#Leech life professional#
#Leech life series#

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#Leech life series#

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Iníon an Fhiaclóra ( The Dentist's Daughter)Įpisode: 'A Clash of Kings: The Battle of the Boyne'īest Actor in a Supporting Role in Television Leech is also known to be very good friends with Robert James-Collier, one of his Downton Abbey co-stars. In September 2019, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child. Guests at the ceremony included Leech's Downton Abbey costars, as well as his Bohemian Rhapsody costars Rami Malek, Gwilym Lee, and Lucy Boynton. They were married in an outdoor ceremony on 5 January 2019 at the Alisal Ranch and Resort in Solvang, California. In February 2018, Leech announced his engagement to actress Jessica Blair Herman. In 2019, Leech appeared again as Tom Branson in the feature film Downton Abbey. Leech played Paul Prenter, who was briefly Freddie Mercury's manager and male lover, in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), which earned him a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards. The play ran from June 14 to July 23, 2017, at the Geffen Playhouse. In 2017, Leech appeared alongside Ginnifer Goodwin in the Los Angeles stage production of Constellations. He was named one of GQ's 50 best dressed men in Britain in 2015. Leech was voted sexiest Irish male in 2005 in U Magazine. In 2014 he starred alongside Benedict Cumberbatch, as the spy John Cairncross, in The Imitation Game. Leech also starred in the 2012 film adaptation The Sweeney. He played the role of officer Sam Leonard in television series Primeval in 2011 in series five. Leech also appeared in ITV 2010s television series Downton Abbey as chauffeur Tom Branson, whose twin beliefs in socialism and Irish Republicanism clash with those of the British upper class. In 2010, he appeared on the small screen in The Tudors as the doomed Francis Dereham, former lover of Catherine Howard.

The film, Rewind, opened in Ireland on 25 March 2011. In 2007, Leech appeared in the HBO drama series Rome as Marcus Agrippa, Octavian's top soldier and friend. He received a Best Supporting Actor nomination from Irish Film and Television Awards for his performance. He followed that up with the role of Willy in the television series Legend, which is the story of three different Irish families. Leech played the role of Shane Kirwan in the Ireland's RTÉ series Love Is the Drug, in which he received a Best Actor nomination from the Irish Film and Television Awards. Leech's breakthrough film performance was in Cowboys and Angels, in which he played Vincent, a gay fashion student, followed by a role in the 2004 cross-country caper film Man About Dog. The following years, Leech was in Tom Murphy's The Morning After Optimism and then Hugh Leonard's Da at the Abbey. He appeared as Willi in the Queen and Peacock, at the Garter Lane Arts Centre. The Coen brothers were walking backstage, and me a naive 16-year-old.' 'I was the gentleman caller to Frances McDormand's Blanche Dubois.

#Leech life professional#

Leech's first professional stage role was in 1998 at the Gate in their production of A Streetcar Named Desire. He landed his first major roles in Cowboys & Angels and Man About Dog while at Trinity, and he has admitted that he did little schoolwork because he spent his time on auditions and acting. He earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master's Degree in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin, later noting this was a 'loophole' in his parents' stipulation that he earn a degree to fall back on if he failed to have success as an actor. He became set on acting after winning a small role in a 1998 production of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Gate Theatre. Īfterwards, drama became the 'focal point' of Leech's teenage years, apart from his family life, and drama and family support helped him through his school years. He recalled how he immediately decided to become an actor when Peter McDonald told him how acting is a profession on the last night of the production's run. Leech became interested in acting at 11 when he was given the part of the Cowardly Lion in a school production of The Wizard of Oz and found he loved being on stage. He is the third of four children he has an older brother, Greg, an older sister, Alli, and a younger brother, Simon. Leech was born in Killiney, County Dublin, to David Leech, the CEO of a computer systems company, and Kay Leech.