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Lydia Leonard

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Birthplace
Paris, France
Date of birth
5 December, 1981
Date of death
Ethnicity
* father – Anglo-French * mother – Irish
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06/07/2015 – Leonard – 69th Annual Tony Awards – Arrivals – Radio City Music Hall – New York City, NY, USA – Photo Credit: Laurence Agron / PRPhotos.com

Place of Birth: Paris, France

Date of Birth: 5 December, 1981

Ethnicity: * father – Anglo-French * mother – Irish

Lydia Leonard is a British actress. Her roles include the films True True Lie , Archipelago , Legendary , The Fifth Estate (2013), Last Christmas , and Northern Comfort ; the shows Jericho , The Line of Beauty , Casualty 1907 , Casualty 1909 , Whitechapel , Lucan , Life in Squares , River , Apple Tree Yard , Quacks , Absentia , Gentleman Jack , Flesh and Blood , Red Election , Ten Percent , The Crown , We Are Lady Parts , Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light , and Down Cemetery Road ; and the made-for-tv movies The Long Walk to Finchley and The 39 Steps (2008); as well as multiple video games in the Star Wars franchise.

She was born in Paris, and is said to be the daughter of an Irish mother and an Anglo-French father. She lived in France until the age of five, then moving to England.