Cast

Uncle PeterLeon Herbert

Theatre includes: Hector Crack the Whip, Husky Miller, Carmen Jones (UK and Japan tour), Robeson (Young Vic/Oxford Stage Company), Napoleon Noir (Young Vic), Mystery Plays (Belgrade, Coventry), The Great White Hope (Tricycle), Salome (tour), Medea (Theatr Clywd), Mariana Pinenda (Oval House), West Side Story (Belgrade, Coventry), Beauty and the Beast (Foundry Theatre), Bashville (New Shakespeare Company) and City Jungle (Temba Theatre Company). Leon sang with the Royal Philharmonic in the concert version of Show Boat.

Film includes: Dark Floors, SW9, Bar Room Backchat, Lucinda’s Spell, Alien III, Scandal, The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, Seaview Nights, Batman, Salome’s Last Dance, Double X, Death Wish III, Breakdance and Tropic of Ice.

Television includes: Bonekickers, Starhunter, A History of the Future, Tenth Kingdom, Pychos, Kavanagh QC, Little Napoleons, Night of Day, The Detectives, The Paradise Club, TECX – The Sea Takes All, Midnight Breaks, The Bill, Bergerac, The Late Starters, Big Deal, The Green Man, Rockliffe’s Babies, Three Wishes and Too Young to Fight.

Other work includes: writing 11 feature film screenplays and directing several plays. Leo headed Corazon Visual Network for three years, a filmmakers’ network designed to inspire and support young filmmakers. As a result, he has produced nine short films. In 2003 he completed his first feature, Emotional Backgammon, which he wrote, directed and starred in. It was the subject of the C4 documentary Movie Virgins. The film won the Man of Merit Award from the Executive and Professional Network, a Pan African Film Festival Jury Award, Denver Independent Film Festival Best Film and a Screen Nation Film and TV Award for Outstanding Achievement. Most recently, the Black Enterprise Awards nominated his company Buccaneer Distribution as International Business of the Year.

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