Everything about Lesley Ann Warren totally explained
Lesley Ann Warren (born
August 16,
1946), is a
Golden Globe Award-winning,
Oscar nominated
American stage, film and television actress and singer.
Warren was born in
New York City to a
Jewish family whose surname was originally "Woronoff". The 5-foot-8 inch actress began her career as a
ballet dancer, training at the
School of American Ballet.
She entered the Actors Studio at the age of seventeen - reputedly the youngest applicant ever to be accepted. Her
Broadway debut came in
1963 in the musical,
110 in the Shade. She won the
Theatre World Award for her performance in the 1965 flop musical
Drat! The Cat!. In 1973 she portrayed
Scarlett O'Hara in the
Los Angeles production of
Scarlett, which was reviewed so scathingly it didn't continue to Broadway as planned.
Having failed to obtain the role of Liesl in the film version of
The Sound of Music, her first major television success was in the title role of
Rodgers and Hammerstein's television special,
Cinderella, in
1965. She later replaced
Barbara Bain as the leading female in the team during the 1970-1971 television season, though according to
The Complete Mission: Impossible Dossier by Patrick White, she was considered too inexperienced for the part and left after only one year (she was billed as Lesley Warren on the series).
For her portrayal of a dim-witted gangster's moll in the 1982 musical-comedy
Victor/Victoria, Warren was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
She is a five-time Golden Globes nominee and won for the 1977 mini-series
Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue. She was Emmy-nominated for the TV movie
Family of Spies (1991).
In the comic film version of the popular board game
Clue (1985), Warren starred as one of the prime murder suspects, Miss Scarlet.
Her 1967 marriage to producer
Jon Peters ended in divorce. They had one son,
Christopher Peters (born 1968, now an actor).
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Television
She has also appeared extensively on
television, most notably in (1970-71). In 1970 she also had the lead role in an unbroadcast
pilot based upon the 1965 film
Cat Ballou. Most recently, she's had recurring roles on
Will & Grace, as
Will's dad's mistress, and on
Desperate Housewives, as
Susan's mother. She has also played the role of Kip Stedman's mother on the ABC show "Less Than Perfect". Her next role will be in the USA Network original series, In Plain Sight.
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