Leslie Grossman

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Leslie Erin Grossman (born 25 October 1971 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. Grossman is perhaps best known for her role as Mary Cherry on the television series Popular.

She was raised in Los Angeles, and attended Crossroads School, a high school for the performing arts, where she directed plays. She started acting in her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College.

Grossman also starred in What I Like About You, and appeared in Miss Congeniality 2, "Nip/Tuck", Charmed and CSI, amongst other things. In 2000 she married John Bronson. She will appear in two movies in 2006, Running with Scissors and Itty Bitty Titty Committee. Leslie auditioned for the roles of Sam McPherson and Nicole Julian on Popular before having the part of Mary Cherry written for her.

1 Filmography
2 Trivia
3 Quotes
4 External links

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Movies

Spring Breakdown (2007)
Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007)
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005)
Girl Band (2000)
Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
The Opposite of Sex (1998)

[edit] TV Shows

What I Like About You (2003-2006)
"Popular (1999)

The Jake Effect

[edit] Guest Star

Any Day Now

Help Me Help You

The Sharon Osbourne Show

[edit] Trivia

She wanted to be a social worker or a psychologist, before discovering acting while living in New York.^{[citation needed]}
Has said her favorite TV shows are All My Children, Friends and The View.^{[citation needed]}
As a child, she attended a Weight Watchers camp. She also never exercises.^{[citation needed]}
Is Jewish.^{[citation needed]}
Her mother is an architect and her father is an attorney.^{[citation needed]}
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.^{[citation needed]}
She owns a pet Chihuahua called Oscar.^{[citation needed]}
Is 5'5 feet tall.^{[citation needed]}
Was raised in Los Angeles.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Quotes

( 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."

(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."

(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."

(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."

(on Popularity)" 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."