Rose Leslie

Leslie was born in Aberdeen, Scotland,{{cite web|url=http://www.downtonabbey.com/page/3/ |title=Downton Abbey web-site |publisher=Downtonabbey.com |access-date=17 May 2012}} and raised at Lickleyhead Castle in Aberdeenshire, her family's 15th-century ancestral seat, where she lived until the age of 10.{{cite web |url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/downton-abbey-maid-rose-leslie-1084067|title=Downton Abbey maid Rose Leslie grew up a Scottish castle Lady|last=McDonald|first=Toby|date=12 October 2011|work=Daily Record|access-date=11 December 2012}} Her father, Sebastian Arbuthnot-Leslie, is the Chieftain of the Aberdeenshire branch of the Scottish Clan Leslie. Her mother is Candida Mary Sibyl "Candy" Leslie (née Weld) of Clan Fraser of Lovat, whose maternal great-grandfather was Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat and a descendant of King Charles II.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/aberdeenshire-castle-game-thrones-star-1884192|title=Aberdeenshire castle where Game of Thrones star Rose Leslie was born is put on the market for £1.3 million|last=Smith|first=Emma|website=Daily Record|date=12 May 2013|access-date=20 February 2016}} Through her mother, Leslie is a great-great-granddaughter of Frederick Weld, the sixth prime minister of New Zealand and, through her father, she is a great-great-granddaughter of Don Guillermo Landa y Escandón, who served as governor of Mexico City.{{cite web|url=https://www.antena3.com/objetivotv/actualidad/internacional/juego-tronos-descubrimos-origenes-aristocraticos-rose-leslie-boda-kit-harington_201806235b2e4a910cf2a31495452dc5.html|title='Juego de Tronos': Descubrimos los orígenes aristocráticos de Rose Leslie ante su boda con Kit Harington|language=Spanish|publisher=Antena 3|date=23 June 2018}} Leslie's ancestors include Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps De Lisle, politician Charles March-Phillipps and MP James Grimston, 3rd Earl of Verulam. Her family currently lives at the 12th-century Wardhill Castle in Old Rayne.{{cite web|url=http://www.aboutscotland.com/aberdeen/warthill.html|title=Warthill Castle|last=Leslie|first=Sebastian|work=About Scotland|access-date=11 December 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121124083131/http://aboutscotland.com/aberdeen/warthill.html|archive-date=24 November 2012}}{{cite web|url=https://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/visit/clans/leslie.asp|title=Clan Leslie, Aberdeenshire Council|work=Aberdeenshire Council|access-date=11 December 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004220251/https://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/visit/clans/leslie.asp|archive-date=4 October 2013}}{{cite web |url=http://clanleslie.org/newsletter/Dec%202009.html|title=Obituary Jillian Ada Burcher|date=December 2009|work=Newsletter of Clan Leslie Society of Australia and New Zealand, CLANZ|access-date=11 December 2012}}

She was first educated at Rayne North School in Aberdeenshire. At 10, she went to Ermitage International School in Maisons-Laffitte, France, where her family lived for 3 years.{{cite web |url=https://madame.lefigaro.fr/celebrites/qui-est-rose-leslie-la-girlfriend-de-kit-harington-040416-113700/ |title=Qui Est Rose Leslie, la girlfriend de Kit Harington? |newspaper=Le Figaro |date=4 April 2016 }} Upon their return to the UK, from 2000 to 2005, she was sent to Millfield, a boarding school in Street, Somerset,{{cite web |url=http://www.omsociety.com/old-millfieldians/Achievements/Film-TV-and-Radio/ |title=Old Millfieldian Society |publisher=Omsociety.com |access-date=17 May 2012 |archive-date=16 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516164054/http://www.omsociety.com/old-millfieldians/Achievements/Film-TV-and-Radio/ |url-status=dead }} before spending three years at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.{{cite web |url=http://www.lamda.org.uk/studentfiles/2008/c2008/LESLIE,%20Rose.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717041212/http://www.lamda.org.uk/studentfiles/2008/c2008/LESLIE,%20Rose.pdf |archive-date=17 July 2011 |title=Rose Leslie |publisher=London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art |date=17 July 2011 |access-date=13 August 2015}} She won a BASSC certificate in stage combat and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in 2008.

Leslie worked for BBC Radio narrating The British Slave Trade: Abolition, Parliament and People.{{cite news |last=Rockson |first=Gabrielle |date=30 August 2021 |title=BBC Vigil: Rose Leslie's marriage to Game of Thrones co-star and family links to King Charles II |url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/celebs/bbc-vigil-rose-leslies-marriage-21420193 |work=MyLondon |access-date=24 November 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124135940/https://www.mylondon.news/news/celebs/bbc-vigil-rose-leslies-marriage-21420193 |archive-date=24 November 2021}}

Her 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.bafta.org/scotland/awards/new-talent-awards-2009,1140,BA.html |work=The BAFTA site: Scotland |publisher=British Academy of Film and Television Arts |title=New Talent Awards in 2009 |date=12 March 2009 |access-date=10 November 2010 |archive-date=19 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819200438/http://www.bafta.org/scotland/awards/new-talent-awards-2009,1140,BA.html |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.lamda.org.uk/development/press/awards.htm |title=Awards and Nominations |work=LAMDA |publisher=The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029174140/http://www.lamda.org.uk/development/press/awards.htm |archive-date=29 October 2012 }}

In September and October 2010, she became the lead in Nell Leyshon's play Bedlam at the Globe Theatre.{{Cite web|title = Review of Nell Leyshon's Bedlam at the Shakespeare Globe Theatre in London 2010|url = https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/reviews/bedlam|website = London Theatre|access-date = 15 February 2016}} Based on the Bethlem Royal Hospital, representative of the worst excesses of asylums in the era of lunacy reform, Leslie portrayed May, a beautiful country girl driven mad by lost love.{{cite web |url=http://www.hamiltonhodell.co.uk/cv/client_rose-leslie_id_100050.htm |title=Rose Leslie CV |work=Hamilton Hodell |access-date=7 December 2011}} The Daily Telegraph{{'}}s Charles Spencer praised her performance, commenting, "Leslie proves genuinely poignant."{{Cite web|title = Bedlam, Globe Theatre, review|url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/8000064/Bedlam-Globe-Theatre.html|website = The Daily Telegraph| date=13 September 2010 |access-date = 15 February 2016}} Her break-through role came as Gwen Dawson, a housemaid, in the first series (2010–11) of the ITV television drama Downton Abbey.{{cite web|url=http://www.downtonabbey.com/category/episodes/ |title=Downton Abbey web-site |publisher=Downtonabbey.com |access-date=17 May 2012}} In 2011, while on Downton Abbey, Leslie briefly appeared in two episodes of the British drama series Case Histories.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00h76kf |title=Case Histories, Series 1, Case Histories – Part 1 |website=BBC |date=27 May 2011 |access-date=14 July 2015}}{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/casehistories/episode1_credits.html |title=Cast and Credits |publisher=PBS |access-date=14 July 2015 |archive-date=15 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715015308/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/casehistories/episode1_credits.html |url-status=dead }}

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In 2012, she was cast in seasons two, three and four of the popular HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones as the wildling Ygritte.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jan/11/rose-leslie-ygritte-honeymoon-game-thrones|title=Rose Leslie: 'It was hard to say goodbye to Ygritte'|date=11 January 2015|work=The Guardian|access-date=14 July 2015}} The A.V. Club{{'}}s Rowan Kaiser stated: "As Ygritte, [Rose] is both dangerous and flirtatious, and it's fun to watch."{{Cite web|title = GAME OF THRONES RECAP 6: THE OLD GODS AND THE NEW|url = http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/game-of-thrones-recap-6-the-old-gods-and-the-new|website = Press Play|access-date = 15 February 2016|first = Rowan|last = Kaiser|archive-date = 23 February 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160223050311/http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/game-of-thrones-recap-6-the-old-gods-and-the-new|url-status = dead}} Den of Geek's David Crow exclaimed, "A complicated character [...] Rose Leslie devours the screen."{{Cite web|title = Game of Thrones: The Watchers On The Wall Review|url = http://www.denofgeek.us/tv/game-of-thrones/236280/game-of-thrones-the-watchers-on-the-wall-review|website = Den of Geek|date = 9 June 2014|access-date = 20 February 2016}} In 2013, Vox.com's Emily VanDerWerff (under The A.V. Club) review for "The Climb" episode, "(In the books) Ygritte is a means to an end... (but) on screen, as embodied by Rose Leslie, she becomes something more,"{{Cite web|title = Game of Thrones (experts): "The Climb" (for experts)|url = https://www.avclub.com/game-of-thrones-experts-the-climb-for-experts-1798176702|website = www.avclub.com| date=6 May 2013 |access-date = 20 February 2016}} whilst The Atlantic{{'}}s Christopher Orr summed up her portrayal in the 2014 episode "The Watchers of the Wall" by concluding: "Rose Leslie has been one of a handful of performers on the show who've really elevated their characters above what they were in the books."{{Cite web|title = The One Disappointing Thing About That Huge Game of Thrones Battle|url = https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/06/game-of-thrones-watchers-on-the-wall-season-4-episode-9-recap-review-roundtable/372397/|website =The Atlantic|date=June 8, 2014|access-date = 15 February 2016|language = en-US|first1 = Spencer |last1=Kornhaber|first2=Christopher|last2=Orr|first3=Amy|last3 = Sullivan}}

While on Game of Thrones, Leslie appeared in the 2012 drama film Now Is Good{{cite web |url=http://www.moviefone.com/movie/now-is-good/55926/credits|title=Now Is Good (2012) – Cast, Crew & Credits|work=Moviefone|access-date=14 July 2015}} and in episodes of ITV detective television series Vera,{{cite web |url=http://www.kcet.org/shows/vera/web-extras/vera-episode-five-recap-the-ghost-position.html |title='Vera,' Episode 5: 'The Ghost Position' |website=KCET |access-date=14 July 2015 |archive-date=6 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006190110/http://www.kcet.org/shows/vera/web-extras/vera-episode-five-recap-the-ghost-position.html |url-status=dead }} Channel 4 conspiracy drama Utopia{{cite web |url=http://www.digitalspy.com/british-tv/news/a523832/game-of-thrones-star-rose-leslie-joins-utopia-series-2.html|title='Game of Thrones' star Rose Leslie joins 'Utopia' series 2|last=Jeffery|first=Morgan|date=16 October 2013|work=Digital Spy|access-date=1 December 2013}} and BBC One's comedy series Blandings.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0404bt5 |title=Blandings, Series 2, Custody of the Pumpkin |website=BBC |access-date=14 July 2015}}

From October to November 2014, she appeared in the four-part mini-series The Great Fire.{{cite web |url=http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/itv-casting-announcement-great-fire#.Uy_m0vl_s72|title=ITV casting announcement of The Great Fire|date=4 March 2014|work=ITV Press Centre|access-date=24 March 2014}} She then starred in the horror film Honeymoon.{{cite magazine |first=Clark|last=Collis|url=https://www.ew.com/article/2014/09/12/rose-leslie-honeymoon|title=Rose Leslie's 'Honeymoon' turns horrible in new clip|date=12 September 2014|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=14 July 2015}} She has since played DS Emma Lane in the BBC detective drama Luther with positive response{{Cite web|title = Luther series 4 episode 2 review|url = http://www.denofgeek.us/tv/luther/251574/luther-series-4-episode-2-review|website = Den of Geek|date = 23 December 2015|access-date = 15 February 2016}} and starred in the 2015 action adventure/fantasy film The Last Witch Hunter.{{cite web |url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/images/3333123/vin-diesels-bushy-the-last-witch-hunter-beard/|title=Vin Diesel's Bushy 'The Last Witch Hunter' Beard|date=4 March 2014 |website=Bloody Disgusting |access-date=24 March 2014}}{{Cite web |author=Mr. Disgusting |date=6 August 2015 |title=New 'The Last Witch Hunter' Trailer Pits Vin Diesel in the Middle of a Witch War! |url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/videos/3356349/new-last-witch-hunter-trailer-pits-vin-diesel-middle-witch-war/ |website=Bloody Disgusting |access-date=13 August 2015}}

She and David Tennant recorded an audiobook version of Carmilla in 2015.{{cite magazine |last1=Biedenharn Updated |first1=Isabella |title=Listen to 'Doctor Who's' David Tennant and 'Game of Thrones' star Rose Leslie read a gothic tale |url=https://ew.com/article/2015/10/27/david-tennant-rose-leslie-read-carmilla/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=12 December 2021 |language=en |date=27 October 2015}}{{cite news |title=Six of the best vampires, chosen by Rose Leslie, actress |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/six-of-the-best-vampires-chosen-by-rose-leslie-actress-hvhxjfwzxk0 |access-date=12 December 2021 |work=The Times |date=31 October 2015 |language=en}} In 2016, she portrayed the character of Athena in Sticky Notes.{{Cite web |first=Silas |last=Lesnick |date=4 June 2014 |title=Sticky Notes Adds Rose Leslie, Justin Bartha and Gina Rodriguez |url=https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/119126-sticky-notes-adds-rose-leslie-justin-bartha-and-gina-rodriguez |website=ComingSoon.net |access-date=13 August 2015}}

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 young lawyer who just passed the bar exam and whose family is involved in a financial scam, destroying her reputation. The first episode aired in February 2017. In July 2019, it was revealed that Leslie would not return for the show's fourth season.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/07/the-good-fight-says-goodbye-to-original-cast-member-rose-leslie-1202649663/|title='The Good Fight' Says Goodbye To Original Cast Member Rose Leslie|last=Haring|first=Bruce|date=July 30, 2019|website=Deadline Hollywood|language=en|access-date=2019-07-20}}

In 2017 Leslie provided the voice for the female protagonist "En" in the video game Echo, a game by Copenhagen-based game developer Ultra Ultra.{{cite web |url=https://www.gamereactor.eu/game-of-thrones-actor-rose-leslie-is-en-in-echo/ |title=Game of Thrones actor Rose Leslie is En in Echo |last=Malgieri |first=Fabrizia |date=14 September 2017 |website=Gamereactor |access-date=24 September 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719222050/https://www.gamereactor.eu/game-of-thrones-actor-rose-leslie-is-en-in-echo/ |archive-date=19 July 2023}}

In October 2019 Leslie was cast as Louise Bourget in Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel Death on The Nile. The film was released on 11 February 2022.{{Cite web|url=https://thegww.com/kenneth-branaghs-death-on-the-nile-adds-rose-leslie-emma-mackey-more-to-the-star-studded-ensemble/|title=Kenneth Branagh's 'Death on the Nile' Adds Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, & More to the Star-Studded Ensemble|first=Jacob|last=Osoria|website=The GWW|date=1 October 2019}}

In January 2020, Leslie joined the cast of BBC's and World Productions's drama series Vigil, which premiered in 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2020/01/bbc-commissions-vigil-suranne-jones-rose-leslie-1202832425/|title='Bodyguard' Producer World Productions To Make BBC Thriller 'Vigil,' Starring Suranne Jones & Rose Leslie|first1=Jake|last1=Kanter|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=17 January 2020}}

In February 2021, Leslie was cast in HBO's The Time Traveler's Wife TV series based on the novel by Audrey Niffenegger, starring as Clare Abshire alongside Theo James as Henry DeTamble.{{Cite web |last=Goldberg |first=Lesley |date=2021-02-26 |title=Rose Leslie and Theo James to Star in 'Time Traveler's Wife' for HBO |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/rose-leslie-and-theo-james-to-star-in-time-travelers-wife-for-hbo-4139162/ |access-date=2023-02-02 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}

Leslie became fluent in French while living with her family in France during her pre-adolescent years. While working as an actress, she lived in Battersea, London, until moving to north London. She often refers to missing Aberdeen, saying, "I feel very much at peace in Scotland."{{cite web|url=http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/film/interview-rose-leslie-from-wildling-warrior-to-london-detective-1-3974569|title=Interview: Rose Leslie, from Wildling warrior to London detective|publisher=The Scotsman|access-date=15 February 2016}}

In 2011, Leslie began dating Kit Harington, who played her love interest, Jon Snow, in Game of Thrones. They married on 23 June 2018.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/g21869806/kit-harington-and-rose-leslie-wedding-photos/|title=See Every Photo from Kit Harington and Rose Leslie's Wedding|magazine=Harper's Bazaar|access-date=18 August 2020}} In September 2020, Leslie posed for a magazine photo shoot while visibly pregnant.{{Cite magazine|date=September 26, 2020|title=Rose Leslie Is Pregnant! Actress and Husband Kit Harington Expecting Their First Child|url=https://people.com/parents/rose-leslie-kit-harington-expecting-first-child/|first=Karen|last= Mizoguchi|magazine=People|language=EN}} Their son was born in January 2021. In February 2023, Harington announced that they were expecting their second child.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a42764536/kit-harington-rose-leslie-expecting-second-child/|title=Kit Harington and Rose Leslie Announce They're Expecting Their Second Child|website=www.elle.com|date=2023-02-04|access-date=}} In July 2023, the couple confirmed the birth of their daughter.{{Cite web |date=2023-07-03 |title=Rose Leslie And Kit Harington Welcome Their Second Child, A Daughter |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rose-leslie-kit-harington-second-child-daughter_n_64a30d8be4b030efa1220142 |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=HuffPost |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Piña |first=Christy |date=2023-07-03 |title=Kit Harington and Rose Leslie Welcome Baby Girl |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/kit-harington-rose-leslie-welcome-second-child-1235528870/ |access-date=2023-07-23 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}

Leslie supported Scotland remaining as part of the United Kingdom during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign.{{Cite web|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/scottish-game-of-thrones-actress-backs-union-1-3460256|title=Scottish Game Of Thrones actress backs Union|access-date=26 August 2016}} At the 2015 UK general election, she campaigned with the Conservatives in her local constituency of Gordon.{{Cite news|first=Stephen|last=Walsh|date=April 24, 2015|url=https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeenshire/559117/game-of-thrones-star-helps-conservatives-canvass-in-north-east-constituency/|title=Game of Thrones star joins the Tory campaign trail in north-east|access-date=26 August 2016|newspaper=Press and Journal}}

She is a runner and enjoys rock climbing, cooking,{{cite web|url=http://katewaterhouse.com/date-kate-rose-leslie/|title=DATE WITH KATE: ROSE LESLIE|date=2 March 2014|publisher=Kate Waterhouse|access-date=16 February 2016}} skiing, archery, and tennis.

She is a patron of the charity Firefly International.{{cite web | url=https://fireflyinternational.org/about-us/#patrons | title=About Us }}

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