Rose Leslie

At 37 years old, Rose Leslie has this physical status:

Rose Eleanor Arbuthnot-Leslie (born 9 February 1987) is a Scottish actress.

She rose to fame as Gwen Dawson in the ITV drama series Downton Abbey and as Ygritte in HBO's HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones after winning the Scottish BAFTA for Best Acting Performance for her role in New Town.

Maia Rindell appeared on CBS All Access's legal and political drama The Good Fight, a three-season series.

Early life and ancestry

Leslie was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and she was raised at Lickleyhead Castle, her family's 15th-century ancestral seat, where she lived until the age of 10. Sebastian Arbuthnot-Leslie, her father, is the Chieftain of the Aberdeenshire branch of the Scottish Clan Leslie family. Candida Mary Sibyl "Candy" Leslie, née Weld, is a daughter of King Charles II of Lovat. Leslie is a great-granddaughter of Frederick Weld, New Zealand's sixth prime minister, and her father, Don Guillermo Escandón, was a great-great-granddaughter of Don Guillermo Landa y Escandón, who served as governor of Mexico City. Ambrose Lisle, politician Charles March-Phillipps, and MP James Grimston, 3rd Earl of Verulam, are among Leslie's ancestors. Her family now lives at Old Rayne's 12th-century Wardhill Castle.

She was first educated at Rayne North School in Aberdeenshire. At 10, she went to Ermitage International School in Maisons-Laffitte, France, where her family lived for three years. On her return to the United Kingdom, she was sent to Millfield, a boarding school in Street, Somerset, before spending three years at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She earned a BASSC certificate in stage combat and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in 2008.

Personal life

During her pre-adolescent years, Leslie learned to speak French fluently. She lived in Battersea, London, before heading to North London, where she spent as an actor. "I feel really well at peace in Scotland," she says of missing Aberdeen.

Leslie began dating Kit Harington, who had previously expressed her love interest in Game of Thrones, in 2011. They married on June 23, 2018. Leslie posed for a magazine photo shoot in September 2020, looking remarkably pregnant. They were born in January 2021.

During the 2014 Scottish independence referendum referendum, Leslie supported Scotland's remaining as part of the United Kingdom. She campaigned with the Conservatives in Gordon's local constituency.

She is an endurance athlete who likes rock climbing, cooking, skiing, archery, and tennis.

Firefly International is a charity that supports refugees in the United States. All children, she says, should be able to grow up in peace."

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Career

Leslie worked for BBC Radio narrating The British Slave Trade: Abolition, Parliament and People.

Her leading on screen debut came at age 21 in the television film New Town (2009), for which she won the Scottish BAFTA for Best Acting Performance – New Talent Award.

In September and October 2010, she became the lead in Nell Leyshon's infamous play Bedlam held at Globe Theatre. Based on the Bethlem Royal Hospital, representative of the worst excesses of asylums in the era of lunacy reform, Leslie portrayed May, a beautiful country girl driven mad by lost love. The Daily Telegraph's Charles Spencer praised her performance, commenting, "Leslie proves genuinely poignant." Her break-through role came as Gwen Dawson, a housemaid, in the first series (2010–11) of the ITV television drama Downton Abbey. In 2011, while on Downton Abbey, Leslie briefly appeared in two episodes of the British drama series Case Histories.

In 2012, she was cast in seasons two, three and four of the popular HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones as the wildling Ygritte. The A.V. Club's Rowan Kaiser stated: "As Ygritte, [Rose] is both dangerous and flirtatious, and it's fun to watch." Den of Geek's David Crow exclaimed, "A complicated character [...] Rose Leslie devours the screen." In 2013, Vox.com's Emily VanDerWerff (under The A.V. Club) review for "The Climb" episode, "(In the books) Ygritte is a means to an end... (but) on screen, as embodied by Rose Leslie, she becomes something more," whilst The Atlantic's Christopher Orr summed up her portrayal in the 2014 episode "The Watchers of the Wall" by concluding: "Rose Leslie has been one of a handful of performers on the show who’ve really elevated their characters above what they were in the books."

While on Game of Thrones, Leslie appeared in the 2012 drama film Now Is Good and in episodes of ITV detective television series Vera, Channel 4 conspiracy drama Utopia and BBC One's comedy series Blandings.

From October to November 2014, she appeared in the four-part mini-series The Great Fire. She then starred in the horror film Honeymoon. She has since played DS Emma Lane in the BBC detective drama Luther with positive response and starred in the 2015 action adventure/fantasy film The Last Witch Hunter.

She and David Tennant recorded an audiobook version of Carmilla in 2015. In 2016, she portrayed the character of Athena in Sticky Notes.

In 2016, Leslie was cast in The Good Fight, a CBS All Access legal drama and spin off of The Good Wife. She plays Maia Rindell, a young lawyer who just passed the bar exam and whose family is involved in a financial scam, destroying her reputation. The first episode aired in February 2017. In July 2019, it was revealed that Leslie would not return for the show's fourth season.

In 2017 Leslie provided the voice for the female protagonist "En" in the video game Echo, a game by Copenhagen-based game developer Ultra Ultra.

In October 2019 Leslie was cast as Louise Bourget in Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel Death on The Nile. The film was released on 11 February 2022.

In January 2020, Leslie joined the cast of BBC's and World Productions's drama series Vigil, which premiered in 2021.

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