- Fluent in English (from childhood). Besides his native Portuguese, he also speaks French and Spanish.
- In spite of having started out in the theater at age 20, he was a latecomer to films, making his debut in 2001 (in "O Caso Morel", a Brazilian film that remains unreleased).
- All-time favorite actor is Gérard Philipe, who died in 1959, having made his best remembered movies before or shortly after Leo was born.
- Has a son, Daniel (b. 1977), who is a graphic designer.
- Studied acting with his cousin, the actor-director Cecil Thiré.
- All-time favorite director is François Truffaut.
- Calls his all-time favorite actresses "the four cardinal points:" Greta Garbo, Vanessa Redgrave, Liv Ullmann, and Maggie Smith.
- Favorite movie is a toss-up between Truffaut's Day for Night (1973) ("Day for Night") and Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander (1982) ("Fanny and Alexander").
- A huge fan of the Brazilian TV series City of Men (2002) ("City of Men"), its film version City of Men (2007), and its two stars, Darlan Cunha and Douglas Silva.
- Since 2006, has had his work in films and TV severely limited by the early onset of Benign Tremulous Parkinsonism, a subtype of Parkinson's Disease.
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