Leila de Lara occupies a space in Hampshire in the UK. A precocious child, she usually answered future aspiration questions with the innocuous phrase, "I want to help people", and spent most of her teens puzzling over how to to do this. She now understands that you can help in many ways and it doesn't necessarily have to involve taking up a serious and worthwhile profession....She did anyway, being funny like that, and currently enjoys her studies at University. In her spare time she loves getting involved in things that will probably keep her irritable and exhausted fifty-one weeks of the year.

Leila grew up watching films from the 1940's - 1960's, and can pretty much name any Noir actor from this era. However, she is particularly fond of the horror genre with a focus on ghost stories. She likes nothing better than grinding B-Z list slashers- a choice which has almost cost her friendships, especially when announcing that Urban Legends II was the most enjoyable film she had ever seen.

She is inherently, a bit of a geek, and although she spent a while suppressing it playing at grown-up, she has finally admitted defeat and reads more comics than ever, and has started to write screenplays and her first novel. Leila is especially proud of successes in the entrepreneurial arena, and recent attempts at film-making. This year she intends to advance achievements by working on a publication company advisory panel, and learning to raise one eyebrow.

Fave things: Pyjamas, movies, pop surrealism, the seaside, illustrating, metal music, tea & biscuits, comics/books (horror/vertigo/dc/dark-horse), wit, wing-back chairs, making lists, giving songs aberrant lyrics, unexplored corners, cats, eccentric dancing, Hitchcock, bedtime stories, pulling awkward faces, admiring beards/sideburns, Norman Wisdom, looking after fatalistic animals, oddities, Talisman, Halloween decorations, bizarre hats, and talking about herself in the third person.

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