In January 2020, Leslie joined the cast of BBC's and World Productions's drama series Vigil, which premiered in 2021. The film is slated to be released on 11 February 2022. In October 2019 Leslie was cast as Louise Bourget in 20th Century Fox's adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel Death on The Nile, directed by Kenneth Branagh. In 2017 Leslie provided the voice for the female protagonist "En" in the video game Echo, a game by Copenhagen-based game developer Ultra Ultra.
In July 2019, it was revealed that Leslie would not return for the show's fourth season. The first episode aired in February 2017. She plays Maia Rindell, a new lawyer who just passed the bar and whose family is involved in a financial scam, destroying her reputation. In 2016, Leslie was cast in The Good Fight, a CBS All Access legal drama and spin off of The Good Wife. In 2016, she portrayed the character of Athena in Sticky Notes. She and David Tennant recorded an audiobook version of Carmilla in 2015. She has since played DS Emma Lane in the BBC detective drama Luther with positive response and starred in the 2015 action adventure/fantasy film The Last Witch Hunter. She then starred in the horror film Honeymoon. įrom October to November 2014, she appeared in the four-part mini-series The Great Fire. While on Game of Thrones, Leslie appeared in the 2012 drama film Now Is Good and in episodes of ITV detective television series Vera, Channel 4 conspiracy drama Utopia and BBC One's comedy series Blandings. (but) on screen, as embodied by Rose Leslie, she becomes something more," whilst The Atlantic 's Christopher Orr summed up her portrayal in 2014's episode " The Watchers of the Wall" by concluding: "Rose Leslie has been one of a handful of performers on the show who’ve really elevated their characters above what they were in the books." Club) review for " The Climb" episode, "(In the books) Ygritte is a means to an end. Club 's Rowan Kaiser stated: "As Ygritte, is both dangerous and flirtatious, and it's fun to watch." Den of Geek's David Crow exclaimed, "A complicated character Rose Leslie devours the screen." In 2013, Vox.com's Emily VanDerWerff (under The A.V. In 2012, she was cast in seasons two, three and four of the popular HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones as the wildling Ygritte. Leslie in 2013 for Game of Thrones Comic-Con panel In 2011, while on Downton Abbey, Leslie briefly appeared in two episodes of the British drama series Case Histories. The Daily Telegraph 's Charles Spencer praised her performance, commenting, "Leslie proves genuinely poignant." Her break-through role came as Gwen Dawson, a housemaid, in the first series (2010–11) of the ITV television drama Downton Abbey. Based on the Bethlem Royal Hospital, representative of the worst excesses of asylums in the era of lunacy reform, Leslie portrayed May, a beautiful country girl driven mad by lost love. In September and October 2010, she became the lead in Nell Leyshon's infamous play Bedlam held at Globe Theatre. Her leading on screen debut came at age 21 in the television film New Town (2009), for which she won the Scottish BAFTA for Best Acting Performance – New Talent Award. Leslie worked for BBC Radio narrating The British Slave Trade: Abolition, Parliament and People. She won a BASSC certificate in stage combat and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in 2008. Upon their return to the UK, she was sent to Millfield, a boarding school in Street, Somerset, before spending three years at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. At 10, she went to Ermitage International School in Maisons-Laffitte, France, where her family lived for 3 years. She was first educated at Rayne North School in Aberdeenshire. Her family currently lives at the 12th-century Wardhill Castle in Old Rayne. Leslie's ancestors include Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps De Lisle, politician Charles March-Phillipps and MP James Grimston, 3rd Earl of Verulam. Through her mother, Leslie is a great-great-granddaughter of Frederick Weld, the sixth prime minister of New Zealand and, through her father, she is a great-great-granddaughter of Don Guillermo Landa y Escandón, who served as governor of Mexico City. Her mother is Candida Mary Sibyl "Candy" Leslie (née Weld) of Clan Fraser of Lovat, whose maternal great-grandfather was Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat and a descendant of King Charles II. Her father, Sebastian Arbuthnot-Leslie, is the Chieftain of the Aberdeenshire branch of the Scottish Clan Leslie. Leslie was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and raised at Lickleyhead Castle in Aberdeenshire, her family's 15th-century ancestral seat, where she lived until the age of 10.