Background and career
Rose Eleanor Arbuthnot-Leslie (born 9 February 1987) is a Scottish actress. She is best known for playing Gwen Dawson in the ITV drama series Downton Abbey; Ygritte in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones; Maia Rindell in three seasons of the CBS All Access legal and political drama The Good Fight; and Clare Abshire in HBO's The Time Traveler's Wife.
Leslie was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and raised at Lickleyhead Castle in Aberdeenshire, her family's 15th-century ancestral seat, where she lived until the age of 10. Her father, Sebastian Arbuthnot-Leslie, is the Chieftain of the Aberdeenshire branch of the Scottish Clan Leslie. Her mother is Candida Mary Sibyl "Candy" Leslie (née Weld) of Clan Fraser of Lovat, whose maternal great-grandfather was Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat and a descendant of King Charles II. She is one of five children, having both elder brother and sister and a younger brother and sister. Her family currently lives at the 12th-century Wardhill Castle in Old Rayne.
She was first educated at Rayne North School in Aberdeenshire. At 10, she went to Ermitage International School in Maisons-Laffitte, France, where her family lived for three years. Upon their return to the UK, from 2000 to 2005, she was sent to Millfield, a boarding school in Street, Somerset, before spending three years at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She won a BASSC certificate in stage combat and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in 2008.
One of her first professional acting jobs, in 2007, was narrating the BBC Radio documentary series The British Slave Trade: Abolition, Parliament and People.
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Net-worth figure: Celebrity Net Worth (2021-01-07), in USD. Biography and career facts: the person's Wikipedia article and linked reporting. Snapshot date for all StarWorth figures: 28 October 2026.
