Background
She was born in Paris to an Irish mother, a teacher, and Anglo-French father, a financial accountants She lived in France until the age of five.
She was born in Paris to an Irish mother, a teacher, and Anglo-French father, a financial accountants She lived in France until the age of five.
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Leonard played Anne Boleyn in the Royal Shakespeare Company"s production of Hilary Mantel"s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies at London"s Aldwych Theatre from May until October 2014. The Royal Society of Chemistry production transferred to Broadway as Wolf Hall: Parts One and Two at the Winter Garden Theatre, running from March until July 2015.
On television she had an ongoing role in 1950s-set 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 British Broadcasting Corporation"s Casualty 1909.
Leonard appeared on stage as Polyxena in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hecuba starring Vanessa Redgrave, the production played in London"s West End and then at Bachelor of Arts.M in New New York She played Hazel Conway alongside Francesca Annis in the National Theatre"s production of Time and the Conways.
In 2005 she appeared as Caroline Cushing in the original Donmar Theatre and West End productions of Frost/Nixon. In 2010 Leonard played the role of Jackie Onassis in Martin Sherman"s play Onassis at the Novello Theatre in London.
In 2008 Leonard played the female lead in the British Broadcasting Corporation remake of The 39 Steps.
Participant of the Christmas scheduling, its first showing was the most watched programme on British Broadcasting Corporation One on that day. Leonard starred as Cynthia in Joanna Hogg"s 2010 feature film Archipelago. In 2012, Leonard starred in two episodes of Independent Television drama series Whitechapel, as psychiatrist Morgan Lamb, for which she was nominated for Most Outstanding Actress at the Monte Carlo television awards.
In 2013 Leonard played a leading role in the action adventure film Legendary: Tomb of the Dragon alongside Dolph Lundgen and Scott Adkins.
In 2013 Leonard played Alex Language in DreamWorks The Fifth Estate starring Benedict Cumberbatch. In 2015, Leonard played Virginia Woolf in Life in Squares, a British Broadcasting Corporation miniseries on the Bloomsbury Group.
The Colour of Murder, by Julian Symons, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 2003, with Tom Smith, Lydia Leonard, Frances Jeater
A Sting in the Tale - Myrtle, Mahonia and Rue, by Briony Glassco, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, 1//1/2004
Bunyan John - The Pilgrim"s Progress, weekly from 4/1/2004, with Anton Rodgers, Neil Dudgeon, Alec McCowen, Anna Massey, Philip Voss, Lydia Leonard
The Lair of the White Worm, by Stoker Bram, British Broadcasting Corporation World Service 4/12/2004, with Peter Marinker, Ben Crowe, Stephen Critchlow, Lydia Leonard, Richenda Carey
The Seagull, by Anton Chekhov, British Broadcasting Corporation World Service 18/3/2006, with Ben Silverstone, Lydia Leonard, Nicholas Farrell
Our Country"s Good, by Thomas Keneally, adapted by Timberlake Wertenbaker, British Broadcasting Corporation World Service ~15/10/2005, with Nichloas Bolton, Lydia Leonard, Geoffrey Whitehead
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, by Young Toby. R4 afternoon play 3/11/2006.
With Val Murray, Kerry Shale, Lydia Leonard, Elizabeth Bell, Kim Wall.
Arms and the Manitoba, by Great Britain Shaw, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3 21/3/2010, with Rory Kinnear, Lydia Leonard, Hugh Ross, Frances Jeater.