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leerhsen
leerhsen
Leerhsen grew up in Ossinig, NY and graduated summa
cum laude from Boston University. Although she's now LA-based, she still
refers to New Yorkers as "her people."
Dress : Nicole Miller.
Dress : Nicole Miller.
Despite her love for theater,
Leerhsen's acting career
transitioned into big
screen success.
Dress: Gianfranco
Ferre.
Leerhsen's acting career
transitioned into big
screen success.
Dress: Gianfranco
Ferre.
legacy of women in Woody Allen movies, and I got to be a pretty girl! I
grew up obsessing over Woody Allen. My sister remembers me in my teens carrying
around his biography. It was surreal to be with Woody in front of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art."
As a theater major at Boston University, Leerhsen thought she'd win leading roles, not for Woody, but on stage. "I fell into movies by accident. I was very much an intellectual. I don't really even think I brushed my hair because I didn't care. I was very much all about theater."
She landed an agent right out of school,
did some off-Broadway theater, but
mostly went out on auditions. "I never
really saw myself as a film actress."
Appearing in theaters next, Leerhsen
returns to the spooky genre with a remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, one of the creepiest old school fright-fests of all time...
As a theater major at Boston University, Leerhsen thought she'd win leading roles, not for Woody, but on stage. "I fell into movies by accident. I was very much an intellectual. I don't really even think I brushed my hair because I didn't care. I was very much all about theater."
She landed an agent right out of school,
did some off-Broadway theater, but
mostly went out on auditions. "I never
really saw myself as a film actress."
Appearing in theaters next, Leerhsen
returns to the spooky genre with a remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, one of the creepiest old school fright-fests of all time...
