Attractive English performer who has enjoyed modest success on American TV. Leeves moved to New York at age 21 with $1,000 dollars. After spending a few years as a starving artist she returned to her native England where she worked on "The Benny Hill Show". Leeves returned to America, landing a role in "To Live and Die in L.A." (1985). The next year she was cast in the syndicated ensemble comedy "Throb". Leeves is probably best known for her recurring roles on "Murphy Brown", as the flighty girlfriend of Miles Silverberg (Grant Shaud) and "Seinfeld", as Marla the Virgin, who passes up Jerry for John F. Kennedy, Jr. in a celebrated episode entitled "The Contest". Leeves next became a regular on the "Cheers" spin-off, "Frasier", as Daphne Moon, the "half-psychic" live-in caretaker of Martin Crane (John Mahoney) and long-standing love interest of the ever-neurotic Niles Crane (David Hyde Pierce), a role she would play throughout the series' entire ten-year run.In 1996, Leeves reached a new audience by providing the voice of the motherly Ladybug in the animated feature "James and the Giant Peach". In the TV thriller "Pandora's Clock" (1996) she was one of the passengers aboard a plane carrying a terrorist's Doomsday Virus, and Leeves had supporting roles in the feature films "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" and "Music of the Heart" (both 1999), and "The Event" (2003).
Profession(s):
Actor, dancer, model
Sometimes Credited As:
Family
daughter:Isabella Kathryn Coben (born on January 9, 2001)
father:Colin Leeves
husband:Marshall Coben (worked at Paramount TV; born c. 1956; married in December 1996)
mother:Ruth Leeves
son:Finn William Coben (born December 19, 2003; father is television exec Marshall Coben)
Companion(s)
Grant Shaud
, Companion
, ```..no longer together
The Actor Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series "Frasier" 1999
2002 Made Broadway debut as Sally Bowles in "Cabaret" (summer)
1998 With "Frasier" co-star Peri Gilpin, formed production company Bristol Cities
1993 Co-starred in the "Cheers" spin-off, "Frasier"
1992 Appeared as Marla the virgin on "Seinfeld"
1989 - 1993 Appeared in a recurring role in the series "Murphy Brown"
1986 Co-starred in the syndicated series, "Throb"
1985 Feature acting debut, "To Live and Die in L.A."
1984 Moved to New York from England at age 21 (date approximate)
Returned to England
English TV acting debut, "The Benny Hill Show"
Moved to Los Angeles
