Leanne Best

Born: 1979-06-15

Leanne Best (born June 15, 1979) is an English actress. She trained at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and presently lives in southwest London. She is known for her roles as Jane Cobden in the BBC series Ripper Street, Celia Donnelly in Fortitude, and the title role of 'The Woman In Black' in the 2014 film The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death. Best also appeared as Min Sakul in the sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). More recently Best appeared in ITV comedy series Cold Feet in September 2016 as Tina Reynolds. She was also in Line of Duty series 3.


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Star Wars: The Force Awakens

as Min Sakul
Released: 2015-12-15

Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from...

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Raging Grace

as Katherine
Released: 2023-12-01

An undocumented Filipina immigrant lands a job as a careworker for a seemingly terminal old man,...

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The Infiltrator

as Bowling Alley Waitress
Released: 2016-07-13

A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.

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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

as Eileen
Released: 2017-11-17

Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric...

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The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death

as Woman In Black
Released: 2014-12-30

40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII...

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Sebastian

as Dionne
Released: 2024-08-02

Max is a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success...

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Salting the Battlefield

as Amber Page
Released: 2014-03-27

David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue...

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Little Joe

as Mother
Released: 2019-11-01

Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her...

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Bolan's Shoes

as Penny / Sadie
Released: 2023-09-15

A love letter to 70s glam rock told through the eyes of Jimmy and Penny, two children who grew...

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Babs

as Rose Deeks
Released: 2017-05-07

This is the story of Dame Barbara Windsor, the Cockney kid with a dazzling smile and talent to...

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Black Dog

as Dog Lady (voice)
Released: 2023-10-14

Two teenagers from London take an unexpected road trip North as each of them tries to understand...

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Native

as Awan
Released: 2018-02-23

Two scientists are selected to travel across the universe to the source of a distant...

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Cotton Wool

as Rachel
Released: 2017-10-10

A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to...

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The Be All and End All

as Krystal
Released: 2010-12-03

At fifteen Robbie has only one thing on his mind - losing his virginity. The problem is that...

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Our Kid

as Sarah
Released: 2023-10-29

Twelve-year-old Laura's goal in life is to one day play football professionally. Laura has many...

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Lucan

as Sandra Rivett
Released: 2013-12-11

Drama about infamous aristocrat Lord Lucan, who mysteriously disappeared in 1974 after being...

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Harm

as uncredited
Released: 2021-04-13

When a lonely estate agent sells a house to Alice, a charismatic social media influencer, the...

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Black Mirror

as Penny
First aired: 2011-12-04

Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before...

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New Tricks

as Zoe Baines
First aired: 2004-01-01

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and...

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Ted Lasso

as Georgie Tartt
First aired: 2020-08-14

Ted Lasso, an American football coach, moves to England when he’s hired to manage a soccer...

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Line of Duty

as PC Jackie Brickford
First aired: 2012-06-26

A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.

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Shetland

as Annabel
First aired: 2013-03-10

Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy...

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Ripper Street

as Jane Cobden
First aired: 2012-12-30

A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The...

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Moving On

as Lesley
First aired: 2009-05-18

Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone...

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Carnival Row

as Madame Moira
First aired: 2019-08-29

In a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, a police detective...

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Tin Star

as Penny
First aired: 2017-09-07

The story of Jim Worth, an expat British police officer starting a new life with his family as...

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Cold Feet

as Tina Reynolds
First aired: 1998-11-15

Follow the lives and loves of a group of thirtysomethings in a heart-warming comic drama as they...

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Fortitude

as Celia Donnelly
First aired: 2015-01-29

Fortitude is a place like nowhere else. Although surrounded by the savage beauty of the Arctic...

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Home Fires

as Teresa Fenchurch
First aired: 2015-05-03

The story of a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community with the shadow of...

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The Good Karma Hospital

as Debbie Smart
First aired: 2017-02-05

The story of British-Asian junior doctor Ruby Walker who arrives at the run-down Good Karma...

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A Town Called Malice

as Lindsay
First aired: 2023-03-16

Set amongst the beach clubs and palm trees of the Costa del Sol in the early 80s, A Town Called...

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Lucan

as Sandra Rivett
First aired: 2013-12-11

Belgravia, London, November 7th, 1974. Sandra Rivett, nanny of the aristocratic Lucan family, is...

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I Am...

as Ava
First aired: 2019-07-23

Each hour-long film follows a different woman as they experience “moments that are emotionally...

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Young Wallander

as Frida Rask
First aired: 2020-09-03

An incendiary hate crime stirs civil unrest, fast-tracking rookie cop Kurt Wallander to...

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Undercover

as Abigail Strickland
First aired: 2016-04-03

Undercover follows Maya, the first black Director Of Public Prosecutions. Just as she is about...

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Insomnia

as Phoebe
First aired: 2024-05-23

Emma a successful woman fears of losing her mind after suffering from sleep deprivation two...

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Four Lives

as Kate
First aired: 2022-01-03

The true story of the courageous families of four young gay men who lost their lives to killer...

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The Walk-In

as Alison
First aired: 2022-10-03

Forced to flee the UK and go into hiding in the 1990’s when he became a mole from within the...

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Close to Me

as Anna
First aired: 2021-09-12

Jo Harding is a woman who has a perfect life with her partner until a fall erases an entire year...

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The Outcast

as Jeanie Lee
First aired: 2015-07-12

Set in post-war Britain, ten year-old Lewis Aldridge is grief-stricken as he struggles to cope...

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Compulsion

as Jenny
First aired: 2022-04-12

After surviving a tragedy, paramedic Jenny Challoner struggles with PTSD. Concealing her...

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From Darkness

as Julie Hind
First aired: 2015-10-04

The story of Claire Church, a former police officer who moves away to the remote Western Isles...

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The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells

as Eveline Coombes
First aired: 2016-01-28

The Nightmare Worlds of H. G. Wells is a 2016 horror-fantasy television miniseries, based on...

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G'wed

as Jodie
First aired: 2024-02-05

Comedy about working class Liverpudlian teenagers, tackling big issues like grief, sex,...

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