# Stephanie Leonidas

Stephanie Leonidas (born 14 February 1984) is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the fantasy film MirrorMask (2005), the Syfy series Defiance (2013–2015), and the Crackle crime series Snatch (2017–2018).

## Early life

Leonidas was born in Westminster, London, the daughter of a Greek Cypriot father and an English mother. She also has Welsh ancestry through her mother. Her younger brother Dimitri and younger sister Georgina are also actors.

## Career

Leonidas started acting in community theatre when she was eight; at nine she acquired an agent and began to work in television.
Notable credits include the television drama Daddy's Girl, the soap opera Night and Day and a 2004 episode of Doc Martin (entitled 'Of All the Harbours in All the Towns') in which she plays Melanie, a local Portwenn 15-year-old girl who develops an unhealthy interest in the surgeon. In 2005 she starred in Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's MirrorMask in the dual roles of Helena and the Dark Princess. She followed this with roles in a BBC adaptation of Dracula, as well as Crusade in Jeans. Her theatrical roles have included Adela in a production of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba at Coventry's Belgrade Theatre, and Dani in The Sugar Syndrome, staged at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, in 2003. In this latter production, reviewer Lizzie Loveridge said she gave a performance "way beyond her years".
Leonidas also starred in the BBC docudrama Atlantis, which aired on BBC One and BBC One HD on 8 May 2011. In 2011, she was also in a play for the Transatlantyk Festival called Influence, written by Shem Bitterman. Leonidas later teamed up with Dave McKean to work on the film Luna, released in 2014. She also starred as Irisa Nolan in the science fiction TV series Defiance, which ran for three seasons. In 2016, Leonidas played Sophie Hawthorne in the CBS mystery series American Gothic. She starred as Chloe Koen in the first season of the Crackle crime series Snatch and appeared in the 2018 film Tomorrow.

## Personal life

Leonidas married fellow actor Robert Boulter on New Year's Eve 2016. They have a child, born 2021.

## Filmography
### Films

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2002 | Fogbound | Annette at 16 | Uncredited |
| 2004 | Yes | Grace | |
| 2005 | MirrorMask | Helena Campbell / The Dark Princess (Anti-Helena) | |
| 2005 | The Feast of the Goat | Uranita | |
| 2006 | Crusade in Jeans | Jenne | |
| 2011 | How to Stop Being a Loser | Patch | |
| 2013 | uwantme2killhim? | Kelly | |
| 2014 | Luna | Freya | |
| 2018 | Tomorrow | Katie | |
| TBA | 5lbs of Pressure | Donna | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1997 | Chalk | Rabbit Girl 2 | Episode: "Exam" |
| 2000 | Down to Earth | Chrissie | Episode: "O Best Beloved" |
| 2001 | Holby City | Sarah Newman | Episode: "Runaway" |
| 2001 | Night and Day | Della Wells | Main role |
| 2002 | Daddy's Girl | Emma Cooper | TV film |
| 2003 | Danielle Cable: Eyewitness | Kerri | TV film |
| 2003 | The Bill | Kirsty Sullivan | Episode: "125" |
| 2004 | Rose and Maloney | Katie Phelan | Episode #1.2 |
| 2004 | Doc Martin | Melanie Gibson | Episode: "Of All the Harbours in All the Towns" |
| 2004 | Wall of Silence | Tracy Broughton | TV film |
| 2005 | Revelations | Athena | Episode: "Hour Two" |
| 2005 | Empire | Girlfriend Olivia | TV miniseries |
| 2005 | Beneath the Skin | Zoe Haratounian | TV film |
| 2006 | Brief Encounters | Jay | Episode: "One Night in White Satin" |
| 2006 | Dracula | Mina Murray | TV film |
| 2007 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Hester Argyle | Episode: "Ordeal by Innocence" |
| 2011 | Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend | Pinaruti | TV film |
| 2012 | Eternal Law | Jude | Episodes: "Episode Three", "Episode Four" |
| 2012 | Whitechapel | Georgie Fox | Episodes: "Case One (Part 1)", "Case One (Part 2)" |
| 2013–2015 | Defiance | Irisa Nyira | Main role |
| 2013 | The Bible | Rahab | Episode: "Homeland" |
| 2013 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Hattie Stubs | Episode: "Dead Man's Folly" |
| 2013 | By Any Means | Coleen Parker | Episode #1.2 |
| 2015 | Midsomer Murders | Annabel Latimer | Episode (#17.2): "Murder by Magic" |
| 2015 | Killing Jesus | Salome | TV film |
| 2016 | American Gothic | Sophie Hawthorne | Main role |
| 2016 | Killjoys | Clara | Guest role |
| 2017 | Snatch | Chloe Koen | Main role |
| 2020 | Van der Valk | Eva Meisner | Episode: "Love in Amsterdam" |
| 2020 | Endeavour | Violetta Talenti | Series 7, Episodes 1 - 3 |
| 2021 | Feel Good | Binky | Season 2, Episode 3 |
| 2023 | A Very Venice Romance | Amy | TV film |

### Video game

* Defiance (2013), as Irisa Nyira (voice role)

### Audiobook

* MirrorMask (2005), Narrator, as Helena Campbell

## Theatre

* The Sugar Syndrome as Dani (2003)
* The House of Bernarda Alba as Adela (2010)
* Influence as Sally (2012)