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Les Misérables (2019 film)

Les Misérables (2019) is Ladj Ly's debut French drama about BAC police in Montfermeil, Seine-Saint-Denis; it shared Cannes' 2019 Jury Prize, won 4 Césars including Best Film, and was Oscar-nominated for Best International Feature Film.

Les Misérables (2026 film)

Les Misérables (2026 film), also called Les Misérables Partie 1: a French non-musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel directed by Fred Cavayé, starring Vincent Lindon as Jean Valjean and Tahar Rahim as Javert, released 14 October 2026 by StudioCanal.

Les Stroud

Les Stroud, aka Survivorman, is a Canadian filmmaker, musician, and author who created the Survival TV genre with Survivorman (2004), filming his solo wilderness survivals himself across 25-plus locations.

Les Sylphides

Les Sylphides (Chopiniana): one-act plotless ballet by Michel Fokine to Chopin piano music, premiered as Chopiniana in 1907 and renamed by Diaghilev for the 2 June 1909 Ballets Russes Paris debut with Pavlova, Karsavina, and Nijinsky; the first abstract classical ballet.

Les Twins

Les Twins are French identical twin dancers Laurent and Larry Bourgeois (born 1988, Sarcelles), New Style hip-hop freestyle specialists, Criminalz Crew founders, 2011 Juste Debout champions, and longtime Beyoncé collaborators.

Les Vampires

Les Vampires: 1915–1916 French silent crime serial in ten episodes by Louis Feuillade for Gaumont, starring Musidora as Irma Vep (anagram of vampire), a jewel-thief gang, not supernatural; praised by the Surrealists.

Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard

Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard is a 2023 French-Belgian family comedy by Pierre-François Martin-Laval, adapted from Jean-Claude Mourlevat's 2004 novel, starring Christian Clavier and Isabelle Nanty; released 28 June 2023, 516,327 French admissions.

Les Visiteurs

Les Visiteurs (The Visitors) is a 1993 French time-travel comedy by Jean-Marie Poiré starring Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, and César winner Valérie Lemercier; 13.7 million admissions, sequel, and 2001 remake Just Visiting.

Les Visiteurs 2: The Corridors of Time

Les Visiteurs 2: The Corridors of Time (Les Visiteurs II: Les couloirs du temps) is a 1998 French time-travel comedy by Jean-Marie Poiré, sequel to Les Visiteurs, starring Jean Reno and Christian Clavier; 8 million French admissions, 140-million-franc budget, Muriel Robin replacing Valérie Lemercier.

Les Visiteurs du Soir

Les Visiteurs du soir (The Devil's Envoys) is a 1942 Marcel Carné film written by Jacques Prévert and Pierre Laroche, a medieval fantasy of the Devil's minstrels defeated by love, made during the Nazi occupation and read as its allegory.

Lesa Lesa (லேசா லேசா)

Lesa Lesa (லேசா லேசா), also Laysa Laysa, is a 2003 Tamil romantic comedy directed by Priyadarshan, produced by Vikram Singh, starring Shaam, Trisha, and Madhavan, a remake of Summer in Bethlehem, released 16 May 2003.

Lesbian pornography

Lesbian pornography: porn featuring lesbian performers or made for lesbians, distinct from girl-on-girl scenes for male audiences; history from Fatale Video (1985) and On Our Backs to the 2001 AVN crossover, plus Pornhub audience data and feminist critiques.

Lesbian Space Princess

Lesbian Space Princess: 2025 Australian adult animated sci-fi comedy by Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese; princess Saira rescues ex Kiki from Straight White Maliens; Teddy Award winner, Berlinale 2025.

Lesbian Vampire Killers

Lesbian Vampire Killers (LVK, US title Vampire Killers) is a 2009 British comedy horror directed by Phil Claydon, starring James Corden and Mathew Horne as friends fighting a cursed village's lesbian vampires; it was critically panned but opened third at the UK box office.

Lesley Ann Warren

Lesley Ann Warren (born 1946, New York) is an American actress and singer, star of 1965's Cinderella, Oscar-nominated for Victor/Victoria, Miss Scarlet in Clue, Golden Globe winner for 79 Park Avenue.

Lesley Dunlop

Lesley Jane Dunlop (born 1956, Newcastle upon Tyne) is a British actress known for Zoë Angell in May to December, Anna Kirkwall in Where the Heart Is, and Brenda Walker in Emmerdale (2008–2024).

Lesley Joseph

Lesley Joseph is an English actress and broadcaster best known as Dorien Green in the sitcom Birds of a Feather, which she played from 1989 to 1998.

Lesley Judd

Lesley Judd, born in 1946, is a British former television presenter and dancer, best known as a long-serving host of the BBC children's program Blue Peter from 1972 to 1979.

Lesley Manville

Lesley Manville (born 1956, Brighton) is an English stage, film, and TV actress, Mike Leigh's most-cast collaborator, Oscar-nominated for Phantom Thread, Princess Margaret in The Crown, and winner of two Oliviers and a Tony.

Lesley Nicol (actress)

Lesley Nicol (born 1953) is an English actress known as cook Mrs. Patmore in Downton Abbey (2010-2015) and its three films, a three-time SAG ensemble winner, with West End credits including Mamma Mia! and East Is East.

Lesley Sharp

Lesley Sharp (born 1960, Manchester) is a British actress known for Rita, Sue and Bob Too!, The Full Monty, Scott & Bailey, Afterlife, Before We Die, Red Eye, and Bergerac series 2.

Lesley-Ann Brandt

Lesley-Ann Brandt (born 1981, Cape Town) is a South African-born, New Zealand-raised actress known for Mazikeen in Lucifer, Naevia in Spartacus, and Pearl Thorne in The Ones Who Live.

Lesley-Anne Down

Lesley-Anne Down (born 1954, London) is an English actress known as Georgina Worsley in Upstairs, Downstairs, Madeline Fabray in North and South, and Jacqueline Marone in 779 episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful.

Leslie Ash

Leslie Ash (born 1960) is an English actress known as Deborah in Men Behaving Badly, Karen Buckley in Where the Heart Is, and Vanessa Lytton in Holby City; her career was interrupted by a 2004 MSSA hospital infection.

Leslie Bibb

Leslie Bibb (born 1974, Bismarck, North Dakota) is an American actress known for Popular, Talladega Nights, Iron Man, The White Lotus season 3, Palm Royale, and a 2026 Emmy nomination for Hacks.

Leslie Caron

Leslie Caron (born 1 July 1931, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French-American actress and ballet-trained dancer discovered by Gene Kelly for An American in Paris (1951), later starring in Lili and Gigi, with two Oscar nominations and a 2007 Emmy.

Leslie Charleson

Leslie Charleson (1945-2025), American actress, played Dr. Monica Quartermaine on ABC's General Hospital from 1977 to December 2023, over 2,000 episodes, four Daytime Emmy nominations, longest-tenured cast member.

Leslie Crowther

Leslie Crowther (Leslie Douglas Sargent Crowther, 1933-1996), English comedian and presenter. Hosted Crackerjack, the original UK The Price Is Right (ITV 1984-88, 100 episodes) and Stars in Their Eyes; career ended by a 1992 car crash.

Leslie David Baker

Leslie David Baker (born 1958, Chicago) is an American actor who played Stanley Hudson on NBC's The Office (2005-2013) after a Chicago city-administration career, and later co-owns a Honey Baked Ham shop.

Leslie Easterbrook

Leslie Easterbrook (born 1948 or 1949) is an American actress known as Sgt. Debbie Callahan in the Police Academy films (1984–1994) and as Mother Firefly in Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects (2005), after playing Rhonda Lee on Laverne & Shirley.