Lydia Leonard was born on 5 December 1981 and is a British actress.
16 Facts About Lydia Leonard
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Lydia Leonard starred in the stage adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies.
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Lydia Leonard was born on 5 December 1981 in Paris, France, to an Irish mother, a teacher, and Anglo-French father, an accountant, and lived in France until the age of five.
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Lydia Leonard attended Bedales School in the village of Steep, Hampshire, before training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol, England.
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Lydia Leonard reprised the role, which earned her a nomination for the 2015 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.
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Lydia Leonard played Hazel Conway alongside Francesca Annis in the National Theatre's production of Time and the Conways.
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In 2010 Lydia Leonard played the role of Jackie Onassis in Martin Sherman's play Onassis at the Novello Theatre in London.
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In 2008 Lydia Leonard played the female lead in the BBC remake of The 39 Steps.
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Lydia Leonard starred as Cynthia in Joanna Hogg's 2010 feature film Archipelago.
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In 2012, Lydia Leonard starred in two episodes of ITV drama series Whitechapel, as psychiatrist Morgan Lamb, for which she was nominated for Most Outstanding Actress at the Monte Carlo television awards.
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In 2013, Lydia Leonard played a leading role in the action adventure film Legendary: Tomb of the Dragon alongside Dolph Lundgen and Scott Adkins.
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In 2015, Lydia Leonard played Virginia Woolf in Life in Squares, a BBC miniseries on the Bloomsbury Group.
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Between 2019 and 2022, Lydia Leonard appeared as Mariana Lawton in Gentleman Jack.
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That same year, Lydia Leonard appeared as Cherie Blair in series 5 of Netflix drama The Crown.
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On playing Blair, Lydia Leonard told the Evening Standard, I have a huge amount of respect for her.
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In March 2023, Lydia Leonard starred as in Women, Beware the Devil at the Almeida Theatre, London.