Leslie Easterbrook
Leslie Easterbrook (born July 29, 1949 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American actress .
Life
She was adopted and raised by a family in rural Nebraska . Her father was a professor of singing and trumpet at the University of Nebraska at Kearney . He prepared her for opera roles and taught her to play the trumpet for the hit television series Laverne & Shirley .
With roughly a dozen films and over 300 episodes on American television, Easterbrook is a familiar face to American audiences. In Laverne & Shirley , she became known in the role of the Marilyn Monroe -like neighbor. The role she became best known for is that of busty blonde Debbie Callahan in the popular Police Academy series . She embodied this in six of the seven films.
Among the TV shows Leslie starred in were Murder Is Her Hobby , Real Great, Mr. Cooper , Baywatch , Matlock , Hunter, and A Duke Seldom Comes Alone . She played the role of Devlin Kowalski in the soap opera Ryan's Hope . In 2007 she appeared in a supporting role in the horror film Halloween . Two years earlier, she had worked with director Rob Zombie as an actress on The Devil's Rejects .
Because of her vocal talents, Leslie Easterbrook was selected to sing the national anthem at Super Bowl XVII and to star in numerous musicals on Broadway and around the country.
Filmography (selection)
cinemamovies
- 1980: Tell Me What You Want (Just Tell Me What You Want) - Director: Sidney Lumet
- 1984 Police Academy - Dumber Than The Police Allow (Police Academy) - Director: Hugh Wilson
- 1985: Die Superaufreißer (Private Ressort) - Director: George Bowers
- 1986: Police Academy 3 -… and nobody can stop you (Police Academy 3: Back in Training) - Director: Jerry Paris
- 1987: Police Academy 4 - And now it's going on (Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol) - Directed by Jim Drake
- 1988: Police Academy 5 : Assignment: Miami Beach (Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach) - Director: Alan Myerson
- 1989: Police Academy 6 - Resistance futile (Police Academy 6: City Under Siege) - Director: Peter Bonerz
- 1994: Police Academy 7 - Mission in Moscow (Police Academy: Mission to Moscow) - Director: Alan Metter
- 1995 Mr. Payback: An Interactive Movie - Directed by Bob Gale
- 1997: The Hunted - hunted to the death (The Hunted) - Director: Max Kleven
- 1999: Welcome to Kahuna - Director: Alan Metter
- 2000: Fart the Movie (Artie) - Director: Matt Berman
- 2001: Maniacts - Director: CW Cressler
- 2005: The Devil's Rejects (The Devil's Rejects) - Director: Rob Zombie
- 2007: Halloween (Rob Zombie's Halloween) - Director: Rob Zombie
- 2007: After 7 Days - The Heartbreak Kid - Directed by Peter and Bobby Farrelly
- 2007 House - directed by Robby Henson
- 2010: Another American Crime (The Afflicted) - Director: Jason Stoddard
- 2015: All in or Nothing (River 9) - directed by Chris W. Freeman and Justin Jones
- 2016: Greater - Director: David Hunt
- 2016: Terror Birds - Director: Sean Cain
- 2017: The Neighborhood - Director: Frank D'Angelo
watch TV
- 1980–1983: Laverne & Shirley (series, 51 episodes)
- 1988: 847 - Flug des Schreckens (The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story) - Director: Paul Wendkos
- 1988–1995: Murder is her hobby ( Murder, She Wrote , series, 4 episodes)
Web links
- Leslie Easterbrook in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Leslie Easterbrook in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Leslie Easterbrook at filmreference.com
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Easterbrook, Leslie |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1949 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California , United States |