Stephanie Leonidas

Stephanie Leonidas is an English actress who began in community theater at eight and had an agent by nine. Born in London, she became known for the fantasy film MirrorMask (2005), playing Helena and the Dark Princess. Early television credits included the soap opera Night and Day, the drama Daddy's Girl, and a 2004 episode of Doc Martin. She followed MirrorMask with the BBC adaptation of Dracula (2006) and Crusade in Jeans (2006). On stage, she was Dani in The Sugar Syndrome at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in 2003 and Adela in The House of Bernarda Alba at Coventry's Belgrade Theatre; a reviewer said her Sugar Syndrome performance went beyond her years. She later starred in the BBC docudrama Atlantis (2011), the film Luna (2014), and as Irisa Nolan in the science fiction series Defiance. She also played Sophie Hawthorne in CBS's American Gothic in 2016 and Chloe Koen in the first season of Crackle's Snatch.