Leanne Best
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: June 15, 1979
Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, UK
Known For
Harm
When a lonely estate agent sells a house to Alice, a charismatic social media influencer, the two strike up an unlikely friendship. But as her obsession with Alice’s seemingly perfect world intensifies, the lines between the online world and reality become dangerously blurred.
Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso, an American football coach, moves to England when he's hired to manage a soccer team—despite having no experience. With cynical players and a doubtful town, will he get them to see the Ted Lasso Way?
Black Mirror
Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.
Line of Duty
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
Home Fires
The story of a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community with the shadow of World War II casting a dark cloud over their lives. As the conflict takes hold and separates the women from their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers, the characters find themselves under increasing and extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world. By banding together as the Great Paxford Women’s Institute, they help maintain the nation’s fabric in its darkest hour, and discover inner resources that will change their lives forever.
Black Dog
Two teenagers from London take an unexpected road trip North as each of them tries to understand how loss and grief have shaped their young minds.
Carnival Row
In a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, a police detective investigates a series of gruesome murders leveled against the fairy population. During his investigation, the detective becomes the prime suspect and must find the real killer to clear his name.
The Good Karma Hospital
The story of British-Asian junior doctor Ruby Walker who arrives at the run-down Good Karma Hospital to join a dedicated team of over-worked medics. Run by a gloriously eccentric Englishwoman, Lydia Fonseca, this under-funded but creatively resourceful cottage hospital is the beating heart of the local community. It’s much more than just a medical outpost - it’s a home.
Cold Feet
Follow the lives and loves of a group of thirtysomethings in a heart-warming comic drama as they try to find true love - or at least keep their relationships on track. In this wry and funny look at a generation which is as confused as it is liberated by the choices it faces, will the chill in their feet put out the passion that burns in their hearts?
Shetland
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
Filmography
as Lesley Williams
as Dionne
as Phoebe
as Jodie
as Katherine
as Sarah
as Dog Lady
as Penny / Sadie
as Lindsay
as Alison
as Jenny
as Kate
as Anna
as Frida Rask
as Georgie Tartt
as Mother
as Madame Moira
as Ava
as Mum
as Julie Ashworth
as Awan
as Eileen
as Rachel
as Penny
as Rose Deeks
as Debbie Smart
as Bowling Alley Waitress
as Abigail Strickland
as Eveline Coombes
as Min Sakul
as Julie Hind
as Jeanie Lee
as Teresa Fenchurch
as Celia Donnelly
as Woman In Black
as Sarah
as Amber Page
as Sandra Rivett
as Sandra Rivett
as Annabel
as Jane Cobden
as PC Jackie Brickford
as Penny
as Krystal
as Lesley
as Zoe Baines
as Tina Reynolds