Leanne Best

Acting

Born June 15, 1979, Liverpool, England, UK

Leanne Best (born June 15, 1979) is an English actress. She trained at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and presently lives in southwest London. She is known for her roles as Jane Cobden in the BBC series Ripper Street, Celia Donnelly in Fortitude, and the title role of 'The Woman In Black' in the 2014 film The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death. Best also appeared as Min Sakul in the sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). More recently Best appeared in ITV comedy series Cold Feet in September 2016 as Tina Reynolds. She was also in Line of Duty series 3.

Filmography

• A Woman of Substance — Adele Fairley
• This City Is Ours — Lesley Williams
• G'wed — Jodie
• Insomnia — Phoebe
• 2024Sebastian — Dionne
• A Town Called Malice — Lindsay
• 2023Black Dog — Dog Lady
• 2023Bolan's Shoes — Penny / Sadie
• 2023Our Kid — Sarah
• 2023Raging Grace — Katherine
• Compulsion — Jenny
• Four Lives — Kate
• The Walk-In — Alison
• Close to Me — Anna
• 2021Harm
• Ted Lasso — Georgie Tartt
• Young Wallander — Frida Rask
• Carnival Row — Madame Moira
• I Am... — Ava
• 2019Little Joe — Mother
• The Bay — Julie Ashworth
• 2018Native — Awan
• 2017Babs — Rose Deeks
• 2017Cotton Wool — Rachel
• 2017Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool — Eileen
• The Good Karma Hospital — Debbie Smart
• Tin Star — Penny
• 2016The Infiltrator — Bowling Alley Waitress
• The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells — Eveline Coombes
• Undercover — Abigail Strickland
• Fortitude — Celia Donnelly
• From Darkness — Julie Hind
• Home Fires — Teresa Fenchurch
• 2015Star Wars: The Force Awakens — Min Sakul
• The Outcast — Jeanie Lee
• 2014Salting the Battlefield — Amber Page
• The Driver — Sarah
• 2014The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death — Woman In Black
• 2013Lucan — Sandra Rivett
• Lucan — Sandra Rivett
• Shetland — Annabel
• Line of Duty — PC Jackie Brickford
• Ripper Street — Jane Cobden
• Black Mirror — Penny
• 2010The Be All and End All — Krystal
• Moving On — Lesley
• New Street Law — Claudia Hartson
• 2005Heatwave — Loz Garrett
• New Tricks — Zoe Baines
• Cold Feet — Tina Reynolds
• Do Not Disturb — Mum