Adam Leese

Biography

Adam is an English born character actor who's worked extensively in Film and TV in both comedy and dramas. Adam gained his first job in Victoria Woods 'Dinnerladies' whilst in his last term at Arts Ed Drama School in London and since then has worked on movies such as 'Bridget Jones Baby' (Dir Sharon McGuire), 'King of Thieves' (dir James Marsh) and has worked with Joe Cornish on both of his movies; 'Attack The Block' and 'The Kid Who Would be King'. Adam's first lead film role was also his first feature film 'EMR' which also starred an up and coming Tom Hardy. 'EMR' won several awards worldwide including the 'Best UK Feature Award' at London's prestigious 'Raindance Fesitval', seeing off tough competition such as Shane Meadows 'Dead Mans Shoes'. TV credits include many of the UK's favourite TV shows including playing Olivia Coleman's 'fling' in Broadchurch, Eastenders, Humans and Guerrilla.

Known For

Acting

2007

Until Death

as

Van Huffel

2008

Journal of a Contract Killer

as

Sam

2011

Attack the Block

as

Policeman 2

2012

Confine

as

Brian

2004

EMR

as

Adam Jones

2016

Bridget Jones's Baby

as

Photographer

2018

King of Thieves

as

Frankie the Fence

2019

The Kid Who Would Be King

as

Policeman

2019

Country of Hotels

as

Waking the Dead

as

Young Charles Sutton

Bad Girls

as

Damien Morrison

dinnerladies

as

Hugo

The IT Crowd

as

Barry

Humans

as

Dad in Playground

One Day

as

Fishmonger guy

Production

Crew

Directing