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'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. Leech played Marcus Agrippa on the HBO historical drama series Rome (2007). Leech made his professional acting debut in the 1998 production of A Streetcar Named Desire, had his first major film role as Vincent Cusack in Cowboys & Angels (2003), and earned an Irish Film & Television Award nomination for his performance as Mo Chara in Man About Dog (2004). He is best known for his roles as Tom Branson in the ITV period drama Downton Abbey (2010–2015) and Paul Prenter in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).
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