Allen Leech

Acting · Born 1981-05-18 in Killiney, County Dublin, Ireland

Biography

Allen Leech (born 18 May 1981) is an Irish actor best known for his role as Tom Branson on the historical drama series Downton Abbey (2010–2015). He made his professional acting debut with a small part in a 1998 production of A Streetcar Named Desire, made his first major film appearance as Vincent Cusack in Cowboys & Angels, and earned an Irish Film & Television Awards nomination in 2004 with his performance as Mo Chara in Man About Dog. He appeared as Willi in the Queen and Peacock (2000), at the Garter Lane Arts Centre. The following years, he was in The Morning After Optimism (2001) and then Da (2002). His breakthrough film performance was in Cowboys and Angels (2003), followed by a role in the 2004 cross-country caper film Man About Dog. He played the role of Shane Kirwan in…

Filmography

• The Imitation Game as John Cairncross
• Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale as Tom Branson
• Bohemian Rhapsody as Paul Prenter
• Downton Abbey as Tom Branson
• Downton Abbey: A New Era as Tom Branson
• You Can't Run Forever as Eddie
• Cowboys & Angels as Vincent
• Man About Dog as Mo Chara
• Rewind as Karl
• Factory Farmed

TV

• Rome as Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
• Downton Abbey as Tom Branson
• The Tudors as Francis Dereham
• Black Mirror as Pike
• The Good Doctor as Ariel Reznik
• Primeval
• Bellevue as Eddie Roe
• The View as Self - Guest
• Heroes and Villains as Edeco
• The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self