📖Biography
David Jeremy Leon, better known simply as David Leon, is an English actor, director, producer and writer. As an actor, he is best known for his roles as Othello on Lives of the Saints and as Malcolm in the Guy Ritchie’s film RocknRolla. He played Joe Ashworth on the ITV detective series Vera from 2011 to 2014. As a director, he has directed several short films Man and Boy, Father and Orthodox. He completed his first feature-length film, also called Orthodox, in 2015. David was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne as David Jeremy Leon. His mother, Ann J Brown, was a secretary while his father, Anthony N Leon, worked at a power plant. He is Jewish on his father’s side and describes himself as half-Jewish. He was a talented footballer, briefly played for the Blackburn Rovers Football Club.