Biography

Leah Loftin is an American actor and filmmaker whose work was called "fearless" by The New York Times. She recently guest starred as Helen Field in The Blacklist (NBC), as Maggie 'Tweetie' McGuire in New Amsterdam (NBC) and can be seen in the limited series The Green Veil starring John Leguizamo (THE NETWORK).

As a filmmaker, Leah was recently awarded the UK's Silver Medal at the 1.4 Awards for Brilliant Filmmaking in Nonfiction, and her experimental film work was a finalist for the Aesthetica Art Prize. Leah was named an "emerging director to discover" by SHOOT Magazine and her work has received funding from New York State Council on the Arts and the LearningTimes Foundation.

Since directing her first film in 2020, her films have premiered at a number of OSCAR and BAFTA-qualifying film festivals including DOC NYC, Ann Arbor Film Festival (opening night selection), Aesthetica Film Festival (UK), Edmonton International Film Festival, FLICKERS' Rhode Island International Film Festival, RPM Revolutions Per Minute, Shorts on Tap London, garnering awards in Berlin, Austin, Bucharest, and Toronto. Her most recent film, a hybrid documentary adapted from the testimonials of a woman in Kherson during the initial weeks of the war in Ukraine, has won numerous awards and screened at film festivals across the globe, called "a remarkable piece of filmmaking" (Shortstick Films) and is currently distributed by GOOD DOCS.

As an actor, Leah has performed theatrically Off-Broadway and throughout the US, Canada, and Russia. Her film roles began in the Oscar-winning film Monster's Ball, opposite Heath Ledger and Billy Bob Thornton, and she has appeared in award-winning independent films that have screened across the globe. Formally trained with the Moscow Art Theatre (MXAT) at A.R.T., Leah was selected for an extended theatre performance residency in Moscow, working with the acclaimed SounDrama theatre company. She has been cast by a number of internationally celebrated directors, including Vladimir Pankov and Kirill Serebrennikov.

An original cast member of the world premiere of a previously unpublished play by Tennessee Williams, Leah spent nearly two decades creating vibrant theatre as a member of theatre companies in NYC, New Orleans, and Toronto. A proud native Texan, Leah was born and raised in the small town of Crosby, Texas.
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