Leila Farzad
Actor · Born December 30, 1981 (44) · Westminster, London, England, UK
Leila Effat Farzad (Arabic: ليلى عفت Persian: لیلا عفت فرزاد; born December 30, 1981) is a British actress. She is known for her role as Naomi Jones in the Sky Atlantic series I Hate Suzie (2020–2022), which earned her a British Academy Television Award nomination. Farzad was born in London to Iranian parents. She was inspired to pursue acting by National Theatre productions her aunt took her to see, however, her parents requested she get a degree from Oxbridge first. She first studied Modern Languages at Worcester College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in French and Italian Literature. She then went on to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, which she said "felt like home". Farzad began her career with a voice role in the third and fourth series of the Channel 5 animated children's series Peppa Pig. She made her live action television debut in an episode of the ITV police procedural Law & Order: UK and her professional stage debut as the titular role in Miriam. Gonzalez. Durantez. at Theatre503. This was followed by roles in Blue Remembered Hills at Chichester Festival Theatre, the all female Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre in London, Richard II at Shakespeare's Globe. She also appeared in the ITV anthology Innocent. Farzad landed her first main role was I Hate Suzie as Naomi Jones, Suzie's (Billie Piper) manager and friend. The series was released in 2020 on Sky Atlantic and HBO Max to critical acclaim, and Farzad was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress. Farzad reprised her role in I Hate Suzie's second installment titled I Hate Suzie Too in 2022. Also that year, Farzad joined the cast of Avenue 5 for its second season and appeared alongside Josh Hartnett in The Fear Index, also on Sky. In 2023, she starred in the BBC crime drama Better.
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Biography from TMDB.
- December 30, 1981 (44)
- Westminster, London, England, UK
- Actor
- 16 on MovieCove · 23 credits in all
What are Leila Farzad's films like?
Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Power and Morality.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
Light 1 · Serious 1 · Dark 1
Grounded 1 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0
A split, not a type: Gentle 1 · Charged 0 · Intense 2
Steady 1 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 1
Resolved 1 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 1
Roles they play
Usually the Threshold guardian: 2 of 4 analyzed roles.
- Allyas Naomi Jones in I Hate Suzie (2020)
- Heroas Lou Slack in Better (2023)
- Threshold guardianas Stratilia in The Decameron (2024)
- Threshold guardianas Dolly in Pose (2025)
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet1
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Leila Farzad's films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 16 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (5).
Subscription and free streaming for Leila Farzad's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
23 credits, 16 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
Two Weeks in August (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Pose(2025)
Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all shows
Jay Kelly(2025)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
Good Luck Fuck Face (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Midcredits score: 66th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films
Kaos(2024)
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all shows
The Decameron(2024)
Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all shows
The Marvels(2023)
Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all films
Better(2023)
Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all shows
I Hate Suzie Too (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
The Fear Index (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Landscapers(2021)
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all shows
I Hate Suzie(2020)
Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all shows
Avenue 5(2020)
Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all shows
Richard II (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
This Time with Alan Partridge (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Innocent(2018)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
Cuffs(2015)
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows
Black Mirror(2011)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
Married Single Other (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Career shape
Star power in the 91st percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 23 titles from 2010 to 2026.
Biggest box office
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar (2018)
Highest rated
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar (2018)
Most popular right now
Pose (2025)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30.
How do Leila Farzad's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 57th percentile, the median of all 6; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 52nd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up2
- 50th to 74th7
- 25th to 49th5
- Below 25th2
Shape of the crowd
7 of their 16 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved2
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser7
- Broadly Agreed2
- Mixed4
Reviewers score the acting 73/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 82, detractors 41. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.