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Lydia Leonard (born 5 December 1981) is an English stage, film and television actress. ==Life and career== She was born in Paris to an Irish mother, a teacher, and Anglo-French father, a financial accountant; she lived in France until the age of five. 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 RSC production transferred to Broadway as "Wolf Hall: Parts One and Two" at the Winter Garden Theatre, running from March until July 2015. Leonard reprised the role, which earned her a nomination for the 2015 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.〔 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 BBC'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 B.A.M in New York. She played Hazel Conway alongside Francesca Annis in the National Theatre's production of ''Time and the Conways''. In 2005 Leonard 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 a major role in the BBC re-make of ''The 39 Steps''. Part of the Christmas scheduling, its first showing was the most watched programme on BBC One on that day. Leonard starred as Cynthia in Joanna Hogg's 2010 feature film ''Archipelago''. In 2012, 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. 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 Lang in DreamWorks ''The Fifth Estate'' starring Benedict Cumberbatch. In 2015, Leonard played Virginia Woolf in ''Life in Squares'', a BBC miniseries on the Bloomsbury Group. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lydia Leonard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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