Ewen Leslie
Biography
Ewen Leslie is an Australian actor from Fremantle, Western Australia, who started out in school plays and won a role on the children's series Ship to Shore as a child. He trained at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, graduating in 2000, and built a stage career in Sydney, earning Helpmann Awards for playing Prince Hal and Henry V in The War of the Roses and for Richard III. His screen break came with the lead in Jewboy, followed by leads in The Daughter (2015) and The Butterfly Tree (2017). He appeared in Kokoda (2006), The Mule (2014), Sweet Country (2018) and The Nightingale (2018), and voiced Pigling Bland in the Peter Rabbit films. He played Hamlet for the Melbourne Theatre Company and later for Belvoir St Theatre, and won an AACTA Award for his television work in Top of the Lake.
46years old
Turns 47 on July 27in 259 days
- Born Fremantle
- Star sign: LeoThe sign runs July 23 to August 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 10
- Career span
- 20 years2006 to 2026
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First role
In 2007, Ewen Leslie took a small part in a production of Paul at Belvoir Theatre. It was his first paid stage-acting job, and it opened the door to more stage roles at Belvoir.
Big break
Leslie got his first break when he was cast as the lead in the 2005 drama Jewboy. The film screened at both the Cannes Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival.
First role
After he spotted a newspaper ad for auditions for the children's series Ship to Shore, Leslie landed a role on that show, which he held from age 12 to 14.
Early training
Leslie went to John Curtin College of the Arts for high school on a theater scholarship. Fellow actor Sam Worthington was there too, several years ahead of him.
Early training
After his senior year, Leslie missed the auditions for Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art. He studied acting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth instead, graduating in 2000.
Behind the award
In 2008 Leslie became a member of the STC Actors Company. He earned a Helpmann Award and a Sydney Theatre Award for playing Prince Hal and Henry V alongside Cate Blanchett in The War of the Roses, which Benedict Andrews directed.
Ewen Leslie movies on Netflix
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The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Will Gluck directed two of these films. Sam Neill appears in four of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Sam Neill's page
Rose Byrne's page
James Corden's page
Bryan Brown's page
Domhnall Gleeson's page
Margot Robbie's page
All films by Will Gluck
Also two films together8 more actors
- Damon HerrimanPeter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021) and The Nightingale (2018)
- Elizabeth DebickiPeter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021) and Peter Rabbit (2018)
- Angus SampsonThe Mule (2014) and Kokoda (2006)
- Nicholas HopeLeviticus (2026) and The Daughter (2015)
- Matthew SunderlandThe Stranger (2022) and The Nightingale (2018)
- Anni FinstererThe Stranger (2022) and Sweet Country (2018)
- SiaPeter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021) and Peter Rabbit (2018)
- Colin MoodyPeter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021) and Peter Rabbit (2018)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.