Louie Leonardo

Short Biography

Based in New York and Los Angeles, Louie manages his time between the East Coast and Los Angeles. 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 in 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 has appeared with the Pacific Theater Ensemble in "Camino Real, " among other stage appearances on the West Coast. His other 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 and many other.Louie Leonardo has been seen frequently on television in such episodic series as "All My Children, " "One Life to Live, " "Law & Order, " "ER, " and "Los Angeles De Charlie aka Charlie`s Angels, " among others. He also starred in the television movies "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, and director Fred Schepisi`s "A Few Good Years."