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Date of Birth

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Height

5' 7" (1.70 m)

Mini Biography

Leah Diane Gibson grew up in Victoria, in British Columbia, Canada. She began dancing at the age of four, marking the beginning to her many years of training and performance in such dance forms as ballet, modern, contemporary/lyrical, jazz and broadway jazz. She discovered musical theatre through her early years of dancing and singing performance, and over the last ten years has performed in various theatrical productions and cabaret performances

Leah has worked on various TV series, TV movies, mini-series and feature films, including Warner Bros' Watchmen, Summit Entertainment's Twilight Saga: Eclipse, and 20th Century Fox' Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Leah's background in psychology from the University of Victoria lends itself to her introspective and soulful approach to her character work.

In between her filming, Leah continues to perform singing and dancing in live venues.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

Trivia

Has a twin sister named Erin.

Occasionally performs as a singer in cabaret nightclubs when not filming.

Was accepted to study psychology as an Honours student at the University of Victoria, but left school when she booked a role in a touring National theatre production instead.

Was a pole dance instructor when starting out as an actor.

Booked her first lead role in a feature film six months after signing with an agent.

Her twin sister is an artist.

After attending an open call audition, spent several days in front of a panel of judges and made the final cut of a select few to perform in Julie Taymour's Broadway production of "Spiderman: Turn off the Dark" in New York. Though she was not cast in the end, she describes it as being one of the most artistically fulfilling experiences of her career so far.