Jane Leeves Biography
Jane Elizabeth Leeves is an English actress. She played Daphne Moon on the television sitcom Frasier from 1993 until 2004, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She is also known for her role as Joy Scroggs on TV Land’s sitcom Hot in Cleveland. She moved to the United States, where she performed in small roles. She received further recognition for roles in films such as Miracle on 34th street (1994), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Music of the Heart (1999), and The Event (2003). In 2018, she began starring in the Fox medical drama, The Resident.
How old is Jane Leeves? – Age
The English actress is 60 years old as of 18th April 2021. She was born in 1961 in East Grinstead, England, United Kingdom.
Who are Jane Leeves Parents? – Father and mother
Who is Jane Leeves Married to? – Spouse
The English actress is a married lady. She has been married to Marshall Coben, a CBS Paramount Television executive, since 21 December 1996. They are madly in love with each other and always lives together since then. They are parents of two children.
Jane Leeves Children
The couple have two children. Her first pregnancy was written into a Frasier plot as a weight-gaining problem for her character. Frasier co-star Peri Gilpin was in the delivery room when her first child was born. She is godmother of Gilpin’s daughter and lives next door to Gilpin in Los Angeles, California. Her children are namely; Isabella Kathryn Coben and Finn William Leeves.
Jane Leeves Career
The actress was a regular on The Benny Hill show, later making use of her experience as a dancer in a scene in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life and appeared as a tourist with a baby in the David Lee Roth music video for the song “California Girls”, but struggled for several years to establish herself. She became somewhat visible as the flighty record company employee, Blue, on the syndicated sitcom Throb.
She had a recurring role in the television series Murphy Brown which provided her first period of success, playing Audrey, the smart but awkward girlfriend of producer Miles Silverberg. The actress also appeared as the troublesome Marla the Virgin in four episodes of seinfeld: “The Virgin”, “The Contest”, “The Pilot”, and “The Finale-part 2”.
During this period, the actress was cast as Holly for the pilot of the US version of the science-fiction comedy Red Dwarf. In 1993, she joined the cast of the television series Frasier. She played the eccentric, forthright, and psychic Mancunian Daphne Moon. By the start of the eighth season, Leeves was pregnant, and the writers incorporated her pregnancy into shows as weight gain due to her character’s stress from her relationship with Niles.
By the conclusion of Frasier, the actress had received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding supporting Actress in a Comedy series nomination in 1998 and also a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress- series, Miniseries or Television Film nomination in 1995 for her role and had become the highest-paid British actress in Hollywood.
In 2002, the actress appeared in the Broadway musical Cabaret. In 2004, she hosted an episode of the television comedy quiz show Have I Got News for You. Her 2006 show, The WB’s sitcom Misconceptions, went unaired. She provided guest vocals in The Penguins of Madagascar as Lulu, a female chimp, with which Phil fell in love. With Peri Gilpin, she also set up the production company Bristol Cities. Their last project was in 2007, a pilot for a US remake of the British sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, with Kirstie Alley in the title role.
In 2010, the actress guest starred in two episodes in ABC’s Desperate Housewives as Lynette and Tom’s therapist, Dr. Graham. From 2010 until 2015, she played the 40-something ex ‘eyebrow artist to the stars’ Joy Scroggs in the TV Land comedy, Hot in Cleveland, with Valerie Bertinelli, Wendie Malick, and Betty White.
In 2011, she was nominated Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding performance by an Ensemble in a comedy series along with the rest of the cast. The series ended in 2015 after six seasons and 128 episodes. She returned to television in 2018, with her first series regular role in a dramatic series, the Fox medical drama The Resident playing orthopaedic surgeon Kitt Voss.
Jane Leeves Net worth
The English actress has an estimated net worth of $16 million as of 2021.
