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Leslie is fluent in [[French language|French]], having lived in France for three years. While working as an actress, she resided in [[Battersea|Battersea, London]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title = Cover story: Wilding Rose turns up the heat|url = http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2729985/From-Game-Thrones-Downton-characters-Rose-Leslie-plays-standout-trademark-titian-hair-And-latest-role-ITV-s-new-blockbuster-The-Great-Fire-hottest-date.html|website = Mail Online|access-date = 2016-02-15}}</ref> until relocating to [[North London]].<ref name=Nor/> She often professes to missing her hometown, saying: "Aberdeen... in the middle of the countryside, all trees and nature.<ref name=Nor/> [...] My parents would send us out for the day, we had lots of freedom. Going back is still an escape!<ref>Game of Thrones star Rose Leslie confesses her love for Luther co-star Idris Elba as she dazzles in bold prints for fashion-forward shoot [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3343098/Rose-Leslie-confesses-love-Idris-Elba-prepares-star-Luther.html]</ref> [...] I feel very much at peace in Scotland."<ref name=Nor>{{cite web|url=http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/film/interview-rose-leslie-from-wildling-warrior-to-london-detective-1-3974569|title=Interview: Rose Leslie, from Wildling warrior to London detective|publisher=The Scotsman|access-date=2016-02-15}}</ref>
Leslie is fluent in [[French language|French]], having lived in France for three years. While working as an actress, she resided in [[Battersea|Battersea, London]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title = Cover story: Wilding Rose turns up the heat|url = http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2729985/From-Game-Thrones-Downton-characters-Rose-Leslie-plays-standout-trademark-titian-hair-And-latest-role-ITV-s-new-blockbuster-The-Great-Fire-hottest-date.html|website = Mail Online|access-date = 2016-02-15}}</ref> until relocating to [[North London]].<ref name=Nor/> She often professes to missing her hometown, saying: "Aberdeen... in the middle of the countryside, all trees and nature.<ref name=Nor/> [...] My parents would send us out for the day, we had lots of freedom. Going back is still an escape!<ref>Game of Thrones star Rose Leslie confesses her love for Luther co-star Idris Elba as she dazzles in bold prints for fashion-forward shoot [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3343098/Rose-Leslie-confesses-love-Idris-Elba-prepares-star-Luther.html]</ref> [...] I feel very much at peace in Scotland."<ref name=Nor>{{cite web|url=http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/film/interview-rose-leslie-from-wildling-warrior-to-london-detective-1-3974569|title=Interview: Rose Leslie, from Wildling warrior to London detective|publisher=The Scotsman|access-date=2016-02-15}}</ref>


She is an avid [[Running|runner]] and enjoys [[rock climbing]], [[cooking]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://katewaterhouse.com/date-kate-rose-leslie/|title=DATE WITH KATE: ROSE LESLIE|publisher=Kate Waterhouse|access-date=2016-02-16}}</ref> [[skiing]], [[archery]] and [[tennis]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> Leslie is currently in a relationship with her Game of Thrones co-star [[Kit Harington]].<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3521726/Kit-Harington-girlfriend-Rose-Leslie-step-red-carpet-appearance-Olivier-Awards.html]</ref>
She is an avid [[Running|runner]] and enjoys [[rock climbing]], [[cooking]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://katewaterhouse.com/date-kate-rose-leslie/|title=DATE WITH KATE: ROSE LESLIE|publisher=Kate Waterhouse|access-date=2016-02-16}}</ref> [[skiing]], [[archery]] and [[tennis]].


==Filmography==
==Filmography==

Revision as of 22:45, 30 April 2016

Rose Leslie
Leslie at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International
Born
Rose Eleanor Arbuthnot-Leslie

(1987-02-09) 9 February 1987 (age 37)
Aberdeen, Scotland
OccupationActress
Years active2005–present
AgentHamilton Hodell[1]
Height5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)[1]

Rose Eleanor Arbuthnot-Leslie[3] (born 9 February 1987),[3] known professionally as Rose Leslie, is a Scottish actress. After winning a Scottish BAFTA for Best Acting Performance for her role in New Town, she rose to fame as Ygritte in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones and Gwen Dawson in the ITV drama series Downton Abbey.

Early life

Leslie was born in Aberdeen[4] to parents of Scottish nobility. She was raised at Lickleyhead Castle in Aberdeenshire, her family's 15th century ancestral seat.[5]

Her father, Sebastian Arbuthnot-Leslie, is the Aberdeenshire Chieftain of Clan Leslie[6] and her mother is Candida Mary Sibyl "Candy" Leslie (née Weld) of Clan Fraser, great-granddaughter of Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat (a descendant of Charles II). Her family presently owns the 12th century Warthill Castle in Scotland's Old Rayne.[7][8][9]

Leslie is the third of five children and describes growing up together as "important. We are a big, close family."[10] Jokingly, she recalls having middle child syndrome and being the family's only redhead and "the sole ‘ginger’ in a 40-mile radius at school" as the predispositions in her desire to become an actress where "different was O.K."[10] She was educated at Rayne North School and then Millfield School in Street, Somerset,[11] before spending three years at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.[12]

Career

Leslie was heavily involved in plays at LAMDA, starring in stage productions such as Uncle Vanya, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Country Wife, as well as a stint on BBC Radio narrating The British Slave Trade: Abolition, Parliament and People. Her experiences allowed her to receive a BASSC certificate in stage combat and master diction in various dialects, which would prove useful in later roles. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts hons in 2008.[12]

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.[13][14]

In September and October 2010, she became the lead in Nell Leyshon's infamous play Bedlam held at Globe Theatre.[15] 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.[16][17] The Daily Telegraph's Charles Spencer praised her performance, commenting, "Leslie proves genuinely poignant."[18] Her break-through role came as Gwen Dawson, a housemaid, in the first series (2010–11) of the ITV television drama Downton Abbey.[19]

In 2011, while on Downton Abbey, Leslie briefly appeared in two episodes of the British drama series Case Histories.[20][21]

Leslie as Game of Thrones' Ygritte

In 2012, she was cast in the popular HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones.[22] For her role as wildling Ygritte in seasons two, three and four, Leslie was met with major acclaim. The A.V. Club's Rowan Kaiser stated: "As Ygritte, [Rose] is both dangerous and flirtatious, and it’s fun to watch."[23] Den of Geek's David Crow exclaimed, "A complicated character [...] Rose Leslie devours the screen."[24] In 2013, Vox.com's Todd 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,"[25] whilst The Atlantic's Christopher Orr summed her portrayal in 2014's 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."[26]

While on Game of Thrones, she appeared in the 2012 drama film Now Is Good alongside Dakota Fanning[27] and in episodes of ITV detective television series Vera,[28] Channel 4 conspiracy drama Utopia[29] and BBC One's comedy series Blandings.[30]

From October to November 2014, she top-billed in the four-part mini-series The Great Fire.[31] She then starred in the horror film Honeymoon with Harry Treadaway.[32]

She has since played DS Emma Lane in the BBC detective drama Luther with Idris Elba with positive response[33] and starred alongside Vin Diesel and Elijah Wood in the 2015 action adventure/fantasy film The Last Witch Hunter.[34][35] In 2016, she will portray the character of Athena in Sticky Notes with Goodfellas's Ray Liotta.[36]

Personal life

Leslie is fluent in French, having lived in France for three years. While working as an actress, she resided in Battersea, London[10] until relocating to North London.[37] She often professes to missing her hometown, saying: "Aberdeen... in the middle of the countryside, all trees and nature.[37] [...] My parents would send us out for the day, we had lots of freedom. Going back is still an escape![38] [...] I feel very much at peace in Scotland."[37]

She is an avid runner and enjoys rock climbing, cooking,[39] skiing, archery and tennis.

Filmography

Television

Leslie in 2013 for Game of Thrones Comic-Con panel
Leslie in 2013 for Game of Thrones Comic-Con panel
Year Title Role Notes
2008 Banged Up Abroad Kim Episode: "Lima"
2010, 2015 Downton Abbey Gwen Dawson Series 1 – main role
2011 Case Histories Laura Wyre
2012 Vera Lena Holgate Episode: "The Ghost Position"
2012–2014 Game of Thrones Ygritte Season 2 – recurring role
(debuts in "The Old Gods and the New")
Season 3 – main role
Season 4 – main role
2014 Blandings Niagra Donaldson Episode: "Custody of the Pumpkin"
Utopia Young Milner Episode #2.1
The Great Fire Sarah Farriner miniseries
2015 Luther DS Emma Lane Series 4 – main role

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2009 New Town Rhian
2012 Now Is Good Fiona
2014 Honeymoon Bea
2015 The Last Witch Hunter Chloe
2016 Sticky Notes Athena
Morgan Amy Filming

Theatre

Year Title Venue / Touring Theatre Director Ref
2005
–
2015
 Mixed Up North Touring
Wilton's Music Hall
Octagon Theatre 		Max Stafford-Clark
[12]
Romeo and Juliet Love and Madness Company John Link
Can-Can LAMDA Anne Durham
Pericles Rodney Cottier
The Learned Ladies Jenny Lipman
The Caucasian Chalk Circle Touring
Out of Joint Theatre Company
MacOwan Theatre 		John Baxter
Breaking Barriers in Burnley Out of Joint Theatre Company Robin Soans & Clark
Uncle Vanya LAMDA Colin Cook
Antigone Mark Bell
The Children's Monologues Royal Court Theatre Danny Boyle
Bedlam Globe Theatre Nell Leyshon

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
2009 British Academy Scotland New Talent Awards Best Acting Performance New Town Won [13]
2013 Screen Actors Guild Award Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
(shared with the cast) 		Game of Thrones Nominated [40]

Ancestry

Leslie's ancestors include French Hugenot Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps De Lisle, politician Charles March-Phillipps and MOP James Grimston, 3rd Earl of Verulam. Her great-great grandfather was Guillermo de Landa y Escandón, who served as Mayor of Mexico City.[41] She is cousin-in-law to the British historian William Dalrymple (FRAS).[42]

Family of Rose Leslie
8. E. L. Stainton
4. Captain Anthony Thomas Stainton
2. Sebastian Arbuthnot-Leslie
10. William Arbuthnot-Leslie
5. Mary Luz Arbuthnot-Leslie
44. José María Landa Martínez
22. Guillermo de Landa y Escandon, Governor of Mexico City
44. María Francisca Escandón Garmendia
11. Maria de la Luz de Landa y Osio
23. Sofía de Ossio y del Barrio
1. Rose Leslie
24. Sir Frederick Aloysius Weld
12. Humphrey Frederick Weld
25. Filumena March Philipps
6. Lt-Col Humphrey Joseph Giles Weld
26. Edmond de Poher de la Poer, 1st Count de la Poer
13. Elinor Mary Trifine de Poher de la Poer
27. Hon. Mary Olivia Augusta Monsell
3. Candida Mary Weld
28. Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat
14. Hon Alastair Thomas Joseph Fraser
29. Alice Mary Weld-Blundell
7. Frances Mary Fraser
30. James Grimston, 3rd Earl of Verulam
15. Lady Sibyl Grimston
31. Margaret Frances Graham

References

  1. ^ a b "Rose Leslie - Hamilton Hodell - CV". www.hamiltonhodell.co.uk. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  2. ^ "Game of Thrones Stars in London". The Resident. 27 February 2015. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Rose Leslie". TVGuide.com. Archived from the original on 13 September 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2016. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ "Downton Abbey web-site". Downtonabbey.com. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
  5. ^ McDonald, Toby (12 October 2011). "Downton Abbey maid Rose Leslie grew up a Scottish castle Lady". Daily Record. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
  6. ^ Smith, Emma. "Aberdeenshire castle where Game of Thrones star Rose Leslie was born is put on the market for £1.3 million". dailyrecord. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  7. ^ Leslie, Sebastian. "Warthill Castle". About Scotland. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
  8. ^ "Clan Leslie, Aberdeenshire Council". Aberdeenshire Council. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
  9. ^ "Obituary Jillian Ada Burcher". Newsletter of Clan Leslie Society of Australia and New Zealand, CLANZ. December 2009. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
  10. ^ a b c "Cover story: Wilding Rose turns up the heat". Mail Online. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  11. ^ "Old Millfieldian Society". Omsociety.com. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
  12. ^ a b c "Rose Leslie" (PDF). London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. 17 July 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  13. ^ a b "New Talent Awards in 2009". The BAFTA site: Scotland. British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
  14. ^ "Awards and Nominations". LAMDA. The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
  15. ^ "Review of Nell Leyshon's Bedlam at the Shakespeare Globe Theatre in London 2010". www.londontheatre.co.uk. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  16. ^ "Rose Leslie CV". Hamilton Hodell. Retrieved 7 December 2011.
  17. ^ "Charliebrown" (20 July 2010). "Downton Abbey – Rose Leslie". Enchanted Serenity of Period Films. Ottawa, Canada: Blogger.com.
  18. ^ "Bedlam, Globe Theatre, review". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  19. ^ "Downton Abbey web-site". Downtonabbey.com. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
  20. ^ "Case Histories, Series 1, Case Histories - Part 1". BBC. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  21. ^ "Cast and Credits". PBS. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  22. ^ "Rose Leslie: 'It was hard to say goodbye to Ygritte'". The Guardian. 11 January 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  23. ^ Kaiser, Rowan. "GAME OF THRONES RECAP 6: THE OLD GODS AND THE NEW". Press Play. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  24. ^ "Game Of Thrones: The Watchers On The Wall Review". Den of Geek. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  25. ^ "Game Of Thrones (experts): "The Climb" (for experts)". www.avclub.com. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  26. ^ Sullivan, Spencer Kornhaber, Christopher Orr, and Amy. "The One Disappointing Thing About That Huge Game of Thrones Battle". The Atlantic. Retrieved 15 February 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  27. ^ "Now Is Good (2012) - Cast, Crew & Credits". Moviefone. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  28. ^ "'Vera,' Episode 5: 'The Ghost Position'". KCET. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  29. ^ Jeffery, Morgan (16 October 2013). "'Game of Thrones' star Rose Leslie joins 'Utopia' series 2". Digital Spy. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  30. ^ "Blandings, Series 2, Custody of the Pumpkin". BBC. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  31. ^ "ITV casting announcement of The Great Fire". ITV Press Centre. 4 March 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  32. ^ "Rose Leslie's 'Honeymoon' turns horrible in new clip". Entertainment Weekly. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  33. ^ "Luther series 4 episode 2 review". Den of Geek. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  34. ^ "Vin Diesel's Bushy 'The Last Witch Hunter' Beard". Bloody Disgusting. 4 March 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  35. ^ Mr. Disgusting (6 August 2015). "New 'The Last Witch Hunter' Trailer Pits Vin Diesel In the Middle of a Witch War!". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  36. ^ Lesnick, Silas (4 June 2014). "Sticky Notes Adds Rose Leslie, Justin Bartha and Gina Rodriguez". ComingSoon.net. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  37. ^ a b c "Interview: Rose Leslie, from Wildling warrior to London detective". The Scotsman. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  38. ^ Game of Thrones star Rose Leslie confesses her love for Luther co-star Idris Elba as she dazzles in bold prints for fashion-forward shoot [1]
  39. ^ "DATE WITH KATE: ROSE LESLIE". Kate Waterhouse. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  40. ^ "SAG Awards Nominations: '12 Years A Slave' and 'Breaking Bad' Lead Way". Deadline.com. 11 December 2013. Retrieved 11 December 2013. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  41. ^ Obituary for Mary Luz Arbuthnot-Leslie
  42. ^ Margaret Atwood. "Margaret Atwood on Game of Thrones: 'Real people, every murderous one'". the Guardian. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
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