Leon Ockenden (born 16 August 1978) is an English actor, director and writer who works in TV, film, theatre and radio.

He then received a scholarship from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where he took a three-year acting course and graduated in 2003.

[2][1] Ockenden appeared in the British/Australian drama television series Tripping Over, playing a carpenter named Callum.

He lent his voice and likeness to the 2010 video game Heavy Rain, in which he played Federal Bureau of Investigation profiler Norman Jayden.

Before the show was cancelled in 2015, he was a regular of the British drama television series Waterloo Road, in which he played the role of Hector Reid, a jocular and sometimes vitriolic teacher of PE.