 Leigh-Hunt played Jean Lawrence in the controversial BBC drama "Tumbledown" (1988), and Lady Catherine de Bourgh in "Pride and Prejudice" (1995), and provided the voices of the farmer's wife in "The Plague Dogs" (1982), and Captain Mildred and Mary the Hover Fairy in the 1987 Children's BBC series "Charlie Chalk".In 1999, Leigh starred as Lady Cumnor in BBC's four-part series adaptation of the novel "Wives and Daughters" (1999).More recently she has appeared in such films as "Paper Mask" (1990), "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" (1997), "Billy Elliot" (2000), "The Martins" (2001) and "Vanity Fair" (2004), and has had much work on television, mainly in guest character parts.