Here's Why You Recognize Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy's Age-Gap Love Interest Leo Woodall
The actor, who had a breakout performance in Season 2 of The White Lotus, plays Bridget's new love interest.
Bridget Jones has a new man in her life in the upcoming movie Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. The film is the fourth installment in the rom-com franchise, coming just shy of a decade after the previous movie, Bridget Jones’s Baby. In the new movie, Bridget (Renée Zellweger) finds herself newly widowed, but the newly-turned fiftysomething finds herself dating a 29-year-old, a young man named Roxster.
In the movie, Roxster is played by Leo Woodall, a rising young actor who broke out on the scene a few years ago. Before Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy premieres on Peacock on February 13, here’s everything you need to know about one of Bridget’s new love interests.
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Leo Woodall's Early Life
Leo Woodall was born in Shepherd's Bush, West London, on September 14, 1996. He has two older siblings, a sister, Constance, and a brother, Gabriel. Woodall’s parents both studied acting and met in drama school, though while his father, Andrew, worked as an actor, his mother, Jane Mary Ashton, never pursued it as a career. Acting runs even deeper in Woodall’s family, as he's a descendant of American silent film star Maxine Elliott.
Woodall decided he wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps when he was in his late teens, and he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in acting from Arts Educational School in 2019. His first professional acting credit came that year with a one-episode appearance in the British medical drama Holby City, but his career really began in earnest in 2021.
Leo Woodall's Movie & TV Career
Leo Woodall’s first major acting credit came in 2021 when he appeared in the Tom Holland-led dramatic thriller Cherry, directed by the Russo Brothers. After that, he had a string of memorable TV appearances, starting with two episodes of Peacock’s Vampire Academy. In 2022, he had what could be called his true breakout role when he played Jack, a crass-but-charming Essex boy who does some questionable things for his uncle while on vacation in Sicily, in Season 2 of HBO’s The White Lotus.
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He then appeared in two episodes of another Russo Brothers project, their Prime Video spy thriller series Citadel, and in 2024, he had his first leading role in Netflix’s One Day. In that romantic drama, Woodall played Dexter Mayhew, and the series followed him and a young woman he met (Ambika Mod) over the course of nearly a decade and a half, with each episode taking place on the same day each year. He followed that up with another leading role in the Apple TV+ series Prime Target, a thriller about a post-graduate student whose work might have cracked the code to hack every computer in the world.
Woodall will next appear in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, and then he has three films that are either in post-production or currently filming. Nomad is a sci-fi flick starring Woodall as a man who uncontrollably transports himself to somewhere on Earth every 12 hours. In Nuremberg, he plays a Jewish translator who spoke to Nazis during the post-WWII Nuremberg trials. Finally, Tuner, which is still filming, is a thriller co-starring Dustin Hoffman.
Who is Leo Woodall dating?
Leo Woodall is dating his White Lotus Season 2 co-star Meghann Fahy. The actress, who is a few years older than Woodall, had been acting on the stage and screen since 2010, but The White Lotus was a big breakout role for her, too. Woodall and Fahy’s characters don’t interact much during the season, but the actors became close during filming.
Initially, the pair were cagey about confirming whether or not they were dating, but they went Instagram official in February 2024.
Fahy will next appear in Blumhouse and Universal’s thriller Drop, and the Netflix dark comedy Sirens, both of which debut this year.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is available to stream on Peacock.
