The love interest of Mr Bones in the latest movie, Leeanda Reddy is a  BA Honours Graduate from the University of Natal.

Leeanda Reddy was part of the success story of eTV’s daily drama Scandal, which shot from tepid beginnings in 2005 to over a million viewers within a year. Leeanda’s character Vanashree Devan,  a tough political reporter determined to succeed in a male dominated field, is a universal story. She will soon be seen on the popular daily soap Isidingo.  But the real Leeanda is far more complex.

As a small screen actress, she has had leading roles in eTV, SABC 2 and MNet dramas, including Snitch, Zero Tolerance, The Res, Scandal and Backstage. She worked on eTV’s Citylife and MNet’s Big City as a presenter.

But  live theatre is her real love and it keeps calling her back to the stage. She’s  passionate about empowering people and has utilized her talent for performance art in various social awareness programmes since student days. Her most recent project was a stage play addressing the issue of  gender violence at the Market Theatre.

A BA Honours Graduate from the University of Natal, her stage career has been prolific, with leading roles in productions ranging from Shakespeare to comedy to one woman plays. She was nominated by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations to perform the hit one woman play “At the Edge” at the international theatre festival in New Delhi and in seven other states in India, towards promoting artistic and cultural relations between South Africa and India.

Accolades include the FNB Vita Nomination in 1999 for Best Lead Actress in the play Beyond Cavalry; another FNB Vita Nomination in 2000 for Best Lead Actress in Shakespeare’s 12th Night and the Mababongwe Womens Award for Achievement in the Arts in 2003.

Add prestigious corporate MC gigs like the Mr South Africa and the KZN NTVA Awards, various corporate theatre productions, television commercials, radio voice spots and a German movie and one can deduce that Leeanda Reddy is a woman who gets the job done - well.

Leeanda “On the Edge” speaker:
Leeanda can offer excerpts from her hit one-woman show called “on the Edge” which revolves around the life stories of thirty different women, or she can prepare a talk including comedy, tailored to the audience.