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Allen Leech (born 18 May 1981 in Ireland) is an Irish stage, television and film actor, best known for his role as Marcus Agrippa in the 2007 HBO television series Rome, and his role as chauffeur Tom Branson in ITV 2010 television series Downton Abbey. Allen Leech, from Killiney in south Dublin, attended St. Michael's College in Ballsbridge and graduated in 1999. He then studied Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College, Dublin. While a first-year Trinity student he secured a plum role in Foresight's production of Conor McPherson's This Lime Tree Bower. This student production propelled... MORE

Allen Leech (born 18 May 1981 in Ireland) is an Irish stage, television and film actor, best known for his role as Marcus Agrippa in the 2007 HBO television series Rome, and his role as chauffeur Tom Branson in ITV 2010 television series Downton Abbey. Allen Leech, from Killiney in south Dublin, attended St. Michael's College in Ballsbridge and graduated in 1999. He then studied Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College, Dublin. While a first-year Trinity student he secured a plum role in Foresight's production of Conor McPherson's This Lime Tree Bower. This student production propelled him out into professional theatre and helped get him his first agent. He appeared as Willi in the Queen and Peacock, at the Garter Lane Arts Centre. The following years, Leech was in Tom Murphy's The Morning After Optimism and then Hugh Leonard's Da at the Abbey. Since then, Leech has moved with ease from plays to films. Allen's breakthrough film performance was in Cowboys and Angels, in which he played Vincent, a gay fashion student, followed by the 2004 cross country caper film Man About Dog, in which Leech plays Mo-Chara, one of three Belfast scallies who get in way above their heads. Allen LESS