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Leonardo (2021 TV series)

Leonardo (2021 TV series): eight-part drama on Leonardo da Vinci created by Frank Spotnitz and Steve Thompson, starring Aidan Turner, framed by a fictional 1506 murder investigation; Rai 1 premiere 23 March 2021, Amazon Prime Video from 16 April 2021.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974, Los Angeles) is an American actor and environmentalist, Oscar winner for The Revenant (2016), star of Titanic and Scorsese films, UN Messenger of Peace for climate, and founder of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.

Leonardo DiCaprio filmography

Leonardo DiCaprio filmography: the screen credits of American actor and producer Leonardo DiCaprio (b. 1974), from Critters 3 (1991) through Titanic (1997) and Scorsese collaborations to The Revenant (2015, Oscar win) and One Battle After Another (2025).

Leonardo Nam

Leonardo Nam (born 1979, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-Australian actor known for Felix Lutz in Westworld, Morimoto in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and Maddox Hatter in Disney's Descendants films, and founder of Good on Ya Productions.

Leonor Varela

Leonor Varela (Leonor Magdalena Varela Palma), Chilean actress and writer born 1972 in Santiago, daughter of biologist Francisco Varela. Starred as Cleopatra (ABC 1999) and Nyssa in Blade II (2002), wrote Ir al Cielo y Volver, and is an ocean-conservation activist.

Leopoldstadt (play)

Leopoldstadt is a play by Tom Stoppard about a Jewish family in Vienna from 1899 to 1955, tracing assimilation and the Holocaust. It won the 2023 Tony Award for Best Play.

Leos Carax

Leos Carax, pseudonym of Alex Oscar Dupont (born 1960), is a French director and screenwriter of Boy Meets Girl, Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, Holy Motors, and Annette.

Leprechaun (film series)

Leprechaun film series: American horror-comedy franchise begun with Leprechaun (1993), starring Warwick Davis as Lubdan the gold-obsessed killer leprechaun; eight films by 2018, including Origins (2014) and Returns (2018).

Leprechaun (film)

Leprechaun is a 1993 American horror-comedy directed by Mark Jones, starring Warwick Davis and Jennifer Aniston, made for under $1 million by Trimark Pictures and launching an eight-film horror franchise.

Leprechaun: Origins

Leprechaun: Origins (2014) is a horror reboot of the Leprechaun franchise, directed by Zach Lipovsky, starring wrestler Dylan "Hornswoggle" Postl, produced by WWE Studios and Lionsgate, unrelated to prior films, and holding 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Lera Abova

Lera Abova (Лера Абова), born Valeria Smirnova, 1992, Slavgorod, Siberia, is a Russian-German model and actress: David Sims discovery, Vogue covers, film debut as Maude in Anna (2019), and Nico Robin in Netflix's One Piece season 2.

Leroy & Stitch

Leroy & Stitch (リロイ&スティッチ) is Disney's 2006 animated TV film, the fourth Lilo & Stitch movie and finale of Lilo & Stitch: The Series, in which Dr. Hämsterviel clones Leroy, Stitch's evil twin (Experiment 629), into an army defeated by the song "Aloha Oe."

Leroy Jethro Gibbs

Leroy Jethro Gibbs, also called Jethro Gibbs, is the fictional NCIS Major Case Response Team leader from NCIS, played by Mark Harmon 2003–2021 and Austin Stowell in NCIS: Origins, known for Gibbs' Rules and four marriages.

Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob

Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob) is a 1973 French-Italian comedy by Gérard Oury starring Louis de Funès as a racist industrialist disguised as a rabbi; top French box-office hit of 1973 with over 7 million admissions.

Les Bains Douches (nightclub)

Les Bains Douches, later Les Bains, a Paris nightclub at 7 rue du Bourg l'Abbé opened 21 December 1978 in the 1885 Guerbois bathhouse, with Starck interiors, Joy Division and Depeche Mode concerts, Boukobza and the Guettas, reopened as a hotel-club in 2015.

Les Bonnes Femmes

Les Bonnes Femmes (The Good Girls) is Claude Chabrol's 1960 French New Wave drama about four Parisian appliance-store shopgirls, Jane, Ginette, Jacqueline, and Rita, whose dreams of love end in disappointment; a flop on release, restored in 2000 and now admired.

Les Bronzés

Les Bronzés (French Fried Vacation), 1978 French comedy by Patrice Leconte adapting the Splendid troupe's play Amour, coquillages et crustacés; filmed in Côte d'Ivoire, drew about 2.3-2.5 million admissions and spawned a 1979 ski sequel.

Les Bronzés font du ski

Les Bronzés font du ski (1979) is a French comedy by Patrice Leconte and the Splendid troupe, the sequel to Les Bronzés, set on a ski holiday at Val-d'Isère; it drew about 1.5 million admissions and became a cult film through TV reruns.

Les Burgraves

Les Burgraves is a historical drama in verse by Victor Hugo, first performed at the Comédie-Française in Paris in 1843 and set among the ruined castles of the Rhine.

Les Cousins

Les Cousins (The Cousins) is Claude Chabrol's 1959 French New Wave drama, Golden Bear winner at Berlin, in which provincial law student Charles (Gérard Blain) loses Florence (Juliette Mayniel) to his cousin Paul (Jean-Claude Brialy) and dies by Paul's hand.

Les Dawson

Les Dawson (Leslie Dawson) was an English comedian and pianist known for deadpan monologues, mother-in-law jokes, the drag characters Cissie and Ada, and deliberately bad piano playing.

Les Dennis

Les Dennis (Leslie Dennis Heseltine, born 1953, Liverpool) is an English comedian, presenter and actor, host of ITV's Family Fortunes 1987–2002, formerly half of a double act with Dustin Gee, later a stage and screen actor and Strictly 2023 contestant.

Les Diaboliques (film)

Les Diaboliques, released in English as Diabolique, is a 1955 French suspense film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, adapted from Boileau-Narcejac's 1952 novel, whose twist ending influenced Hitchcock's Psycho.

Les Fugitifs

Les Fugitifs is a 1986 French comedy directed by Francis Veber, starring Gérard Depardieu as a reformed bank robber taken hostage by Pierre Richard's clumsy robber.

Les Girls

Les Girls (Cole Porter's Les Girls) is George Cukor's 1957 MGM musical comedy, 114 minutes, starring Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, and Taina Elg in a Rashomon-style libel-suit plot; it won the Oscar for Orry-Kelly's costumes.

Les Indes galantes

Les Indes galantes, RCT 44, is Rameau's 1735 opéra-ballet on a libretto by Louis Fuzelier, a prologue plus four entrées set in Turkey, Peru, Persia, and North America; famous for the Les Sauvages entrée and Clément Cogitore's 2019 hip-hop staging at the Paris Opera.

Les Kurbas

Les Kurbas (Лесь Курбас), born Oleksander-Zenon Kurbas, was a Ukrainian theater director who founded Berezil and the modern Ukrainian theater, executed in the Stalinist purges in 1937.

Les Maîtres du temps

Les Maîtres du temps (Time Masters) is a 1982 French animated science fiction film by René Laloux, designed by Moebius, adapted from Stefan Wul's L'Orphelin de Perdide, animated in Budapest.

Les Misérables (1998 film)

Les Misérables (1998) is Bille August's non-musical film adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel, starring Liam Neeson as Valjean, Geoffrey Rush as Javert, Uma Thurman, and Claire Danes; produced by Mandalay Entertainment, released May 1, 1998.

Les Misérables (2012 film)

Les Misérables (2012) is Tom Hooper's film adaptation of the Schönberg-Boublil stage musical and Hugo's novel, starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Anne Hathaway, with live on-set singing; it won three Oscars, three Golden Globes, and four BAFTAs.