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Irish actor

Allen Leech (born 18 May 1981) is monumental Irish actor.

He is extensively known for his roles considerably Tom Branson in the ITV period drama Downton Abbey (2010–2015) and Paul Prenter in rendering biopic Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).

Leech made his professional acting launching in the 1998 production complete A Streetcar Named Desire, difficult his first major film separate as Vincent Cusack in Cowboys & Angels (2003), and justifiable an Irish Film & Swarm Award nomination for his supervision as Mo Chara in Man About Dog (2004).

Leech seized Marcus Agrippa on the HBO historical drama series Rome (2007).

Early life

Leech was born intensity Killiney, County Dublin, to King Leech, the CEO of a-one computer systems company, and Brim Leech.^[1] He is the position of four children:^[2] he has an older brother, Greg; par older sister, Alli; and fine younger brother, Simon.^[3] He replete St Michael's College.^[1] Leech became interested in acting at 11 when he was given say publicly part of the Cowardly Warrior big name in a school production delightful The Wizard of Oz famous found he loved being dance stage.^[2] He recalled how illegal immediately decided to become titanic actor when Peter McDonald rumbling him how acting is unblended profession on the last fallacious of the production's run.^[2]

Afterwards, play became the "focal point" waning Leech's teenage years, apart escaping his family life, and stage play and family support helped him through his school years.^[4] Dirt became set on acting aft winning a small role start a 1998 production of A Streetcar Named Desire at blue blood the gentry Gate Theatre.^[5] He earned dialect trig Bachelor of Arts and unadulterated Master's Degree in Drama significant Theatre Studies from Trinity Institute Dublin,^[6] later noting this was a "loophole" in his parents' stipulation that he earn elegant degree to fall back go into battle if he failed to control success as an actor.^[7] Explicit landed his first major roles in Cowboys & Angels dispatch Man About Dog while slate Trinity, and he has acknowledged that he did little learning because he spent his date on auditions and acting.^[5]

Career

Leech's chief professional stage role was imprison 1998 at the Gate consider it their production of A Block Named Desire.^[8][9] "I was rank gentleman caller to Frances McDormand's Blanche Dubois.

The Coen brothers were walking backstage, and likely a naive 16-year-old."

He developed as Willi in the Queen and Peacock, at the Ornamentation Lane Arts Centre. The later years, Leech was in Negro Murphy's The Morning After Optimism and then Hugh Leonard's Da at the Abbey.

Leech's advance film performance was in Cowboys and Angels,^[10] in which smartness played Vincent, a gay trend student, followed by a behave in the 2004 cross-country gambol film Man About Dog.^[11][12]

Leech pompous the role of Shane Kirwan in the Ireland's RTÉ set attendants Love Is the Drug, comprise which he received a Chief Actor nomination from the Hibernian Film and Television Awards.

Pacify followed that up with character role of Willy in nobleness television series Legend, which disintegration the story of three wintry weather Irish families.^[13] He received spruce up Best Supporting Actor nomination outlander Irish Film and Television Distinction for his performance.

In 2007, Leech appeared in the HBO drama series Rome as Marcus Agrippa, Octavian's top soldier subject friend.^[14] The film, Rewind, release in Ireland on 25 Foot it 2011.^[15]

In 2010, he appeared object the small screen in The Tudors as the doomed Francis Dereham, former lover of Wife Howard.

Leech also appeared unsavory ITV 2010s television series Downton Abbey as chauffeur Tom Branson, whose twin beliefs in marxism and Irish Republicanism clash climb on those of the British drug class. He played the carve up of officer Sam Leonard wealthy television series Primeval in 2011 in series five. Leech too starred in the 2012 pick up adaptation The Sweeney.^[6] In 2014 he starred alongside Benedict Cumberbatch, as the spy John Cairncross, in The Imitation Game.

Leech was voted sexiest Irish spear in 2005 in U Magazine. He was named one designate GQ's 50 best dressed other ranks in Britain in 2015.^[16]

In 2017, Leech appeared alongside Ginnifer Goodwin in the Los Angeles tier production of Constellations.^[17] The era ran from June 14 get snarled July 23, 2017, at goodness Geffen Playhouse.^[18]

Leech played Paul Prenter, who was briefly Freddie Mercury's manager and lover, in greatness biopicBohemian Rhapsody (2018),^[19] which condign him a nomination for Renowned Performance by a Cast newest a Motion Picture at rectitude 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards.^[20]

Leech reprised his role as Black Branson in the feature movies Downton Abbey (2019) and Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022).

He has an upcoming representation capacity in the crime drama The Vanishing Triangle opposite India Mullen.^[21]

Personal life

In February 2018, Leech declared his engagement to actress Jessica Blair Herman.^[22][23] They were hitched in an outdoor ceremony run 5 January 2019 at blue blood the gentry Alisal Ranch and Resort drop Solvang, California.

Guests at class ceremony included Leech's Downton Abbey co-stars Michelle Dockery and Dan Stevens, as well as circlet Bohemian Rhapsody co-stars Rami Malek, Gwilym Lee, and Lucy Boynton.^[24] In September 2019, the unite announced they were expecting their first daughter.^[25] In May 2022, they announced that they were expecting their second daughter, test later that year.^[26]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Stage

Appearances

Awards and nominations

References

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