Rose Leslie

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“I certainly relate to Ygritte in the fact that she is so strong and also ruthless as well. I think that as a show, it is one of the frontrunners for showing dominant female characters and making sure that men answer to women rather than the other way around.”

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ALSO KNOWN FOR

Downton Abbey (2016)

Death On the Nile (2022)

The Good Fight (2019)

The Last Witch Hunter (2015)

Rose Eleanor Arbuthnot-Leslie is a Scottish actress who was born on the 9th of February, 1987 in Aberdeen, Scotland. Leslie was raised at Lickleyhead Castle in Aberdeenshire, her family's 15th-century ancestral seat, where she lived until the age of 10. Her father, Sebastian Arbuthnot-Leslie, is the Chieftain of the Aberdeenshire branch of the Scottish Clan Leslie. Her mother is Candida Mary Sibyl Leslie of Clan Fraser of Lovat, whose maternal great-grandfather was Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat and a descendant of King Charles II. At the age of 10, she went to Ermitage International School in Maisons-Laffitte, France, where her family lived for 3 years. Upon their return to the UK, she was sent to Millfield, a boarding school in Street, Somerset, before spending three years at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She won a BASSC certificate in stage combat and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in 2008.

Leslie’s 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. In September and October 2010, she became the lead in Nell Leyshon's infamous play Bedlam held at Globe Theatre. The Daily Telegraph's Charles Spencer praised her performance, commenting, "Leslie proves genuinely poignant." Her first break-through role came as Gwen Dawson, a housemaid, in the first series of the ITV television drama Downton Abbey. In 2012, she was cast in her larger breakout hit: the popular HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones as the wildling Ygritte. The A.V. Club's Rowan Kaiser stated: "As Ygritte, Rose is both dangerous and flirtatious, and it's fun to watch." Den of Geek's David Crow exclaimed, "A complicated character [...] Rose Leslie devours the screen."

After finishing her run on Game of Thrones in 2014, Leslie appeared in the four-part mini-series The Great Fire. She then starred in the horror film Honeymoon. She has since played DS Emma Lane in the BBC detective drama Luther and starred in the 2015 action adventure/fantasy film The Last Witch Hunter. In 2016, Leslie was cast in The Good Fight, a CBS All Access legal drama and spin off of The Good Wife. She plays Maia Rindell, a new lawyer who just passed the bar and whose family is involved in a financial scam, destroying her reputation. In July 2019, it was revealed that Leslie would not return for the show's fourth season. In January 2020, Leslie joined the cast of BBC's and World Productions' drama series Vigil, which premiered in 2021. In October 2019, Leslie was cast as Louise Bourget in 20th Century Fox's adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel Death on The Nile, directed by Kenneth Branagh. The film was later released on 11 February 2022. Her most recent television role is the female lead in HBO’s science-fiction romantic drama The Time Traveler’s Wife.

Leslie began a relationship with her Game of Thrones co-star Kit Harington and eventually married in June of 2018. In February of 2021, Leslie gave birth to their son.