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- Birth nameLeo Vincent Woodall
- Leo Woodall, British actor. He is the youngest of three children, he has an older sister, Constance, and an older brother, Gabriel. His father, Andrew Woodall, is an actor. His mother, Jane Mary Ashton, studied drama, although she did not pursue an acting career. His ancestors also include Maxine Elliott, an American actress who was a silent film star in the 1910s.
After graduating, the young man began working in television with appearances in soap operas and short films. He then took his first steps on the big screen with the film Cherry, directed by brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, and in the series Vampire Academy by Julie Plec. He obtained his first significant role in season 2 of The White Lotus, playing Jack alongside Tom Hollander. In 2023, Leo Woodall plays Duke in the action series Citadel on Prime Video with the Russo brothers acting as producers.
On June 23, 2022, he was chosen to play the lead role of Dexter Mayhew opposite Ambika Mod in One Day, a British miniseries based on the eponymous novel by David Nicholls, published in 2009, as well as on the film adaptation, released in 2011. The series is broadcast on February 8, 2024 on Netflix.- IMDb mini biography by: yusufpiskin
- [on the impact of bullying he dealt with in secondary school] I started shaving my eyebrows. I shaved my head. I wore a hood all the time, changed the way I talked. It was a kind of survival instinct, I think. To fit in. But I wasn't nice. I lashed out. My mum was worried.
- [I was using a Netflix account I shared with my mother] so every time I tried to watch it [One Day (2024)], it would block her out. My mum said something very sweet: 'Surely, if you're the lead in a Netflix show, they give you your own account.' I said, 'No, mum, that's not how it works.'
- [on filming the emotional final The White Lotus (2021) scene] I really enjoyed that. I smoked about 40 cigarettes. [Were they real cigarettes? They have fake ones, right?] They have fake ones. I think I smoked a couple of real ones... no, I'm not gonna lie, I think, actually, most of them were real. It surprised me that I didn't get sick.
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