Allen Leech
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Allen is well known for his television work, for which he has won awards in his native Ireland - he has also appeared in ROME for HBO and THE TUDORS for the BBC and Showtime. Recent credits include Mike Leigh's hugely successful ECSTASY at The Hampstead and Duchess Theatres and THE SWEENEY with Ray Winstone, Ben Drew and Hayley Atwell along with ITV's beloved series DOWNTON ABBEY, which won the cast a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in series 3. Other credits include the independent feature, GRAND PIANO with Elijah Wood and John Cusack and Big Talk's improvised 3 hander, IN FEAR with Alice Englert and Iain De Caestecker. He has just completed filming on series V of DOWNTON and can next be seen in THE IMITATION GAME opposite Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley which won The People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival and opened The London Film Festival.
Credits Include:
REWIND (Film)
HEROES AND VILLIANS (TV)
MAN ABOUT DOG (Film)
COWBOYS AND ANGELS (Film)
Download Bio (pdf)
Allen is well known for his television work, for which he has won awards in his native Ireland - he has also appeared in ROME for HBO and THE TUDORS for the BBC and Showtime. Recent credits include Mike Leigh's hugely successful ECSTASY at The Hampstead and Duchess Theatres and THE SWEENEY with Ray Winstone, Ben Drew and Hayley Atwell along with ITV's beloved series DOWNTON ABBEY, which won the cast a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in series 3. Other credits include the independent feature, GRAND PIANO with Elijah Wood and John Cusack and Big Talk's improvised 3 hander, IN FEAR with Alice Englert and Iain De Caestecker. He has just completed filming on series V of DOWNTON and can next be seen in THE IMITATION GAME opposite Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley which won The People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival and opened The London Film Festival.
Credits Include:
REWIND (Film)
HEROES AND VILLIANS (TV)
MAN ABOUT DOG (Film)
COWBOYS AND ANGELS (Film)
Download Bio (pdf)
| FILM | STUDIO | DIRECTOR |
| THE IMITATION GAME | The Weinstein Company | Morten Tyldum |
| GRAND PIANO | Independent | Eugenio Mira |
| IN FEAR | Studio Canal | Jeremy Lovering |
| THE SWEENEY | Vertigo Films | Nick Love |
| FROM TIME TO TIME | Fragile Films | Julian Fellowes |
| MAN ABOUT DOG | Independent | Paddy Breathnach |
| COWBOYS AND ANGELS | Independent | David Gleeson |
| BENEDICT ARNOLD | Independent | Mikhail Soloman |
| THE ESCAPIST | Independent | Gilles McKinnon |
| YESTERDAY'S CHILDREN | CBS Entertainment | Marcus Cole |
| THE DENTIST'S DAUGHTER | Independent | Jackie O'Neill |
| TELEVISION |
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| DOWNTON V | ITV | Various |
| DOWNTON ABBEY IV | ITV | David Evans |
| DOWNTON ABBEY III | ITV | Brian Percival |
| BLACK MIRROR | Channel 4 | Otto Bathurst |
| DOWNTON ABBEY II | ITV | Ashley Pearce |
| DOWNTON ABBEY | ITV | Brian Kelly |
| THE TUDORS IV | BBC/Showtime | Various |
| ATTILA | BBC | Gareth Edwards |
| ROME - Series 2 | BBC/HBO | Various |
| **LEGEND | RTE | Various |
| *LOVE IS A DRUG | RTE | |
| *Nominated for Best Actor in a Television Drama for the Irish Film and Television Awards **Nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Drama for the Irish Film and Television Awards 2007 |
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| THEATRE | ||
| ECSTASY | THE HAMPSTEAD THEATRE | Mike Leigh |
| DA | ABBEY THEATRE | |
| THE MORNING AFTER OPTIMISM | PEACOCK THEATRE | |
| THE QUEEN AND THE PEACOCK | RED KETTLE THEATRE | |
| THIS LIME TREE BOWER | NEW THEATRE | |
| A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE | GATE THEATRE | |
| TRAINING | ||
| B.A. and Masters Degree in Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College, Dublin |