Stephanie Leonidas is an English actress that started acting in community theatre when she was eight years old. Leonidas is best known for her roles as Helena in the fantasy film MirrorMask and as Irisa on SyFy’s “Defiance.” Most recently, she appeared in season two of Netflix’s “Feel Good” and ITV’s “Endeavour VII.”
Other notable television credits include Crackle’s “Snatch,” CBS’ “American Gothic” and “Daddy’s Girl,” SyFy’s “Killjoys,” PBS’ “Van Der Valk” and BBC’s adaptation of “Dracula,” as well as “Crusade in Jeans,” ITV’s soap opera “Night and Day” and more.
On the stage, Leonidas’ roles have included Adela in a production of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre and Dani in The Sugar Syndrome, staged at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, in 2003. In this latter production, reviewer Lizzie Loveridge said she gave a performance “way beyond her years.” In 2011, she was also in a play for the Transatlantic Festival called Influence, written by Shem Bitterman. Leonidas later teamed up with Dave McKean to work on the film Luna, released in 2014 and also appeared in the 2018 film Tomorrow.
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