Leandro was an inhabitant of the planet Delta Leonis. He was a bipedal being with lionesque features. His eyes glowed in the dark, and he was also capable of breathing fire.
He crash-landed on Earth in 1651 and befriended Lady Me - the assumed identity of the immortal Viking woman known as Ashildr. She was a local landowner now. Leandro claimed to have escaped the persecution of his people, fleeing through a portal generated by a gem called the Eyes of Hades. He had lost this in the crash and wanted Me to help him retrieve it from a rich neighbour who had found and gifted it to his wife.
An attempt to waylay the neighbour's coach, with Me posing as Highwayman "The Nightmare", failed when the Doctor intervened. He was tracking the gem's power signature.
Later, Me and the Doctor burgled the neighbour's mansion and retrieved the Eyes. To power it, someone's lifeforce was needed, and a fellow Highwayman named Sam Swift was selected. He was to be hanged at Tyburn.
Me discovered that she had been tricked by Leandro. He was really the advance scout of a Leonian invasion force, poised to come through the portal. When Me saved Sam's life, the portal began to close - and the furious Leonians killed Leandro for his failure.
Played by: Ariyon Bakare. Appearances: The Woman Who Lived (2015).
- Bakare plays the villainous Lord Carlo Boreal in the His Dark Materials serials, and portrayed Ligur, the Duke of Hell, in the first season of Good Omens.
- One of the Leandro make-ups was on display at the Doctor Who Festival in November 2015:
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