Lydia Leonard

Lydia Leonard (born 5 December 1981) is a British stage, film and television actress, best known for her roles in the television series Bring Up the Bodies, Ten Percent, and The Crown. Early life and education Leonard was born in Paris to an Irish mother, a teacher, and Anglo-French father, an accountant; she lived in France until the age of five. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Career Beginning her career in the theatre, 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.