| Richard Leaf | |
| Birth Date: | 1967 1, df=y |
| Birth Place: | England |
| Years Active: | 1986–2019 |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Children: | 3 |
| Spouse: | Tamsin Greig (m. 1997) |
Richard Leaf (born 1 January 1967) is an English actor.
He has had several small parts in television and stage productions. Leaf met actress Tamsin Greig at a wrap party after Neil Gaiman's 1996 miniseries Neverwhere finished recording.[1] They married in 1997 and they have three children.[2] [3] The actor is notable for his role as the Duke of York, nephew of King Edward I in Mel Gibson's Braveheart. He appeared as Hannibal Lecter's father in the 2007 film Hannibal Rising.[4] He also appeared as John Dawlish, an Auror, in the film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,[5] and portrayed Jack, the bartender of the Cloverdilly public house, in the 2006 film Penelope.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Braveheart | Duke of York | ||
| Jack and Sarah | Stoned Man | |||
| Cutthroat Island | Snake the Lookout | |||
| 1996 | Mary Reilly | Screaming Girl's Father | ||
| 1997 | The Fifth Element | Neighbour | ||
| This Is the Sea | Pastor Lamthorn | |||
| A spasso nel tempo - L'avventura continua | Capo esercito inglese | |||
| 1999 | Conscience - Young Man | |||
| 2000 | Best | Constable Davies | ||
| Maybe Baby | Justin Cocker | |||
| 2001 | Enigma | Baxter | ||
| 2003 | The Order | Sin Eater at St. Peters | ||
| 2004 | Agatha Christie | Gunman | Episode "A Life in Pictures" | |
| 2005 | Derailed | Night Clerk Ray | ||
| 2006 | Penelope | Jack the Bartender | ||
| 2007 | Hannibal Rising | Father Lecter | ||
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | John Dawlish | |||
| 2008 | Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth | Colonel Regamun | ||
| 2011 | Midsomer Murders | Evan Jago | "The Sleeper Under the Hill" | |
| 2011 | Stop the World | Director and writer; short film |