Rose Leslie: Scottish Actress
Rose Leslie, is known for her roles on Downton Abbey as Gwen Dawson and Game of Thrones as Ygritte respectively. Descended from Scottish nobility, Leslie studied drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before making Hollywood her home.
Leslie married fellow actor Kit Harington in 2018 and is pregnant with their first child together, a son.
Rose Leslie’s Biography
Rose Leslie, best known for her role as Ygritte on Game of Thrones, has made numerous film and television appearances throughout her career. She played Gwen Dawson in Downton Abbey and Morgan and The Last Witch Hunter films respectively; additionally Leslie has worked as a voice actor.
In Game of Thrones, Ygritte is an army member under Mance Rayder and Jon Snow’s lover. She possesses exceptional spearwife skills as well as being an adept markswoman and poet; although she feels betrayed when Jon leaves the Night’s Watch to fight Wildlings at Castle Black, she remains loyal and does not kill him outright.
Tormund Giantsbane and Ygritte Giantbane rest together while waiting for Mance’s signal south of the Wall. Tormund recognizes Ygritte’s feelings for Jon Snow and has difficulty shooting his heart directly; eventually, she realizes she cannot kill him due to their mutual affection and leaves his killing unfinished.
Leslie was born and raised at Lickleyhead Castle, owned by her family in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She developed a knack for accents including Scottish, English, Welsh, Mexican American, and French; plus an incredible athletic ability. To play Ygritte on-screen she underwent extensive physical training which included learning fight scenes and bow-arrow skills.
Leslie began dating Kit Harington (who plays Jon Snow on Game of Thrones). The two soon began a romantic relationship and eventually married in 2018. Leslie is also passionate about music and has written her song.
Leslie has also made appearances on Broadway in Nell Leyshon’s Bedlam and has made numerous films such as New Town and Pompeii; as well as having appeared in various TV series like BBC Sherlock Holmes and ITV Downton Abbey. Additionally, Leslie will play Clare Abshire in three episodes of CBS All Access legal/political drama The Good Fight this year while other projects may include HBO thriller The Founders or Netflix drama The Unborn.
Gwen Dawson on Downton Abbey
Rose Leslie first made her mark on Downton Abbey as Gwen Dawson, the ambitious housemaid who wanted more out of life than just serving food and cleaning sheets. Gwen desired to become a secretary so she saved up money to buy a typewriter to take correspondence typing and shorthand classes via correspondence courses – an ambitious plan which would likely have been laughed away without Lady Sybil Crawley as her advocate; eventually finding employment locally!
Gwen’s success caused some friction among her fellow servants, though Sybil remained her close ally; lending clothes and a typewriter when needed when the money ran low. Gwen eventually secured a position as secretary for a phone company’s manager; however, due to financial limitations, she was required to move from Downton in London for this position.
Gwen returned to Downton Estate as a newly married woman during season six of Downton. Though at first she wasn’t recognized, she soon charmed everyone with an endearing tale about her kindness and generosity that won her praise from both family members as well as former co-workers alike. Gwen proved it possible for someone from her background to succeed by showing that it could happen for anyone to rise above lowly beginnings.
Rose Leslie went on to star as Maia Rindell on three seasons of CBS All Access legal drama The Good Fight, while also making appearances on Game of Thrones as Ygritte and films such as Morgan, Sticky Notes, The Last Witch Hunter, and Death on the Nile. Additionally, Leslie married fellow actor Kit Harington whom she met while filming Game of Thrones.
In 2018, she joined the anti-oil protest movement by voice-acting for an animated video to urge British high-street banks not to finance new oil, gas, and coal exploration. Her next film release will be 2022: romantic thriller Ingrid and I with her Game of Thrones co-stars as co-leads.
Maia Rindell on The Good Fight
Rose Leslie has become widely renowned for her roles as Gwen Dawson on Downton Abbey and as Ygritte on Game of Thrones on HBO, not to mention her regular recurring roles on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and The Good Fight. In addition to acting, this Scottish actress can sing as well and has appeared in several movies such as Master of Sex; her next Netflix project Beyond The Storm will star her!
This week marked the launch of season four of The Good Fight and it promises to be one of the most surprising seasons yet. Not only does its pilot episode depict an alternate reality where Hillary Clinton won, but Diane Lockhart loses her life savings in a Bernie Madoff-esque Ponzi scheme run by Maia Rindell who joins Diane’s firm – all this before Diane is seduced by Maia herself!
The Good Fight has always veered from traditional legal fiction, but it remains unclear whether its writers are trying to make this particular plotline more believable or simply represent reality on-site. Either way, its result provides a fascinating look into an alternate universe that could easily exist alongside ours.
Diane and Lucca make headlines when they take on a case that could have serious repercussions for a local pastor, while Adrian and Barbara come to a shocking realization about one of their clients. Maia continues to suffer the effects of her family’s Ponzi scheme as well as receives an unexpected visit from her father.
Notable in this season is that Maia Rindell will not appear, suggesting a shift in casting and storylines for Season 7. Whoever replaces Maia remains unknown at this point; we don’t yet know if she will return at any point during Season 7 either.
Clare Abshire on The Time Traveler’s Wife
Clare Abshire and Henry DeTamble met when Clare was six and he was 31; their love blossomed quickly but was made more complicated when Henry started time traveling. Their story, as depicted on Audrey Niffenegger’s 2003 novel adaptation starring Game of Thrones star Rose Leslie and Divergent actress Theo James as adult versions of themselves is told through this television adaptation – here’s everything you should know.
The series follows Clare and Henry as their relationship endures over 152 years, from their initial meeting at Clare’s childhood home to their later meeting at a library in Chicago. Over time, each character develops independently while remaining committed to one another.
Clare has endured physical abuse at the hands of her cruel parents; yet, despite this, she finds comfort with Henry as their relationship blossoms from childhood through to young adulthood. Though her family attempts to keep Clare at bay from exploring and discovering what’s out there in the future, Clare remains keenly curious and continues exploring and discovering. Attracted to certain individuals or places with special meaning for her she makes sure to visit landmarks and attend cultural events regularly.
On her eighteenth birthday, Henry from her past comes back into her life and they make love for the first time. Though he tries to tell her it won’t work due to his curse, she believes having children from different men would be worse for her so decides to have a vasectomy but an unexpected future visit from another version of Henry causes her to become pregnant – only for it all to end tragically soon thereafter. During that pregnancy period alone she miscarries multiple times before giving birth at 30 weeks.
Clare is taken aback when she discovers she is expecting their seventh child together and decides on Alba as its name. Later on Henry visits Clare at the hospital and Clare can reassure him of its healthiness.
Clare struggles to keep her daughter a top priority while pursuing an art career, constantly haunted by memories of an abusive childhood and remaining strong for her daughter. Unfortunately, due to emotional stress from having so many miscarriages, Clare suffers a nervous breakdown; although she eventually recovers she continues living with lasting effects of trauma.
