He became set on acting after winning a small role in a 1998 production of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Gate Theatre. Īfterwards, drama became the "focal point" of Leech's teenage years, apart from his family life, and drama and family support helped him through his school years. He recalled how he immediately decided to become an actor when Peter McDonald told him how acting is a profession on the last night of the production's run. Leech became interested in acting at 11 when he was given the part of the Cowardly Lion in a school production of The Wizard of Oz and found he loved being on stage. He is the third of four children he has an older brother, Greg, an older sister, Alli, and a younger brother, Simon. Leech was born in Killiney, County Dublin, to David Leech, the CEO of a computer systems company, and Kay Leech. Leech played Marcus Agrippa on the HBO historical drama series Rome (2007). Leech made his professional acting debut in the 1998 production of A Streetcar Named Desire, had his first major film role as Vincent Cusack in Cowboys & Angels (2003), and earned an Irish Film & Television Award nomination for his performance as Mo Chara in Man About Dog (2004). He is best known for his roles as Tom Branson in the ITV period drama Downton Abbey (2010–2015) and Paul Prenter in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).
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