Allen Leech
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Allen Leech, (born 1981), is an Irish stage, television and film actor, best known for his role as Marcus Agrippa in the television series Rome (2005) (TV series)
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[edit] Biography
Leech attended St. Michaels College, Ballsbridge and graduated in 1999. He then studied Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin. While a first-year Trinity student he secured a plum role in Foresight's powerful production of Conor McPherson's This Lime Tree Bower. This student production propelled him out into professional theatre and helped get him his first agent.Since then, Leech has moved with ease from plays to films. He appeared at the Abbey in Hugh Leonard's Da and was in Tom Murphy's The Morning After Optimism at the Peacock.
His breakthrough film performance was in Cowboys and Angels in which he played Vincent, a gay fashion student followed by the 2004 cross country caper film Man About Dog in which Leech plays Mo, one of three Belfast scallies who get in way above their heads.
Leech didnt rest on his laurels and followed film success with the role of Shane Kirwan in the Ireland's RTE series Love is the Drug, in which he received a Best Actor nomination from the Irish Film and Television Awards. He followed that up with the role of Willy in the series Legend which is the story of three very different Irish families, each one struggling to find their place amid the harsh realities of modern Ireland. He received a Best Suporting Actor nomination from Irish Film and Television Awards for his performance.
In 2007 he appeared in the HBO drama series Rome as Marcus Agrippa , Octavian's top solider.
His partner is the actress Ruth Bradley.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Television
- Rome (TV series)(2007) - Marcus Agrippa
- Legend (2006)- Willy
- Love Is The Drug (2004)- Shane Kirwan
- Battlefield Britain - Culloden: The Jacobites' Last Stand (2004) - Jacobite
- Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor (2003) - British Officer
- The Escapist (2001) - Policeman
[edit] Theatre
- Da,The Abbey Theatre
- The Morning After Optimism,The Abbey Theatre
- Queen and Peacock,
- This Lime Tree Bower, New Theatre
- Streetcar Named Desire, The Gate
[edit] Trivia
- The first time Leech set foot on a professional stage was at the Gate, in their production of A Streetcar Named Desire. "I was the gentleman caller to Frances McDormand's Blanche Dubois. The Coen brothers were walking backstage, and me a naive 16-year-old."
