Lesley Mackie was born in 1951 in Dundee, Scotland. She is known for The Wicker Man (1973), The Wicker Tree (2011) and A Sense of Freedom (1981). She has been married to Terry Wale since 1977. They have two children.
Lesley Manville was born on March 12, 1956 in Brighton, East Sussex, England. She is a multi award-winning actress of theatre, film, and television, and has worked extensively with director Mike Leigh. She is known for Another Year (2010), All or Nothing (2002), Topsy-Turvy (1999) and Secrets & Lies (1996), and her performance in Phantom Thread (2017), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also had a supporting role in the Disney fantasy Maleficent (2014). Manville's extensive stage career includes roles in "As You Like It", "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" and "The Alchemist". Her film debut was in Dance with a Stranger (1985). She was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire at the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to drama. She was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire at the 2021 Queen's New Years Honours for her services to drama and to charity.
Lesley Mirza was born in Toronto, Ontario, to British mother Carol (Byles) and Canadian father, John William Flowers, a representative for a business forms company. When Lesley was very young, the family moved to England for John's work and Lesley attended the girls' school, Commonweal Lodge. Lesley always knew she wanted to be an entertainer. She began performing at the age of 10 and was in several theater productions at school. Her TV debut was in the 1993 mini-series Lipstick on Your Collar (starring Ewan McGregor). But it wasn't until 2015, and back in Canada, that she really focused on acting, booking several commercials and working on popular shows such as Chesapeake Shores, The Twilight Zone, and DC's Legends of Tomorrow. Most recently, Lesley played a supporting role on Hallmark's A Godwink Christmas: Miracle of Love. When not working, Lesley enjoys watching British Crime mini-series, visiting local restaurants, and traveling. She lives in Vancouver, Canada.
Lesley Molony is known for Locked In (2023), Scandal in 97 (2020) and Mourning Sickness (2021).
Lesley Moore is an actor and assistant director, known for Fancy a Pint? (2018) and DannyBoy (2020).
Born in 1953, to a mother who had worked in television, Lesley Nicol was a shy 16-year-old at St. Elphin's Boarding School in Derbyshire when she expressed a desire to go out and see the world - not, she recalls, to be an actress but to kiss boys. She went to a technical college in Manchester to study for her 'A'-level examinations and, whilst there, she got involved with the Manchester Library Theatre. She was paid a pound a week to play a tiny role as a 12-year-old boy in Shaw's 'Androcles and the Lion'. It was her first and last role there but she was encouraged to apply for entry to London's Guildhall School of drama, from where she graduated in the early 1970s. For several years she was best known as a stage actress, particularly in musicals, appearing in 'Mama Mia', 'Our House', the show based on the hit songs of Madness, and as Little Buttercup in a revival, with Gary Wilmot ,of 'HMS Pinafore'. She was also the original stage neighbor, nosy Auntie Annie, in the play 'East Is East' at the Royal Court, reprising the role in the 1999 film version that was also her movie debut, surprising given her length of acting experience. She has appeared in guest roles in numerous television series and in the mid-2000s played a character called Aunt-Tea in a short series of commercials for Tetley tea. Since 2010 she has played no-nonsense cook Mrs Patmore in the successful period drama 'Downton Abbey'.
Lesley Saint-John is known for Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983), A New Breed of Criminal (2023) and Don't Mind: Cruxmont (2022).
Lesley Scoble was born on January 5, 1949 in Hammersmith, London, England. She is known for The Elephant Man (1980), Village of the Damned (1960) and Amityville Playhouse (2015).
Lesley Selander's film career, which lasted more than 40 years, started in the early 1920s as a teenager when he got a job at a studio as a lab technician. He soon managed to work his way into the production end of the business and secured employment as a camera operator, then an assistant director, with several side trips as a director of two-reel shorts. He directed his first feature in 1936, a western--a genre in which he would not only excel but one where he would spend much of the rest of his career. Although Selander couldn't be considered an "A"-list director, his films had a professionalism and a verve that many of those made by his fellow B directors lacked. His sense of pacing was such that his films could be counted on to move quickly and smoothly, and not just his westerns. He also made detective thrillers, action/adventure pictures and even a horror film or two. One standout that is seldom seen nowadays, however, is Return from the Sea (1954), a sentimental and lyrical story of a cynical, embittered merchant seaman and the equally disillusioned waitress he meets in a dingy diner in the waterfront section of town. It's a surprisingly sensitive work for a man who spent his career making tough, macho shoot-'em-ups, and even more of a surprise are the outstanding performances by an unlikely cast: tough-guy Neville Brand as the sailor, perennial gun moll Jan Sterling as the waitress, and a terrific job by veteran heavy John Doucette as a garrulous, happy-go-lucky cab driver determined to bring the two together. With this little jewel Selander proved he was capable of much more than cattle stampedes, Indian attacks and gangster shootouts, but unfortunately he never made another one like it. As the market for B westerns died out, Selander--like so many of his fellow B directors--turned to television. The last few feature films he made, in the mid- and late 1960s, were a string of what's come to be known as "geezer westerns" churned out by producer A.C. Lyles, embarrassing efforts made on the cheap that were meant to give employment to aging cowboy stars; the less said about them, the better. Lesley Selander retired from the business in 1968, and died in 1979.
Lesley Sharp was born on April 3, 1960 in Manchester, England. She is an actress and director, known for Naked (1993), The Full Monty (1997) and From Hell (2001). She has been married to Nicholas Gleaves since February 1994. They have two children.