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- "Get your baton ready!"
- ―Leo
Leonardo (Leo for short) is the main protagonist of the Little Einsteins franchise.
He is the team's leader and serves as a conductor. He is voiced by Jesse Schwartz in the original US dub (with singing voice provided by Harrison Chad) and Piers Stubbs (season 1)/Daniel Culleton (season 2) in the UK dub.
About
Leo is a 6-year-old boy, who is the Little Einsteins leader and (along with June) the oldest of the Little Einsteins members. He pilots Rocket. He is the older brother of Annie and his main talent is conducting. His most precious object is his Conductor Baton after his father used it. He uses the baton to conduct the music to the right beat as well as he can use conducting moves like Crescendo, Diminuendo, Ritardando and more. His full name is Leonardo and prefers to call himself Leo for short. He can be seen using this name on the old website.
Appearance
Leo is a 6 yr old boy with semi light tan skin, red spiky hair, and green eyes. For iconic attire, he wears a black short-sleeved shirt with an orange stripe in the middle, orange khaki shorts with pockets attached, and black and orange low top converse sneakers with white laces and white soles. He is the only member to wear glasses, which are peacock green. His hair originally had many spikes, but was later changed to six spikes due to buzzing from the television quality. Faint sights of the original style can be seen in reused animation during the first season and during the blast off.
Personality
Leo is a kind, caring and respectful boy, who's always there to help. He's brave and confident in helping his sister and his friends. He leads the team in the right direction. Like all of the gang, Leo is scared of spiders and bats. (Our HUGE Adventure)
Friends
Leo's best friends are Annie (his little sister), Quincy, June, and Rocket.
Leo also has other friends, but they aren't human: Bumblebee, Tapper and his woodpecker friend, the music pet Melody, Bald Eagle, the Unicorn, Little Caterpillar (later Butterfly) foxes, ostriches, monkeys, rabbits, Hansel and Gretel (they look like humans, but they're German Folk Art), and Silly Sock.
Relationships with other Characters
Quincy is one of Leo's best friends; Leo likes to hang out with Quincy. He conducts Quincy while he plays his instruments and helps him to not be afraid of his fears.
June is one of Leo's best friends. Leo will do anything for her. If June is hurt, scared, or sad, Leo will be there to cheer her up. In turn, when Leo is feeling scared or sad, June will comfort him. They're both the same age.
Annie is Leo's younger sister. The two have an incredibly close and loving relationship, and very rarely, if ever, have any disagreements or quarrels. Leo normally trusts Annie to look after herself and get the hang of things quickly, though he has been shown in a few instances to be quite protective of her and will sometimes worry about her safety even in moments when he doesn't need to. However, his trust in her ultimately prevails in most cases, especially in Annie's Solo Mission -- after he teaches her how to do the Up and Down move, the Squeeze trick and the Loop de Loop Maneuver, he encourages her multiple times while she and Rocket are travelling out to rescue him (as well as June and Quincy), and in addition to eventually catching up to and saving them, she manages to pull each move off in flying colors. When Annie gets the hiccups, Leo scares her to make the hiccups go away (as mentioned in Hungarian Hiccups).
Rocket is Leo's (heavily implied to be oldest) friend. He has also been there since the start (as seen in How We Became the Little Einsteins: The True Story) as Leo watches Rocket on a space-themed baby mobile. Rocket takes Leo and the Little Einsteins anywhere they want.
Background
TBA
Quotes
- "Get your baton ready!"
- "We've got a mission!"
- "Let The Mission... begin!"
- "Mission completion!"
Objects
For Details, See: Leo's Objects
Attires
For details, See: Leo's Attires
Voice Actors
- Jesse Schwartz (US)
- Harrison Chad (US; singing voice)
- Piers Stubbs (UK; Our HUGE Adventure and first series)
- Daniel Culleton (UK; second series and Rocket’s Firebird Rescue)
- Manuel Diaz (Latin America)
- Luciano Monteiro (Brazil)
- Francois-Nicolas Dolan (French-speaking Canada)
- Tobias John von Freyend (Germany)
- Leon Czalaun (Germany; singing voice)
- Viktor Peeters (Netherlands; first series only)
- Christian Hakkert (Netherlands; second series)
- Lucile Boulanger (France)
- Manuel Meli (Italy)
- Amaparo Bravo (Spain)
- Adina Lucaciu (Romania)
- Akira Takaki (Finland; Nelonen dub)
- Eelis Ignatius (Finland; Disney+ dub)
- Konstantin Yefimov (Russia)
- Flavia Gusamo (Portugal)
- Shotaro Uzawa (Japan; episodes 1 to 54)
- Reita Shibai (Japan; episodes 55 to 68)
- Itay Jerufi (Israel; original dub)
- Itamar Ollier (Israel; new dub)
Trivia
- He is named after the famous conductor of Fantasia franchise Leopold Stokowski.
- His favorite color is orange.
- His skills with the baton include the ability to conduct animals (as seen in Our HUGE Adventure, and "The Song of the Unicorn").
- Although he's only 6 years old, he is tall. In fact, he's taller than Quincy and Annie (though she's the smallest). However, he and June are the same height.
- In A Galactic Goodnight, he states that he uses his baton as a nightlight every night, which helps him fall asleep.
- In The Christmas Wish, he wish was a new baton head, which is a glowing star.
- He's the only main character of the Little Einsteins to have a confirmed full name, that being "Leonardo".
- Leo and June are often seen as a couple by fans, due to them having several moments in the series where they share affection and/or stand up for each other. However, this isn't confirmed, most likely due to both characters being only 6.
- Leo is the only one of the show's main characters to not have his name featured in the title of an episode; not even on episodes that are focusing on him like Brothers and Sisters to the Rescue (with Annie), The Song of the Unicorn, I Love to Conduct, Melody the Music Pet, Silly Sock Saves the Circus and Melody and Me. By contrast, Rocket has his name appear in the titles of seven episodes (Rocket Safari, Rocket Soup, Little Red Rockethood, Build It, Rocket!, Fire Truck Rocket, Rocket the Bug and Rocket's Firebird Rescue), Annie in six (Farmer Annie, Annie's Solo Mission, Annie's Love Song, Annie and the Little Toy Plane, Annie and the Beanstalk and Annie, Get Your Microphone), Quincy in two (Quincy and the Magic Instruments and Quincy and the Instrument Dinosaurs) and June in one (Duck, Duck, June).
- In Latin Spanish, he is voiced by Manuel Díaz; who also voiced Diego Márquez from Dora the Explorer (Seasons 4-5) and Go, Diego, Go! (Seasons 1, 2, and 3), and Austin from The Backyardigans (Seasons 1, 2, and erroneously one episode in Season 3) in the Latin Spanish dubs.
In Other Languages
| Language | Name | Romanized |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | レオ | Reo |
| Korean | 레오 | Le-o |
| Russian | Лео | Leo |
| Polish | Leoś | Leo |
