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Name: Lesley Ann Warren
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Date of Birth:
August 16, 1946
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Place of Birth:
New York, New York, USA
Mini-bio:
Lesley Ann Warren is an Oscar nominatedAmerican stage, film and television actress.Warren was born in New York City to a Jewish family whose surname wasoriginally "Woronoff". The 5-foot-8 inch actress...( read more) began her career as aballet dancer, training at the School of American Ballet.She entered the Actors Studio at the age of seventeen - reputedly theyoungest applicant ever to be accepted. Her Broadway debut came in 1963 inthe musical, 110 in the Shade. She won the Theatre World Award for herperformance in the 1965 flop musical Drat! The Cat!. In 1973 she portrayedScarlett O'Hara in the Los Angeles production of Scarlett, which wasreviewed so scathingly it didn't continue to Broadway as planned.Having failed to obtain the role of Liesl in the film version of The Soundof Music, her first major television success was in the title role ofRodgers and Hammerstein's television special, Cinderella, in 1965. She laterreplaced Barbara Bain as the leading female in the Mission: Impossible teamduring the 1970-1971 television season, though according to The CompleteMission: Impossible Dossier by Patrick White, she was considered tooinexperienced for the part and left after only one year (she was billed asLesley Warren on the series).
In 1967, she married producer Jon Peters. They had one son, Christopher(born 1968, now an actor), but were subsequently divorced.Most recently, she has had recurring roles on Will & Grace - as Will'sfather's mistress - and on Desperate Housewives as Susan's mother.