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Leith Towers is an actor and musician from Auckland, New Zealand. He is best known for playing Derek in Krampus (2015) and James Smith in When We Go To War (2015).

Prior to his acting career, in 2013, he and Nick Armstrong (as a duo called The Steamrollers) participated in the first series of the New Zealand version of the The X Factor. After having successfully made it through the first round by impressing the judges with a cover of Simon and Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence, The Steamrollers were dramatically kicked off during the boot camp episode during a rendition of Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror after judge Melanie Blatt interrupted them midway through the song, saying "It's all very well having a laugh and being funny and stuff, but ... it would be nice if you could still sing" and accused them of "taking the mickey out of the whole process;" Stan Walker then told them to "walk off now" and labelled their indifferent attitude as "shocking". After being kicked off the show, he found work at a Denny's restaurant. .