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Ewen Leslie

Actor

Ewen Leslie

Born July 27, 1980 in Fremantle, Western Australia25 films

Born in Fremantle, Western Australia, he started appearing in various TV shows from the age of 12. He received a scholarship to study acting at John Curtin College of the Arts and was accepted into the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts straight out of high school.

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He was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Award for his lead performance in Jewboy, a film that screened in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival and the Discovery Section at the Sundance Film Festival.

In 2007 he was invited to join the Sydney Theatre Company Actor's Company where he played Prince Hal in War of the Roses opposite Cate Blanchett. He received a Helpmann Award and a Sydney Theatre Award for this performance. His other STC credits include Riflemind which was directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Josef K in an adaption of The Trial.

In 2010 he played Richard III for the Melbourne Theatre Company. He received his second Helpmann Award and a Green Room Award for this performance. In 2011 he played Hamlet in a sellout season for the Melbourne Theatre Company.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: SM

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Filmography

25 films as actor
  1. TBALarrikinsHotspur (voice)
  2. 2026LeviticusRod
  3. 2022The StrangerMilliken
  4. 2021Peter Rabbit 2: The RunawayPigling Bland (voice)
  5. 2018The NightingaleGoodwin
  6. 2018Peter RabbitPigling Bland (voice)
  7. 2018Sweet CountryHarry March
  8. 2017The Butterfly TreeAl
  9. 2015The DaughterOliver
  10. 2015Death in BloomChristopher Crumples
  11. 2014The MuleParis
  12. 2013The Railway ManCaptain Thompson
  13. 2013Scene 16Luka
  14. 2012Dead EuropeIsaac
  15. 2012SuspendedDave
  16. 2012MaboBryan Keon-Cohen
  17. 2011Sleeping BeautyBirdmann
  18. 2009ApricotMarcel
  19. 2008Netherland DwarfDad
  20. 2008Three Blind MiceSam Fisher
  21. 2007KatoombaDon
  22. 2006KokodaWilstead
  23. 2005JewboyYuri
  24. 2004Sold OutShane
  25. 2002The Junction BoysLuke Mason