Leigh Symonds

Leigh Symonds

Gus Crewes (Better Off Dead): Sven (Joking Apart)

For the New Vic: Widowers Houses

At the New Vic: Regular appearances with the SJT Company.

Theatre credits include: Taking Steps, The Karaoke Theatre Company, Consuming Passions, Roundelay, The Hoarder, Blithe Spirit, The Nutcracker Prince (SJT); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Private Fears In Public Places, Glengarry Glenross, The Importance of Being Earnest, Gameplan, Much Ado About Nothing, Arcadia, Hamlet, Hidden Markings, Traffic and Weather (Library Theatre, Manchester); Oliver! (Dukes, Lancaster); Accidental Death Of An Anarchist, Dumb Show, Cinderella, Perfect Days, Dr Watson in The Hound Of The Baskervilles (Oldham Coliseum); The Crucible, The Seafarer, Wayne in Popcorn (Bolton Octagon – winner of Manchester Evening News Theatre Award for Best Actor 2004); The Baby And Flypie, Macbeth (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester).

Television credits include: Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, Always And Everyone, Coronation Street, Heartbeat, The Marchioness, The Stepfather, City Central, Reckless, It’s Adam And Shelley.

Film credits include: Boy A, Runners, The Painter.

Radio credits include: China Girl, Silas Marner, Excluded, Germinal, Erewhon (BBC Radio Drama).

Leigh trained at Manchester Metropolitan University.