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Jennifer Leak

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Jennifer Leak
Born
(1947-09-28) September 28, 1947 (age 77)

OccupationActress
Years active1964–1986
Spouse
(m. 1968; div. 1971)

Jennifer Mary Leak (born September 28, 1947 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian film and television actress, best known for her role as Colleen North in the 1968 film Yours, Mine and Ours.[1]

Leak played the role of Olive Springer Gordon Randolph in the soap opera Another World (1976–1979), and Blanche Bouvier in Guiding Light (1981–82). In addition, Jennifer created the role of Gwen Sherman, who started out as a prostitute who fell in love with Greg Foster and ended up becoming a nun in the mid-1970s on the CBS soap, The Young and the Restless.

She also played guest spots on various TV shows, including McMillan and Wife and Hawaii Five-O. In 1973, she played Erica Jordan, Mary's temporary replacement at WJM-TV, in the season four episode, "Better Late...That's a Pun...Than Never", in The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Personal life

Leak married actor Tim Matheson, having met during the filming of Yours, Mine and Ours. They were married from 1968 to 1971.

References

  1. ^ "Jennifer Leak". The New York Times.