Leslie Hope

A familiar face to American television audiences since the 1990's, Hope was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and attended St. Michael's University in British Columbia. Though she had originally studied to become a lawyer, Hope was bitten by the acting bug during her graduate year of college when she won a small role in a movie called "Ups & Downs" (1981), a little-seen Canadian comedy about private school life.

Leaving her native Canada for …