Richard Leaf

Richard Leaf
Born (1967-01-01) 1 January 1967 (age 57)
England
OccupationActor
Years active1986–2019
SpouseTamsin Greig (m. 1997)
Children3

Richard Leaf (born 1 January 1967) is an English actor.

He has had several small parts in television and stage productions. Leaf met actress Tamsin Greig at a wrap party after Neil Gaiman's 1996 miniseries Neverwhere finished recording.[1] They married in 1997 and they have three children.[2][3] The actor is notable for his role as the Duke of York, nephew of King Edward I in Mel Gibson's Braveheart. He appeared as Hannibal Lecter's father in the 2007 film Hannibal Rising.[4] He also appeared as John Dawlish, an Auror, in the film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,[5] and portrayed Jack, the bartender of the Cloverdilly public house, in the 2006 film Penelope.

Theatre

Year Title Role Company Director Notes
1990 Saint Joan The Inquisitor Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh Charles Nowosielski play by George Bernard Shaw[6]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1995 Braveheart Duke of York
Jack and Sarah Stoned Man
Cutthroat Island Snake the Lookout
1996 Mary Reilly Screaming Girl's Father
1997 The Fifth Element Neighbour
This Is the Sea Pastor Lamthorn
A spasso nel tempo - L'avventura continua Capo esercito inglese
1999 The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc Conscience - Young Man
2000 Best Constable Davies
Maybe Baby Justin Cocker
2001 Enigma Baxter
2003 The Order Sin Eater at St. Peters
2004 Agatha Christie Gunman Episode "A Life in Pictures"
2005 Derailed Night Clerk Ray
2006 Penelope Jack the Bartender
2007 Hannibal Rising Father Lecter
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix John Dawlish
2008 Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth Colonel Regamun
2011 Midsomer Murders Evan Jago "The Sleeper Under the Hill"
2011 Stop the World — Director and writer; short film

References

  1. ^ Mountford, Fiona (12 August 2012). "'Intriguing isn't it?': Tamsin Greig mulls over life's mysteries". The Independent. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Tamsin Greig on Friday Night Dinner series two, going grey and growing up". Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  3. ^ Llewellyn Smith, Julia (2 September 2017). "Tamsin Greig: 'I'm 51, but I feel like an idiot teenager'". The Times. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  4. ^ "BBC Three - Hannibal Rising". BBC. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  5. ^ Gates, Anita (4 August 2017). "Robert Hardy, a Frequent Churchill and a 'Potter' Wizard, Dies at 91". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  6. ^ 'Saints alive', review of Saint Joan by Sue Wilson, The List, Issue 131, 14 - 27 September 1990, p. 52


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