Leigh Hennessy

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Leigh Hennessy was raised in Lafayette, Louisiana. She holds the record, according to the Guinness World Records, for winning the most US national championships for women. She has more recently had a career as a stunt double in the U.S. film and television industries.

Her father, Jeff Hennessy, a retired associate professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then named the University of Southwestern Louisiana) was an expert in the sport of trampolining and was her first trampoline coach. At fourteen years old, Hennessy won her first world title at the first World Age-Group Championships held in London, England in the individual trampoline event for girls 13-14. She earned a master's degree in communication at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, graduating magna cum laude.

After working for Congressman Jimmy Hayes in Washington, D.C., Hennessy's career shifted to stunt work in Hollywood. She has worked as Demi Moore's stunt double in GI Jane and many other films, televisions shows and commercials.

Hennessy is working on The Guardian, a film with Kevin Costner, in which she plays the role of the drowning wife.