Jennifer Leak | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 28, 1947 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1964–1986 |
| Spouse | |
Jennifer Mary Leak (born September 28, 1947) is a Canadian film and television actress, best known for her role as Colleen North in the 1968 film Yours, Mine and Ours.[1]
Leak played the role of Olive Springer Gordon Randolph in the soap opera Another World (1976–1979), and Blanche Bouvier in Guiding Light (1981–82). In addition, Leak created the role of Gwen Sherman, who started out as a prostitute who fell in love with Greg Foster and ended up becoming a nun in the mid-1970s on the CBS soap The Young and the Restless.[2]
She also played guest spots on various TV shows, including McMillan and Wife and Hawaii Five-O. In 1973, she played Erica Jordan, Mary's temporary replacement at WJM-TV, in the season four episode "Better Late...That's a Pun...Than Never" in The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Leak was married to Tim Matheson from 1968 to 1971.[3]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Yours, Mine and Ours | Colleen North | |
| 1969 | Eye of the Cat | Poor Dear | |
| 1974 | The Photographer | Elowise Atkins | |
| 1981 | The Incubus | Deena Ferrin | |
| 1985 | Agent on Ice | Helen Pope |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Wojeck | Gale Fletcher | 2 episodes |
| 1969 | The Good Guys | Suzi | Episode: "Take a Computer to Lunch" |
| 1969 | Hawaii Five-O | Diana Cole | Episode: "King Kamehameha Blues" |
| 1970 | Lost Flight | Beejay Caldwell | Television film |
| 1972 | The Delphi Bureau | Judy Rogers | Episode: "The Top Secret Secret Project" |
| 1973 | A Time for Love | Patricia | Television film |
| 1973 | McMillan & Wife | Nell | Episode: "Death of a Monster... Birth of a Legend" |
| 1973 | The Rookies | Sister Anne | Episode: "Prayers Unanswered, Prayers Unheard" |
| 1974 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Erica Jordan | Episode: "Better Late... That's a Pun... Than Never" |
| 1974 | Ironside | Judith MacDane | Episode: "A Death in Academe" |
| 1975 | Ryan's Hope | Nurse Klupper | Episode #1.44 |
| 1976–1979 | Another World | Olive Randolph | 6 episodes |
| 1981 | Nero Wolfe | Elizabeth Marsh | Episode: "Murder by the Book" |
| 1981 | Guiding Light | Blanche Bouvier | Episode dated 31 July 1981 |
| 1986 | One Life to Live | Matron Spitz | Episode dated 26 September 1986 |
| 1992 | Loving | Dr. Hennessy | 2 episodes |