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Rose Leslie

(1987) Actor United Kingdom

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Rose Leslie is an actor from the United Kingdom, best known for Down East nurse.

Quick Facts About Rose Leslie

Born: February 9, 1987
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Down East nurse
Spouse: Kit Harington

About Rose Leslie

Rose Eleanor Arbuthnot-Leslie is a Scottish actress. She portrayed Gwen Dawson in the ITV drama series Downton Abbey and Ygritte in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones. She played Maia Rindell in three seasons of the CBS All Access legal and political drama The Good Fight and starred as Clare Abshire in HBO's The Time Traveler's Wife.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Rose Leslie

The gap between film and TV is narrowing, and that's great for us all.

Between

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I have an older brother and an older sister - and they had the time of their lives at university. They were…

Blast

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Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is…

Candid

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Going into auditions, there is a wonderful butterfly feeling in your stomach - an equal balance of being utterly terrified and exhilarated…

Balance

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I feel incredibly passionate about Scotland not becoming an independent country.

About

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Certainly part of being from a big family is that you have to shout to make yourself heard.

Being

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With big productions, you can sometimes get lost with the terminology and all the different departments.

Bigs

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You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm…

Admire

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I had the most fantastic time filming 'Downton.'

Fantastic

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With 'Game of Thrones' you're not really dealing with anything that is based in reality. You have dragons and magic and all…

Anything

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There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is…

Approach

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With 'Honeymoon,' it was so intimate, and we literally shot it in something like 20, 24 days. Everything was very rapid and…

Deep

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It's never fun to be scared [about stage fright] but I think that it is important and it's healthy to always push…

Fright

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The honeymoon phase always ends, for everyone.

Always

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Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.

Dad

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I would love to do comedy, but you have to be phenomenally good. I'm not sure I'm there yet. I can imagine…

Ahead

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I just know that for my honeymoon, I'm not going to go to a cabin in the woods.

Cabin in the woods

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I do love archery in my day-to-day life because I find it very therapeutic, and I've trained every season with the bow…

Archery

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I taught myself to listen and kind of regurgitate what I was surrounded by, and it's been a wonderful tool to have…

Actor

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Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But…

Dad

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For the first time in my life I tried whale. It was very chewy and quite fatty. My friend had had whale…

Before

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I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a…

Booze

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I definitely think it opened doors for me and what was so fantastic about 'Downton' being showed over in the States, was…

About

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I certainly relate to Ygritte in the fact that she is so strong and also ruthless as well and I feel that…

Also

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I have had the most wonderful childhood, and I was raised in a very loving family. And it was nothing short of…

Able

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