Leila Mimmack

Leila Mimmack is an English actress born in Leamington Spa. Her career gained attention in 2008, when she took the Best Teenage Actress prize at the Growing Talent Convention in Paris against 300 other performers. Two years later she began television work with a part as Vanessa Finch in the BBC drama Doctors. In 2011 she took the role of Christa, a werewolf, in Becoming Human, a spinoff of Being Human. She went on to appear in the miniseries Mayday, as Hattie, and in Inside Men, as Dita. Her film roles include Blue in The Sleeping Room (2014), the young Mary in Son of God (2014), and Anna in the thriller Level Up (2016). On television she was later seen as Laura Campbell in Home Fires and Rowenna Napier in Midwinter of the Spirit, both in 2015, and she also returned to Doctors in 2020, this time as Tanya Rees.