Lydia Leonard
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Lydia Leonard (born 5 December 1980) is a British actress. She was born in Paris to an Irish mother, a teacher, and Anglo-French father, a financial accountant; she lived in France until the age of five. Originally, Leonard wanted to be a barrister, which she considers to be a profession very similar to acting onstage. Her first acting role was in Nativity spectacle in school, where she played King Herod. Leonard went from Bedales School to graduate from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 20...
Known For
Filmography
Pretty Lethal
2026
as Miss Thorna
A Woman of Substance
2026
as Olivia Wainwright
Secret Service
2026
as Amanda Walker
Down Cemetery Road
2025
as Defence Minister Talia Ross
A Very Royal Scandal
2024
as Esme Wren
Northern Comfort
2023
as Sarah
Ten Percent
2022
as Rebecca Fox
All These Men That I've Done
2021
as Unnamed
Red Election
2021
as Beatrice Ogilvy
We Are Lady Parts
2021
as Clarice
Hilary Mantel: Return to Wolf Hall
2020
as Self - Reader (voice)
Flesh and Blood
2020
as Natalie
McDonald & Dodds
2020
as Lucy Holgate
Last Christmas
2019
as Marta Andrich
Gentleman Jack
2019
as Mariana Lawton
Quacks
2017
as Caroline Lessing
Apple Tree Yard
2017
as Bonnard
Absentia
2017
as Laurie Colson
The Prevailing Winds
2016
as The Hiker
The Crown
2016
as Cherie Blair
Life in Squares
2015
as Young Virginia Woolf
Wolf Hall
2015
as Jane Rochford
River
2015
as Marianne King
Legendary: Tomb of the Dragon
2013
as Katie
Born of War
2013
as Olivia
Playdate
2013
The Fifth Estate
2013
as Alex Lang
Lucan
2013
as Melissa
Archipelago
2011
as Cynthia
The 39 Steps
2008
as Victoria Sinclair
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
2008
as Joyce
Ashes to Ashes
2008
as Sara Templeton
True True Lie
2006
as Dana
The Line of Beauty
2006
as Penny Kent
Rome
2005
as Julia
Jericho
2005
as Angela
Foyle's War
2002
as Marion Greenwood
Spooks
2002
as Martha Ford
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Phoebe Frears