Louie Leonardo
- Actor
- Stunts
- Producer
Based in New York and Los Angeles, Louie manages his time between the
East and West Coast. Louie Leonardo was director Jim Hanon's first
choice for the important leading role of the Waodani warrior, Mincayani
for the movie "End of the Spear."
Louie Leonardo is extremely athletic: horse training & riding, swimming, scuba diving, boxing, track and field, cycling, skiing, roller and ice skating, tennis and racket ball are but a few of his talents. Louie Leonardo did military training with the U.S. Navy, and is proficient in several languages.
He trained as an actor in Los Angeles with Janet Alhanti and Dr. Alfred Rossi. In New York: Shakespeare with the American Globe Theatre and Classical Theatre in England at the London Academy of Performing Arts, where he played in a production of "Wind in the Willows." In Los Angeles he appeared with the Pacific Theater Ensemble in "Camino Real," among other stage appearances, with his most recent as Chief Crazy Horse in the Sacramento Theatre Company's production "Crazy Horse & Custer." His stage work in New York includes "The Tempest," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the New York Dinner Theater production of "Godfather's Messhugener Wedding," "Dog Play" at the Lincoln Center Institute, work with the Spanish Repertory Theatre, PRTT and at Capitol Repertory Theatre's production of Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer Prize drama "Anna in the Tropics" amongst others.
Louie has been seen frequently on television in such as "All My Children," "One Life to Live," "Law & Order," "ER," "NCIS-LA," "UnderCovers," "Los Angeles De Charlie aka Charlie's Angels," among others. He starred in television movies such as "Heroes of the Desert Storm" and "Silhouette."
He has appeared in a number of motion pictures, including "Fragments," and "Exile," director Ron Shelton's "Play It To The Bone," "Shaft," directed by John Singleton, director Fred Schepisi's "It Runs in the Family" and in Boulevard H opposite Malcolm McDowell, written & directed by Jae Thomas.
Louie's first Hollywood experience was under the direction of the renowned fashion photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber, in Bruce's Academy Award Nominated Docudrama "Let's Get Lost," about the life and times of trumpet player Chet Baker.
Louie Leonardo is extremely athletic: horse training & riding, swimming, scuba diving, boxing, track and field, cycling, skiing, roller and ice skating, tennis and racket ball are but a few of his talents. Louie Leonardo did military training with the U.S. Navy, and is proficient in several languages.
He trained as an actor in Los Angeles with Janet Alhanti and Dr. Alfred Rossi. In New York: Shakespeare with the American Globe Theatre and Classical Theatre in England at the London Academy of Performing Arts, where he played in a production of "Wind in the Willows." In Los Angeles he appeared with the Pacific Theater Ensemble in "Camino Real," among other stage appearances, with his most recent as Chief Crazy Horse in the Sacramento Theatre Company's production "Crazy Horse & Custer." His stage work in New York includes "The Tempest," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the New York Dinner Theater production of "Godfather's Messhugener Wedding," "Dog Play" at the Lincoln Center Institute, work with the Spanish Repertory Theatre, PRTT and at Capitol Repertory Theatre's production of Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer Prize drama "Anna in the Tropics" amongst others.
Louie has been seen frequently on television in such as "All My Children," "One Life to Live," "Law & Order," "ER," "NCIS-LA," "UnderCovers," "Los Angeles De Charlie aka Charlie's Angels," among others. He starred in television movies such as "Heroes of the Desert Storm" and "Silhouette."
He has appeared in a number of motion pictures, including "Fragments," and "Exile," director Ron Shelton's "Play It To The Bone," "Shaft," directed by John Singleton, director Fred Schepisi's "It Runs in the Family" and in Boulevard H opposite Malcolm McDowell, written & directed by Jae Thomas.
Louie's first Hollywood experience was under the direction of the renowned fashion photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber, in Bruce's Academy Award Nominated Docudrama "Let's Get Lost," about the life and times of trumpet player Chet Baker.
