Moir Leslie

The Actress

Moir’s theatre work includes repertory seasons at Nottingham, Salisbury, Chesterfield, and Cardiff; the West End productions of For Services Rendered, Reflections and Troubadour and numerous British and international tours including Ariel in The Tempest (to Sir Anthony Quayle’s Prospero), Anya in The Cherry Orchard, Jill in The Skin Game, Essie in The Devil’s Disciple and Eliza in Pygmalion. Moir also performed in several plays by Alan Ayckbourn, including the roles of Ginny in Relatively Speaking, Marge in Absent Friends, Rachel in Seasons Greetings, Jill in Man of the Moment and Mary Featherstone in How the Other Half Loves.

Her television work includes Grafters, The Bill, Pride & Prejudice, Unexplained Laughter, Dalziel & Pascoe, The Choir That Wouldn’t Sing. Moir has worked extensively on Radio’s 3, 4 and World Service, (where she first met Richard Derrington), in over three hundred productions including several series of the successful comedy Flying the Flag, several episodes of Yes Minister, Louisa in Cousin Bazillio, Beatrice Potter in Exit Miss Potter, Catherine Mansfield in The Voyage, Lady Isabel Vane in East Lynne, Maggie in Mill on the Floss, Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, Jessica in The Merchanr of Venice, Ismène in Antigone and the title roles in Brontë‘s Shirley and Barrie’s Mary Rose but she is probably best known for playing Sophie Barlow and The Reverend Janet Fisher in The Archers. She has directed Educating Rita and Relatively Speaking for Richmond Productions touring the Middle East, Pakistan, India and Egypt.

More recently she has played Mrs Keller in The Miracle Worker, Mrs Broome in Mary Broome, Mona Kent in Dames at Sea, Mrs Baxter in The Mollusc directed by Tom Littler and Mrs Smallwood in Country Magic and appeared in the short films The Secret, Remote, Vigilante, Holding On and the soon to be released feature Vigilante.