Leila was born in Luxembourg to an Algerian mother and a Luxembourg-Italian father. A painter since the age of 12, she moved to London after graduating from high school to pursue her artistic ambitions. Soon after, she fell in love with acting moved to New York to pursue a career in acting.A graduate of the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York, Leila has since acted in short films in both the USA and Europe, as well as feature film productions like Dead Man Talking (Patrick Ridremont), Hannah Arendt (Margarethe Von Trotta) or Journey to the End of an Identity (Filip Markiewicz) which premiered at the Venice Art Biennale in Italy in 2015.