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- 102/11/1926Leslie Nielsen, a Canadian-born actor and comedian, carved out an illustrious career in the entertainment industry that spanned over six decades. Born on February 11, 1926, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Nielsen embarked on his acting journey with dramatic roles in film and television during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He is remembered for his notable performances in movies like Forbidden Planet and The Poseidon Adventure. However, it was his shift from drama to comedy in the late 1970s that truly cemented his reputation as one of the most beloved performers of his generation. Nielsen's transition to comedy began with the satirical disaster movie spoof, Airplane! in 1980. His portrayal of the deadpan and often confused doctor, Dr. Rumack, brought an unexpected comedic twist to his established serious persona. This performance marked a turning point, opening avenues for Nielsen to redefine his image and explore the realm of comedy. He capitalized on his newfound comic identity with the Naked Gun franchise, where he played the bumbling and clueless Detective Frank Drebin. The series further entrenched him as a comedy icon in Hollywood. Despite his comedic fame, Nielsen's contributions to the industry transcended genres. Over his career, he appeared in more than a hundred films and hundreds more television programs, embodying a range of characters that showed his versatility as an actor. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1988, a testament to his enduring legacy. Nielsen passed away on November 28, 2010, but he left behind a rich body of work that continues to entertain and inspire. Leslie Nielsen will forever be remembered not just as a gifted actor and comedian, but as a performer who could effortlessly switch between genres.More Leslie Nielsen
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- 208/06/1981Leslie Odom Jr. (born August 6, 1981) is an American actor and singer. He has performed on Broadway and in television and film, and has released three solo jazz albums. He is known for originating the role of Aaron Burr in the Broadway musical Hamilton, a performance for which he won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album as a principal vocalist. His television roles included Sam Strickland in the musical series Smash (2012–2013). He is also the author of the 2018 book Failing Up.More Leslie Odom Jr.
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Leslie J. Chow
- 409/13/1944Leslie Cameron Harvey (13 September 1944 – 3 May 1972) was a guitarist in several Scottish bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s, most notably Stone the Crows. He was the brother of Alex Harvey.
- 505/06/1965Leslie Ann Hope (born May 6, 1965) is a Canadian actress and director, best known for her role as Teri Bauer on the Fox television series 24.
- 610/06/1949Leslie Roy Moonves (; born October 6, 1949) is an American media executive who served as the Chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation from 2003 until his resignation in September 2018 following numerous allegations of sexual harassment and abuse. He has been married to TV personality Julie Chen since 2004. He had held a series of executive positions at CBS from July 1995 to September 2018. He has been on the board of directors at ZeniMax Media since 1999. Later, he was co-president and co-chief operating officer (COO) of the original Viacom, Inc., the legal predecessor to CBS Corporation, from 2004 until the company split in December 2005. He became Chairman of CBS in February 2016. In September 2018, Moonves stepped down as Chairman of CBS after multiple women brought forth sexual misconduct allegations against him. Moonves allegedly destroyed evidence of his sexual misconduct.According to various media reports, Moonves has amassed a net worth of over US$800 million as a result of extremely generous compensation packages from CBS, with Moonves earning US$68.4 million in 2017, combined with stock options of the media company, worth over US$100 million. It was reported that Moonves was entitled to a severance package of over US$240 million from CBS; however, this has been suspended pending the outcome of several sexual abuse allegations against him.More Leslie Moonves
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- 712/16/1941Lesley Rene Stahl (born December 16, 1941) is an American television journalist. She has spent most of her career with CBS News, having been affiliated with that network since 1972; since 1991, she has reported for CBS's 60 Minutes.
- 803/26/1972Born in San Francisco, California, Leslie Mann embarked on a career that would transform her into an exceptional and influential figure in the realm of Hollywood. She began her journey as an actress specializing in comedy after graduating from Joanne Baron / D.W. Brown Acting Studio and the comedy improv troupe, The Groundlings. Her career took off under the guidance of her husband, director Judd Apatow, whom she met during an audition for The Cable Guy in 1996. Their collaboration throughout the years has led to a series of successful box-office hits, which have defined Mann's unique brand of comedy. Mann's breakthrough role came in 2007 when she starred in the critically acclaimed film Knocked Up. Her portrayal of Debbie, a character struggling with the challenges of motherhood and marriage, was met with high praise. This role established her as a leading lady in comedy and paved the way for several other successful films including This Is 40, Funny People, and The Other Woman where she displayed her range as an actress by playing multifaceted characters with depth and humor. Aside from her fruitful acting career, Mann's influence extends beyond the silver screen. Her commitment to philanthropy is equally noteworthy. An active supporter of numerous charitable organizations, she has devoted considerable time and resources to causes such as Stand Up To Cancer and 826LA, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students with their writing skills. The combination of Mann's talent, compassion, and dedication has allowed her to leave an indelible mark on Hollywood and beyond.More Leslie Mann
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- 905/25/1943Leslie Marian Uggams (born May 25, 1943) is an American actress and singer. Beginning her career as a child in the early 1950s, Uggams is recognized for portraying Kizzy Reynolds in the television miniseries Roots (1977), earning Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations for her performance. She had earlier been highly acclaimed for the Broadway musical Hallelujah, Baby!, winning a Theatre World Award in 1967 and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1968. Later in her career, Uggams received renewed notice with appearances alongside Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool (2016) and in a recurring role on Empire.
- Leslie Nipkow is an American essayist, television writer, playwright, and actress.
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Leslie Jordan
04/29/1955Leslie Allen Jordan (April 29, 1955 – October 24, 2022) was an American actor, comedian, writer, and singer.[2] His television roles included Lonnie Garr on Hearts Afire (1993–1995), Beverley Leslie on Will & Grace (2001–2006, 2017–2020), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 2006, several characters in the American Horror Story franchise (2013–2019), Sid on The Cool Kids (2018–2019), and Phil on Call Me Kat (2021–2022). In theater, he played Earl "Brother Boy" Ingram from Sordid Lives, and also portrayed the character in the popular cult film of the same name. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Jordan became an Instagram sensation, amassing 5.8 million followers. In April 2021, he published his autobiography, How Y'all Doing? Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived.More Leslie Jordan - 1202/07/1941Leslie B. Lamport (born February 7, 1941) is an American computer scientist. Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed systems, and as the initial developer of the document preparation system LaTeX and the author of its first manual. Leslie Lamport was the winner of the 2013 Turing Award for imposing clear, well-defined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed computing systems, in which several autonomous computers communicate with each other by passing messages. He devised important algorithms and developed formal modeling and verification protocols that improve the quality of real distributed systems. These contributions have resulted in improved correctness, performance, and reliability of computer systems.
- 1307/13/1922Leslie Brooks (born Virginia Leslie Gettman, July 13, 1922 – July 1, 2011) was an American film actress, model and dancer. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, her parents brought her to Southern California at an early age, where around 1940 she started work as a photographic model. At the beginning of her showbiz career she appeared as Lorraine Gettman.As Leslie Brooks, she began appearing in movie bit roles for Columbia in 1941. Brooks started landing more sizable parts in such movies as Nine Girls (1944), Cover Girl (1944), and the lead in the film noir classic Blonde Ice (1948). She retired from films in 1949, but returned to make one last film in 1971.
- 1409/12/1956Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing (born Cheung Fat-chung; 12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003) was a Hong Kong-Canadian singer and actor. He is considered "one of the founding fathers of Cantopop" for achieving huge success both in film and music. Cheung debuted in 1977, and rose to prominence as a teen heartthrob and pop icon of Hong Kong in the 1980s, receiving numerous music awards including Most Popular Male Artist Awards at the 1988 and 1989 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards. In 1989, Cheung announced his retirement from the music industry as a pop singer. Returning to the music scene after a five-year hiatus, Cheung released his chart-topping comeback album Most Beloved (寵愛) which achieved a huge market success. In 1999, he won the Golden Needle Award for his outstanding achievement as a musician at the RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards, and his 1984 hit song Monica was voted as Hong Kong's "Song of the Century". He was honoured as "Asia's Biggest Superstar" at the 2000 CCTV-MTV Music Honours.Cheung won the 1991 Hong Kong Film Award (Days of Being Wild) and the 1994 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award (Ashes of Time) for best actor. He had also won the 1994 Japan Film Critics Society Award for best actor for his performance in Farewell My Concubine and ten other best actor nominations, five Golden Horse Awards, three Cannes Film Festival Awards, an Asia Pacific Film Festival Award, and a Venice Film Festival Award.Cheung's music and films not only captured fans in Hong Kong but also other Asian areas including Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Mainland China, Japan and South Korea. He is the first foreign artist to hold 16 concerts in Japan, a record that has yet to be broken and also a record holder as the best-selling C-pop artist in Korea.Cheung was ranked in the 100 years of Chinese cinema. In 2010, he was voted the third "Most Iconic Musicians of All Time" (after Michael Jackson and The Beatles) by CNN with more than 100,000 people casting their votes. CNN considered Cheung as the "Most Beautiful Man from Hong Kong Cinema" and one of "Asia's 25 Greatest Actors of All Time".Cheung was diagnosed with depression and committed suicide on April 1, 2003, by jumping off the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Hong Kong.
- 1511/17/1974Leslie Bibb, born in North Dakota and raised in Virginia, is an acclaimed American actress and model. Her career hit the spotlight when she won a nationwide modeling search conducted by The Oprah Winfrey Show and the Elite Agency at the tender age of 16. This achievement led her to sign a contract with the New York-based Elite Model Management, propelling her into a successful modeling career gracing the covers of famous fashion magazines. However, her aspirations were not confined to modeling alone. She began exploring her acting potential, taking up roles in a variety of well-received television shows. Bibb transitioned seamlessly from modeling to acting, making her first notable appearance on the small screen in the late 1990s. She gained prominence for her role as Brooke McQueen on the WB Network dramedy series Popular, which aired from 1999 to 2001. The show earned her a Teen Choice Award nomination and paved the way for her to take on more challenging roles in both television and film. She made appearances in recurring roles on shows such as ER and Line of Fire. Moving on to the big screen, Bibb proved her versatility by starring in a wide array of films spanning comedy, horror, and drama genres. Notably, her performance in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby garnered significant attention. She further cemented her position in Hollywood with roles in blockbuster movies like Iron Man and Iron Man 2. Beyond acting, Bibb has also shown her prowess behind the camera, co-producing the film Miss Nobody, in which she played the lead role.More Leslie Bibb
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- 1601/01/1944Leslie Alexander may refer to: Leslie Alexander (businessman) (born 1944), former stock trader, owner of the Houston Rockets Leslie Alexander (rabbi), American rabbi Leslie Alexander (actress) (born 1957), American actress Leslie M. Alexander, American diplomat
- 1709/01/1949Leslie Feinberg (September 1, 1949 – November 15, 2014) was an American butch lesbian, transgender activist, communist, and author. Feinberg authored Stone Butch Blues in 1993. Her writing, notably Stone Butch Blues and her pioneering non-fiction book, 1996's Transgender Warriors, laid the groundwork for much of the terminology and awareness around gender studies and was instrumental in bringing these issues to a more mainstream audience.
- 1809/07/1967Annette "Leslie" Jones (born September 7, 1967) is an American comedian and actress who was a cast member and writer on Saturday Night Live from 2014 to 2019 and currently the host of Supermarket Sweep. Jones has been a featured performer at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal and the Aspen Comedy Festival. In 2010, her one-hour comedy special, Problem Child, was broadcast on Showtime. Jones starred in Ghostbusters (2016) as Patty Tolan. In 2017 and 2018, Jones was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Saturday Night Live.More Leslie Jones
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- 1904/29/1948Leslie John Howard (born 29 April 1948) is an Australian pianist, musicologist and composer. He is best known for being the only pianist to have recorded the complete solo piano works of Franz Liszt, a project which included more than 300 premiere recordings. He has been described by The Guardian as "a master of a tradition of pianism in serious danger of dying out".
- 2010/25/1971Leslie Erin Grossman (born October 25, 1971) is an American actress. She is known for her collaborations with Ryan Murphy, appearing as Mary Cherry on The WB comedy-drama series Popular (1999–2001), and Meadow Wilton, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt on the seventh and eighth and the upcoming ninth season of the FX anthology series American Horror Story (2017–Present).
- 2104/03/1893Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943) was an English stage and film actor, director, and producer. He also wrote many stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair and was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s. Howard is probably best remembered for playing Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939). He had roles in many other notable films, including Berkeley Square (1933), Of Human Bondage (1934), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), The Petrified Forest (1936), Pygmalion (1938), Intermezzo (1939), "Pimpernel" Smith (1941), and The First of the Few (1942). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Berkeley Square and Pygmalion. Howard's Second World War activities included acting and filmmaking. He was active in anti-German propaganda and rumoured to have been involved with British or Allied Intelligence, sparking conspiracy theories regarding his death in 1943 when the Luftwaffe shot down BOAC Flight 777 over the Bay of Biscay (in Cedeira, A Coruña), on which he was a passenger.More Leslie Howard
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- 2207/01/1931Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (French: [lɛsli kaʁɔ̃]; born 1 July 1931) is a French-American actress and dancer who appeared in 45 films between 1951 and 2003. Her autobiography, Thank Heaven, was published in 2010 in the UK and US, and in 2011 in a French version. Veteran documentarian Larry Weinstein's Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 28 June 2016.Caron is best known for the musical films An American in Paris (1951), Lili (1953), Daddy Long Legs (1955), and Gigi (1958), and for the nonmusical films Fanny (1961), The L-Shaped Room (1962), and Father Goose (1964). She received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. In 2006, her performance in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit won her an Emmy for guest actress in a drama series. She is fluent in French, English, and Italian. She is one of the few dancers or actresses who have danced with Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Rudolf Nureyev.More Leslie Caron
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- 2301/11/1941Leslie Dilley (born 11 January 1941) is a Welsh production designer and art director. He has won two Academy Awards and has been nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.
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Leslie Abramson
10/06/1943Leslie Hope Abramson (born October 6, 1943) is an American criminal defense attorney best known for her role in the legal defense of Lyle and Erik Menendez. - 2506/06/1986Leslie Barbara Ashton (née Carter) (June 6, 1986 – January 31, 2012) was an American pop singer best known as the sister of Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter and singer Aaron Carter.
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Leslie O'Neal
05/07/1964Leslie Claudis O'Neal (born May 7, 1964) is an American former football player who was a defensive end for 13 years in the National Football League (NFL). He spent the majority of his career with the San Diego Chargers before finishing with the St. Louis Rams and Kansas City Chiefs. He was a three-time All-Pro and six-time Pro Bowl selection during his pro career. O'Neal was a two-time All-American playing college football with the Oklahoma State Cowboys. He joined the Chargers after they selected him in the first round with the eight overall pick in the 1986 NFL draft. He was named NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year, but suffered a major knee injury at the end of his first season. He returned within two years, and finished his career as the Chargers all-time leader in sacks. As of December 7, 2018, he ranked tied for 13th all-time in NFL history in sacks. - Leslie Garza is an actor and casting director.
- 2804/23/1904Leslie Richard French (23 April 1904 – 21 January 1999) was a British actor of stage and screen. French was primarily a theatre actor, as well as a director, singer and dancer, with a varied career that included the classics, musical revue, pantomime and ballet. He became most associated with the role of Ariel in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and over the years he essayed many of Shakespeare's spirits and clowns, such as Puck, Feste and Touchstone.
- 2907/25/1944Leslie Scalapino (July 25, 1944 – May 28, 2010) was a United States poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets. A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley. One of Scalapino's most critically well-received works is way (North Point Press, 1988), a long poem which won the Poetry Center Award, the Lawrence Lipton Prize, and the American Book Award.
- 3010/22/1945Leslie West (born Leslie Weinstein; October 22, 1945 – December 23, 2020) was an American rock guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He was best known as a founding member of the hard rock band Mountain.More Leslie West
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