Leslie Easterbrook

Known for ActingBorn 1952-07-29 (age 73)Los Angeles, California, USA

Easterbrook was born in Los Angeles. She was adopted when she was nine months old; her adoptive parents, Carl and Helen Easterbrook, raised her in Arcadia, Nebraska. She attended and graduated from Kearney High School and Stephens College. Her father was a music professor and her mother was an English teacher at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Easterbrook appeared in about a dozen feature films and over 300 television episodes. One of her earlier successes was in 1980 as Rhonda Lee beginning with season six of Laverne & Shirley. The role of Rhonda was part of the show's change of locale from Milwaukee to Hollywood. Easterbrook performed as Debbie Callahan in the Police Academy film series. Easterbrook told author Paul Stenning, "The funny thing is, that's not me at all. I'd never played tough. I'd played all kinds of things, but I'd never played someone who's intimidating or someone that was aggressive sexually. I was of a size that I never played the girl who got the guy. I wondered how I could do it. But I did. I went for the audition and I scared the producer and the director and then they backed up in their chairs and I went 'Oh no, now I really blew it. I scared them'. So I left the audition upset. I didn't get to read the script until I got the part. I thought it was outrageous and so funny." Easterbrook appeared in Murder, She Wrote, Diagnosis: Murder, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Baywatch, Matlock, Hunter, and The Dukes of Hazzard. In 2005, she replaced Karen Black as Mother Firefly in Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects, the sequel to the 2003 horror film, House of 1000 Corpses. In 2007, she played security guard Patty Frost in Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween. In 2008, she played as Betty in the thriller/horror film House. In 2010, she starred in The Afflicted. She also appeared on Ryan's Hope as Devlin Kowalski. Her voice work has been featured in several projects, including Batman: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series. She sang the National Anthem at Super Bowl XVII which landed her starring roles in musicals on Broadway and throughout the country; she recorded a song for the soundtrack of Police Academy: Mission to Moscow. Easterbrook made a video, Real Beginner's Guide to the Shotgun Sports, the first in a series designed to encourage and prepare nonshooters for their first shooting experience. Easterbrook serves on the board of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, and supports a number of children's charities. Easterbrook is a National Rifle Association member and has served on the board of directors of the California Rifle and Pistol Association. Easterbrook is married to M*A*S*H writer Dan Wilcox. She was previously married to fellow actor Victor Holchak.Read more

Movies & web series

Me and Maxx

Batman: The Animated Series

Body of the Mined

Superman: The Animated Series

Murder, She Wrote

Greater

Diagnosis: Murder

Matlock

Laverne & Shirley

Hunter

Misfits of Science

The Biggest Fan

The Devil's Rejects

The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper

Brothers

Police Academy

Halloween

Find Me

Maniacts

The Love Boat

Voices

Baywatch

Ann Jillian

The Heartbreak Kid

Police Academy: The Series

Beast Mode

Mr. Payback: An Interactive Movie

Police Academy 3: Back in Training

Private Resort

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

A Christmas Arrangement

Rivers 9

Murder at the Presidio

The Wedding Pact 2: The Baby Pact

Charlotte

Monster X

Sugar Skull Girls

The Wedding Pact

Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach

Dismembered

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege

Lavalantula

Daddy

Terror Birds

Long Distance

Clubhouse

The Afflicted