Dimitri Leonidas

Leonidas was born in Brent, London, the son of a Greek Cypriot father and an English mother. [1] He also has Welsh ancestry through his mother.[2] He has three sisters: Stephanie and Georgina, both actresses, and Helena, a teacher.[3]

Leonidas first appeared in a film in 1997, as an extra in Charles Sturridge’s FairyTale: A True Story. [4] His first speaking part came in 2001 in the BBC series Grange Hill, in which he stayed for four seasons. Until 2008, he was credited mostly as Shane Leonidas.

In 2009, he co-starred in the horror/slasher Tormented, and in 2010 he appeared in Centurion, which starred Michael Fassbender, Dominic West and Olga Kurylenko. In 2010, he also had his first professional theatre role [5] in Through a Glass Darkly, starring Ruth Wilson. In the following years, his works included the TV series Sinbad and the Spanish film Animals.

Leonidas had a breakthrough year in 2013: he was cast by George Clooney in his Second World War drama The Monuments Men and landed a role in Jon Stewart’s Rosewater. This led him to be named as one of Screen International's Stars of Tomorrow. [6]

In 2015, he played a supporting role in the Emmy-nominated [7] television film Killing Jesus. In 2017, Leonidas joined the cast of the series Riviera, which starred Julia Stiles. He also appeared in the action thriller film Renegades and in 2018 he had a role in the comedy-horror Kill Ben Lyk. That same year he guest-starred in Genius, which was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Limited Series. [8]

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