Leslie Graves
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Leslie Marie Graves (Actress) was born on September 29, 1959 in Silver City, New Mexico.
Her father, Michael Graves [1], was a theatre actor and introduced her very early in entertainment industry, when she was approximately at age of 10. So she started her career with a small role in a Broadway play "A Cry of Players" (1968-1969) written by William Gibson, and then moved to acting for TV series: Sesame Street (1969, first 13 episodes), The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1972, just the episode titled "Baby Sit-Com"), Here We Go Again (1973), and some uncredited commercials.
In late '70s she left Hollywood, allegedly to move to Texas with a boyfriend , where she worked on a shrimp boat for three years [1].
Her come back to Hollywood in early '80 was marked by some nude photos (OUI Magazine, a Playboy corporation affiliate, tributed her the honour of the cover and photo shoot by Phillip Dixon in November 1980 and again in May 1981 a photo shoot by five photographers).
At that time some rumors about her involvement with Penthouse publisher, Bob Guccione, and an argument with Playboy publisher, Hugh Hefner, arose, as reported in specialised entertainment business magazines [2] and books [3].
As she started to be noticed, she had small roles in two slasher movies: Piranha: the Spawning (1981) and Death Wish II (1982).
This helped her to grow artistically, so she apparently found her way to success when CBS in 1982 casted her, at age of 23, for the role of Brenda Clegg in the daytime soap Capitol, for which she is still remembered with admiration.
On the set she found in Carolyn Jones a sort of second, supportive mother. When Carolyn died, Leslie was devastated, entering depression [4].
In late Summer, 1984, Leslie left the CBS sudser for serious drug problems due to heroin overdose, even if her replacement on the set was masked as overwork stress.
Her last public appearance was a nude photo shoot by Jean Rougeron published in the October 1984 issue of OUI Magazine.
On August 23, 1995 she died of an AIDS-related illness. Married, she had two children.
[edit] Notes and References
- ^ Koenigsberg, Alice (1984). Soaps' Young Sirens, Daytime TV Magazine
- ^ Koenisberg, Alice (1984). Soaps' Young Sirens, Daytime TV Magazine.
- ^ Bonderoff, Jason (1987). Soap opera babylon. Perigee Books. ISBN 0-399-51291-8.
- ^ Bonderoff, Jason (1987). Soap opera babylon. Perigee Books. ISBN 0-399-51291-8 .
