Makenzie Leigh

Makenzie Leigh
Born	(1990-08-08) August 8, 1990 Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2011–present

Makenzie Leigh (born August 8, 1990) is an American actress, noted for playing the protagonist's romantic interest in Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016).

Early life

Leigh was born in Dallas, Texas on August 8, 1990. While attending NYU, she took an acting class in an effort to improve her work in a writing class, hoping to better understand how actors develop characters.

Career

Between 2011 and 2016, Leigh appeared in episodes of eight different television series, as well as three feature films.

Her first major role came as Liza in the first season of the Batman prequel television series Gotham (2014–2015). She was also featured in a regular role in the 2015 television miniseries The Slap, a remake of the Australian series of the same name.

Leigh played a supporting role in the film James White (2015) and played a small part in Mozart in the Jungle.

Leigh had an extremely prominent role as Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Faison Zorn, Billy Lynn's romantic fixation, in the Ang Lee-directed film Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016), noted for being the first feature film using an extra high frame rate of 120 frames per second, as well as having been shot in 3D with 4K resolution.

External links

• Makenzie Leigh at IMDb
• Makenzie Leigh article in Vanity Fair Magazine
• Makenzie Leigh article in InStyle Magazine