Lydia Leonard
Lydia Leonard
Lydia Leonard is an English stage, film and television actress...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth5 December 1981
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I used to love 'Jeeves And Wooster.' That theme tune was great. I remember writing to them when I was little to get the music so I could learn it on the piano, and they sent me the sheet music.
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I've never done a musical, and I don't think I could do one, but I would love to play Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret.'
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Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.
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Anne Boleyn is certainly the most exciting character I have played on stage.
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As actors, you always have that moment thinking you've been absolutely terrible or a fraud.
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Broadway is the actor's Mt. Everest - but with more flattering frocks.
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'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words.
Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones.
I'd always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was very little. I don't know why.
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I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.
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People ask me if I think Anne Boleyn was a feminist... but she wasn't striking out on behalf of women, and she wasn't particularly keen on them.
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What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.
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Anne Boleyn isn't a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn't a people pleaser. She's ambitious and manipulative, but she's honest. I'm biased, but I don't think a woman who has said 'no' to the King of England for six years would jump into bed with four of his best friends. She was a slick political mind.
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Anne Boleyn was a warrior forced to use the only tools available to a woman in her position at that time. She was bold and ambitious, and had she had a son, history would have been very different.