Leslie Grossman
Leslie Grossman Trivia
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She and her husband adopted a baby girl in late 2006.
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She will be reunited with her Popular co-stars Tammy Lynn Michaels and Carly Pope will star in the 2007 comedy Itty Bitty Titty Committee.
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Her scenes in Ryan Murphy's 2006 movie Running with Scissors were cut for timing reasons. The scene she was in also featured another Nip/Tuck alumni, Vanessa Redgrave.
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Despite their 15-year age difference, she is good friends with her What I Like About You co-star Amanda Bynes.
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She wanted to be a social worker or a psychologist, before discovering acting while living in New York.
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Her first major acting job was in the theatre production Cereal!. The show was so successful that it ran for a whole year off-Broadway.
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Many of the Popular cast and crew attended her wedding in 2000, including close friends Ryan Murphy, Tamara Mello, Tammy Lynn Michaels and Bryce Johnson.
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As a child, she attended a WeightWatchers camp. She also never exercises.
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Her mother is an architect and her father is an attorney.
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She can be seen in a supporting role in the 2007 comedy movie Spring Breakdown, alongside Amy Poehler, Parker Posey and Will Arnett.
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She owns a pet Chihuahua called Oscar.
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She is Jewish.
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Her Popular character, Mary Cherry, developed an immediate cult following amongst audiences and there are several websites dedicated to her.
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After the cancellation of Popular, Ryan Murphy developed a spin-off series entitled Meet the Cherry's, centered on Leslie's character Mary Cherry and her mother Cherry Cherry. The show never made it past paper.
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In 2003, she co-starred in the NBC comedy series The Jake Effect, alongside Jason Bateman, Nikki Cox and Kyle Gass. Seven episodes were made but the show was left unaired, after plans to air it mid-season were changed at the last minute. Eventually, in 2006, Bravo aired the show as part of its "Brilliant But Cancelled" block.
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Auditioned for the roles of both Sam McPherson and Nicole Julian on the show Popular.
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Ryan Murphy, creator of Popular, created the character Mary Cherry personally for her.
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She is good friends with writer/director Ryan Murphy, who cast her in the TV shows Popular and Nip/Tuck and the film Running with Scissors.
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Leslie will appear in two movies in 2006, "Running with Scissors" and "Itty Bitty Titty Committee".
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Leslie started acting in her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College.
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Leslie attended Crossroads School, a high school for the performing arts, where she directed plays.
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Leslie was raised in Los Angeles.
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In 2000 she married John Bronson.
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Leslie is in the movie "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous".
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Her height is 5'5 (1.65m)
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Leslie: (On fame) It really hasn't affected my life that much. On the ladder of celebrity, I'm on the lowest rung. I get approached. People definitely speak to me. It's always nice. No one has ever been rude, although people do think it's appropriate to say things like, "You look so much fatter on TV."
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Leslie: (On ambition) Many actors and actresses think, 'Oh, I've got to be the biggest movie star or the biggest television star and I'm going to scratch and claw and do whatever I can to get to the top,' – that's not me at all. I can't even imagine being in that mindset.
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Leslie: (On auditioning) There are many times at an audition where I'll be waiting to go in and I can't believe the behavior of the other actresses in that room. They'll do anything to freak-out the other actresses - intimidate, make rude comments - and you just have to know that they're coming from such a sad place that you can't pay any attention to it.
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Leslie: (On acting) This is something that has truly fallen into my lap. I can't put restrictions on it and say, 'I have to keep acting for the next fifty years,' as acting doesn't work like that. It could all go away and you could not work for years and years.
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Leslie: (on Popular) I was lucky to be involved in that. I mean, I wish I could take you with me through pilot season and see just how hard it is to get a show on the air. It's crazy. There's so much stuff that's really good that will never make it - and we'll never know about it. So the fact that that freaky show with my character was on American television for two years - that's pretty cool.
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