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Leslie Ash

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Leslie Ash

Born February 19, 1960 in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK12 films

Leslie Ash is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Deborah Burton in the BBC sitcom Men Behaving Badly, Vanessa Lytton in the BBC medical drama Holby City from 2009 to 2010 and Karen Buckley in the ITV drama Where the Heart Is from 2000 to 2003. Her book My Life Behaving Badly: The Autobiography was published in 2007. Ash appeared in BBC Radio 4's comic radio series, Vent (2007), alongside Neil Pearson, Fiona Allen and Josie Lawrence.

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In May 2008, Ash worked with Transparent Television to make a documentary about the unregulated cosmetic beauty industry whilst exploring her own experiences. The programme, Leslie Ash: Face to Face was broadcast on ITV on 23 September 2008.

In 2009 it was announced that Ash would join the cast of BBC medical drama, Holby City from October 2009, playing the role of executive Vanessa Lytton. In 2009, Ash appeared on daytime TV panel programme Loose Women to discuss her new role in Holby City and her previous health problems. Leslie reappeared on Loose Women on 17 February 2012 where she discussed her new on stage tour of All the Single Ladies where she stars alongside Brooke Kinsella and Tara Flynn.

In 2014, Leslie appeared and was a contestant on the BBC programme, Celebrity Masterchef.

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Quadrophenia posterFirst watchQuadrophenia19797.0as StephBased on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job.View film

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Curse of the Pink Panther poster4.6Curse of the Pink Panther1983

Filmography

12 films as actor
  1. 2021To Be SomeoneJudy
  2. 2021RuthJennifer
  3. 1988Natural CausesAngie
  4. 1985ShadeyCarol Landau
  5. 1984Murder: Ultimate Grounds for DivorcePhilippa
  6. 1983Curse of the Pink PantherJuleta Shane (AKA Julie Morgan)
  7. 1983Dead on TimeGirl in Cafe
  8. 1982Outside EdgeSharon
  9. 1982NutcrackerSharon
  10. 1979QuadropheniaSteph
  11. 1978Rosie Dixon - Night NurseNatalie Dixon
  12. 1958The Boy with Two HeadsJill Page