Career
On stage, she has appeared in many productions as well those with the Bristol Old Vic, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. In 1983 Leigh-Hunt appeared as the Queen of Bavaria in the mini-series Wagner sharing her scenes with Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud as court ministers. She also played Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice (1995), and provided the voices of the farmer"s wife in The Plague Dogs (1982), and Captain Mildred and Mary the Hover Fairy in the 1987 Children"s British Broadcasting Corporation series Charlie Chalk.
More recently she has appeared in such films as Paper Mask (1990), Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997), Billy Elliot (2000), The Martins (2001) and Vanity Fair (2004), and has had much work on television, mainly in guest character parts.