Leanne Best
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Acting Credits
Biography
Leanne Best (born June 15, 1979) is an English actress. She trained at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and presently lives in southwest London. She is known for her roles as Jane Cobden in the BBC series Ripper Street, Celia Donnelly in Fortitude, and the title role of 'The Woman In Black' in the 2014 film The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death. Best also appeared as Min Sakul in the sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). More recently Best appeared in ITV comedy series Cold Fee...
Known For
Filmography
A Woman of Substance
2026
as Adele Fairley
This City Is Ours
2025
as Lesley Williams
Sebastian
2024
as Dionne
G'wed
2024
as Jodie
Insomnia
2024
as Phoebe
Bolan's Shoes
2023
as Penny / Sadie
Raging Grace
2023
as Katherine
Our Kid
2023
as Sarah
Black Dog
2023
as Dog Lady
A Town Called Malice
2023
as Lindsay
Four Lives
2022
as Kate
Compulsion
2022
as Jenny
The Walk-In
2022
as Alison
Harm
2021
Close to Me
2021
as Anna
Ted Lasso
2020
as Georgie Tartt
Young Wallander
2020
as Frida Rask
Little Joe
2019
as Mother
I Am...
2019
as Ava
Carnival Row
2019
as Madame Moira
The Bay
2019
as Julie Ashworth
Native
2018
as Awan
Babs
2017
as Rose Deeks
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
as Eileen
Cotton Wool
2017
as Rachel
The Good Karma Hospital
2017
as Debbie Smart
Tin Star
2017
as Penny
The Infiltrator
2016
as Bowling Alley Waitress
Undercover
2016
as Abigail Strickland
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
2016
as Eveline Coombes
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
as Min Sakul
Fortitude
2015
as Celia Donnelly
The Outcast
2015
as Jeanie Lee
Home Fires
2015
as Teresa Fenchurch
From Darkness
2015
as Julie Hind
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
2014
as Woman In Black
Salting the Battlefield
2014
as Amber Page
The Driver
2014
as Sarah
Lucan
2013
as Sandra Rivett
Shetland
2013
as Annabel
Lucan
2013
as Sandra Rivett
Line of Duty
2012
as PC Jackie Brickford
Ripper Street
2012
as Jane Cobden
Black Mirror
2011
as Penny
The Be All and End All
2010
as Krystal
Moving On
2009
as Lesley
New Street Law
2006
as Claudia Hartson
Heatwave
2005
as Loz Garrett
New Tricks
2004
as Zoe Baines
Cold Feet
1998
as Tina Reynolds