Richard Leaf

Richard Leaf (born 1 January 1967) is an English actor.

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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	The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc	Conscience - Young Man
2000	Best	Constable Davies
2000	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
2007	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

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