Allan Leigh Lawson was born on 21 July 1945 and is an English actor, director and writer.
10 Facts About Leigh Lawson
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Leigh Lawson initially studied at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts before training further at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Leigh Lawson has worked with the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company and with film directors such as Roman Polanski and Franco Zeffirelli.
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Leigh Lawson has been quoted as saying that the only time in his career when he didn't feel he should be somewhere else doing something else was when he was with the RSC.
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Leigh Lawson played the leading role as Alan Lomax in the television drama series Travelling Man, and guest starred in television series such as The Duchess of Duke Street, Disraeli, Feuer und Schwert - Die Legende von Tristan und Isolde, The Ray Bradbury Theatre and Silent Witness.
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Leigh Lawson guested, with his wife Twiggy, playing themselves in an episode of the comedy series, Absolutely Fabulous.
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In 1999 Leigh Lawson co-wrote and directed the musical If Love Were All, which tells of the friendship between Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward.
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Leigh Lawson met the actress Hayley Mills in 1975, when they performed in London's West End in A Touch of Spring; the following year, they had a son.
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Leigh Lawson was stepfather to Crispian Mills, Mills's son with director Roy Boulting.
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Leigh Lawson adopted Twiggy's daughter, Carly, who took his surname.