- Born
- Birth nameLeslie Jean Mann
- Height5′ 6½″ (1.69 m)
- Leslie Jean Mann was born in San Francisco, California. She was raised in Newport Beach, California by her mother, Janet Ann Ayres. At the age of seventeen, she launched her career, appearing in various TV commercials.
Her screen break came when she was cast as Nurse Mary in the short-lived Birdland (1994). Further TV and film roles followed, including The Cable Guy (1996), where she met her husband, Judd Apatow, who was a producer on the film. The story goes that after Mann left her audition for the role, Apatow turned to his colleagues and said "there goes the future Mrs. Apatow".
Further successes followed for Mann in such projects as George of the Jungle (1997) and The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005). She also appeared alongside her daughters - Maude Apatow and Iris Apatow - in Knocked Up (2007), Funny People (2009) and This Is 40 (2012).- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseJudd Apatow(June 9, 1997 - present) (2 children)
- Children
- ParentsJanet Ann Ayres
- RelativesThomas Hamilton(Grandparent)Sadie Heljä Viola Räsänen(Grandparent)
- High-pitched voice
- Strawberry blonde hair
- Met her husband on the set of The Cable Guy (1996), a movie he produced.
- Prefers her name to be pronounced "Less-lee", not "Lez-lee", despite having allowed her husband Judd Apatow to say "Lez-lee" for over 18 years.
- The Cable Guy (1996) co-star Jim Carrey described her looks as bearing resemblance to Marlene Dietrich. Others see a likeness to Sheri Moon Zombie.
- Leslie's father is of Irish and German ancestry. Leslie's maternal grandfather, Thomas Hamilton, was a Scottish immigrant, while Leslie's maternal grandmother, Sadie Heljä Viola Räsänen, was born in Michigan, to Finnish parents.
- When I see people who are supposed to have been married twenty years, who hold hands and kiss, and every kiss is hot, and they're having magical sex every day, I'm like, "Screw you! Don't make me feel bad about myself!" Maybe I'm wrong, maybe people do have that. But I don't believe it.
- I don't take anything at face value. I always look for the reasons people are the way they are.
- I'm so sick of seeing these movies where married couples are just cuddling on the couch and caressing each other's faces.
- I've always surrounded myself with funny people.
- When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.
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