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3	Rose Leslie (born Rose Eleanor Arbuthnot-Leslie; 9 February 1987) is a Scottish actress. She's perhaps best known for her portrayals of Gwen Dawson in the first series of ''Series/DowntonAbbey'', Ygritte in ''Series/GameOfThrones'', and Maia Rindell in ''Series/TheGoodFight''. She is of [[BlueBlood Scottish nobility]] and one of the ''many'' descendants of UsefulNotes/CharlesII. (Another is her ''Thrones'' love interest Creator/KitHarington, who she married in June 2018; they have a son born in February 2021.)
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6	!!Filmography on TV Tropes:
7	* 2010, 2015: ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' as Gwen Dawson
8	* 2011: ''Series/CaseHistories'' as Laura Wyre
9	* 2012: ''Series/{{Vera}}'' as Lena Holgate
10	* 2012–14: ''Series/GameOfThrones'' as Ygritte
11	* 2014: ''Series/{{Utopia}}'' as Young Milner
12	* 2014: ''Film/{{Honeymoon}}'' as Bea
13	* 2015: ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter'' as Chloe
14	* 2015: ''Series/{{Luther}}'' as Emma Lane
15	* 2016: ''Film/{{Morgan}}'' as Dr. Amy Menser
16	* 2016: ''WesternAnimation/RevoltingRhymes'' as Red Riding Hood
17	* 2017: ''VideoGame/{{ECHO}}'' as En
18	* 2017–19: ''Series/TheGoodFight'' as Maia Rindell
19	* 2021: ''Series/{{Vigil\|BBC}}'' as DS Kirsten Longacre
20	* 2022: ''Film/{{Death on the Nile\|2022}}'' as Louise Bourget
21	* 2022: ''[[Series/TheTimeTravelersWife2022 The Time Traveler's Wife]]'' as Clare Abshire
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23	!!Tropes relating to her performances:
24	* IAmVeryBritish: Inverted. Her breakout roles gave her strong regional British accents (e.g. Gwen's clear Yorkshire and Ygritte's accent, which is somewhere in the Scottish Borders/[[OopNorth far North of England]] area). However, her actual speaking accent is RP (see, e.g., [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k55Hm59emgw this interview]] with Creator/SethMeyers), even though she was born and raised in Aberdeenshire. This is less surprising when you realise that ''most'' of the traditional Scottish nobility (of which she is emphatically a member) speak RP as a ''class'' marker (they pick it up from their family and from school).
25	* IronyAsSheIsCast: In both her breakout roles, as Gwen Dawson in ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' and Ygritte in ''Series/GameOfThrones'' she plays characters at the very bottom of the socioeconomic ladder (or in Ygritte's case ''outside'' the ladder entirely) despite the fact that in real life she is as blue-blooded an aristocrat as they come.
26	* RomanceOnTheSet: She and Kit Harington played onscreen love interests, Ygritte and Jon Snow respectively, on ''Game of Thrones'' and subsequently fell in love in real life; they eventually married in 2018.
27	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: She was initially cast in the lead role of ''Film/TheTurning'', an adaptation of the ''Literature/TheTurnOfTheScrew'' (which at this stage was titled ''Haunted''), but ending up dropping out of the project and was later replaced by Creator/MackenzieDavis.

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