---
name: "Cynthia Cleese"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/cynthia-cleese"
fi1m_id: "cynthia-cleese"
imdb_id: "nm0165927"
tmdb_id: 8948
wikidata_id: "Q448479"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "17 February 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:46:28.824802+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Cynthia Cleese

## Identity

Cynthia Cleese

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/cynthia-cleese
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** cynthia-cleese
- **IMDb ID:** nm0165927
- **TMDB ID:** 8948
- **Wikidata ID:** Q448479
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q448479, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165927/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8948

Actor. Born 17 February 1971 in Croydon, London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 17 February 1971, Croydon, London, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q448479, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165927/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8948

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*A Fish Called Wanda*](https://film.one/film/a-fish-called-wanda.md) (83)

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## Biography

Cynthia Cleese is an English actress. She was born on 17 February 1971 in Croydon, Surrey, England, the daughter of actors John Cleese and Connie Booth.

She made her film debut in *A Fish Called Wanda* (1988), playing Portia Leach and credited as Cynthia Caylor. She later appeared as Pip in *Fierce Creatures* (1997), again alongside her father, and had a role in the 1998 short film *I'm on Fire*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, grokipedia.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Fish Called Wanda* (1988), Fi1m 83, as Portia — [page](https://film.one/film/a-fish-called-wanda.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Fierce Creatures* (1997), as Pip
- *A Fish Called Wanda* (1988), as Portia — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/a-fish-called-wanda.md)

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