Stephanie Leonidas

English actress

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).

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.

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.

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

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" Night and Day Della Wells Main role 2002 Daddy's Girl Emma Cooper TV film 2003 Danielle Cable: Eyewitness Kerri TV film The Bill Kirsty Sullivan Episode: "125" 2004 Rose and Maloney Katie Phelan Episode #1.2 Doc Martin Melanie Gibson Episode: "Of All the Harbours in All the Towns" Wall of Silence Tracy Broughton TV film 2005 Revelations Athena Episode: "Hour Two" Empire Girlfriend Olivia TV miniseries Beneath the Skin Zoe Haratounian TV film 2006 Brief Encounters Jay Episode: "One Night in White Satin" 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" 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" Agatha Christie's Poirot Hattie Stubs Episode: "Dead Man's Folly" By Any Means Coleen Parker Episode #1.2 2015 Midsomer Murders Annabel Latimer Episode (#17.2): "Murder by Magic" Killing Jesus Salome TV film 2016 American Gothic Sophie Hawthorne Main role Killjoys Clara Guest role 2017 Snatch Chloe Koen Main role2020 Van der Valk Eva Meisner Episode: "Love in Amsterdam" Endeavour Violetta TalentiSeries 7, Episodes 1 32021 Feel Good BinkySeason 2, Episode 3 2023 A Very Venice Romance TV film