Lydia Leonard

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Lydia Leonard born 5 December 1980 is a British actress She was born in Paris to an Irish mother a teacher and AngloFrench 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 2003 and then won a BBC Radio Drama Carleton Hobbs bursary Her radio credits include playing Lady Mabel in a twelvepart adaptation of Anthony Trollopes series of political novels and Goodwill in The Pilgrims Progress On television she had an ongoing role in 50sset detective series Jericho starring Robert Lindsay and appeared in True True Lie 2006 and The Long Walk to Finchley 2008 along with a cameo in Rome 2006 The Stolen Eagle and as a nurse in the BBCs Casualty 1909 Leonard appeared on stage as Polyxena in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hecuba starring Vanessa Redgrave and alongside Francesca Annis in the National Theatres production of Time and the Conways In 2005 Leonard appeared as Caroline Cushing in the original Donmar Theatre and West End productions of FrostNixon In 2008 Leonard played a major role in the BBC remake of The 39 Steps Part of the Christmas scheduling its first showing was the most watched program on BBC One on that day Leonard starred as Cynthia in Joanna Hoggs 2010 feature film Archipelago Description above from the Wikipedia article Lydia Leonard licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia