Leslie Ash is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Deborah Burton in the BBC sitcom Men Behaving Badly, Vanessa Lytton in the BBC medical drama Holby City from 2009 to 2010 and Karen Buckley in the ITV drama Where the Heart Is from 2000 to 2003. Her book My Life Behaving Badly: The Autobiography was published in 2007. Ash appeared in BBC Radio 4's comic radio series, Vent (2007), alongside Neil Pearson, Fiona Allen and Josie Lawrence. In May 2008, Ash worked with Transparent Television to make a documentary about the unregulated cosmetic beauty industry whilst exploring her own experiences. The programme, Leslie Ash: Face to Face was broadcast on ITV on 23 September 2008. In 2009 it was announced that Ash would join the cast of BBC medical drama, Holby City from October 2009, playing the role of executive Vanessa Lytton. In 2009, Ash appeared on daytime TV panel programme Loose Women to discuss her new role in Holby City and her previous health problems. Leslie reappeared on Loose Women on 17 February 2012 where she discussed her new on stage tour of All the Single Ladies where she stars alongside Brooke Kinsella and Tara Flynn. In 2014, Leslie appeared and was a contestant on the BBC programme, Celebrity Masterchef.

Filmography

• 2021Ruth — Jennifer
• 2021To Be Someone — Judy
• 2006A Way of Life: Making Quadrophenia
• The Keith Barret Show
• Harry Hill's TV Burp
• Judge John Deed
• Merseybeat
• Where the Heart Is — Karen Buckley
• Bugs
• Men Behaving Badly — Deborah
• Haggard
• Perfect Scoundrels — Daisy Garland
• 1988Natural Causes — Angie
• The Marksman — Hazel
• Casualty — Vanessa Lytton
• C.A.T.S. Eyes — Fred Smith
• Home to Roost — Susie Perkins
• 1985Shadey — Carol Landau
• 1984Murder: Ultimate Grounds for Divorce — Philippa
• The Bill
• 1983Curse of the Pink Panther — Juleta Shane (AKA Julie Morgan)
• 1983Dead on Time — Girl in Cafe
• The Happy Apple
• 1982Nutcracker — Sharon
• 1982Outside Edge — Sharon
• The Tube
• Plays for Pleasure — Ros Bedwell
• Seconds Out — Hazel
• The Gentle Touch
• 1979Quadrophenia — Steph
• 1978Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse — Natalie Dixon
• 1958The Boy with Two Heads — Jill Page

Appearances as themselves (13)

• 2019Quadrophenia: Our Generation — Self
• Celebrity Antiques Road Trip — Self - Participant
• Would I Lie to You? — Self
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross — Self
• It's Only TV But I Like It — Self
• Fantasy World Cup — Self
• 1997An Audience with Elton John — Self
• Saturday Live — Self
• 1994An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck — Self - Audience Member
• Harry Enfield and Chums — Self
• Shooting Stars — Self
• This Morning — Self
• The Story of Quadrophenia — Self