Leslie Easterbrook
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Leslie Easterbrook (born July 29, 1949) is an American actress.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
She was born in Los Angeles and adopted by a family in rural Nebraska and raised there. Her father later earned a PhD and became a voice/trumpet professor at Kearney University. He prepared her for operatic roles and coached her in trumpet playing for Laverne & Shirley.
[edit] Career
Easterbrook has become a familiar face to American audiences, with about a dozen feature films and over 300 television episodes to her credit. She first became famous as Rhonda Lee, the Marilyn-Monroe-like neighbor of Laverne & Shirley. But the role for which she is most widely known is that of Lt. (later Capt.) Debbie Callahan, the no-nonsense blonde bombshell in the popular Police Academy movie series. Among the TV shows in which Leslie has appeared are Murder, She Wrote, Hangin' With Mr. Cooper, Baywatch, Matlock, Hunter, and The Dukes of Hazzard. Soap opera fans will remember her as Devlin Kowalski from Ryan's Hope. More recently, she's been doing voice work, lending her vocal talents to Superman and Batman: The Animated Series.
Easterbrook's vocal talents led to her being chosen to sing the National Anthem at Super Bowl XVII and have landed her starring roles in numerous musicals on Broadway and throughout the country; she also recorded a song for the soundtrack of Police Academy: Mission to Moscow.
She was also a frequent panelist on The Match Game in the 1980s.
An accomplished sports shooter, Leslie has put together a video, Real Beginner's Guide to the Shotgun Sports, the first in a series designed to encourage and prepare non-shooters for their first shooting experience. Leslie serves on the board of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, and supports a number of children's charities including Girls, Inc., The Sunshine Kids and Variety Children's Charities. She is also an NRA member.[citation needed]
In 2005, she played Mother Firefly in Rob Zombie's horror movie The Devil's Rejects
In 2007, she played security guard Patty Frost in Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween.
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