Jane Leeves

Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Jane Elizabeth Leeves (born 18 April 1961)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is an English actress, best known for her role as Daphne Moon on the NBC sitcom Frasier (1993–2004), for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 50th Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film at the 52nd Golden Globe Awards.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She also played Joy Scroggs on TV Land's sitcom Hot in Cleveland.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Leeves made her screen debut with a small role in 1983 on the British television comedy programme The Benny Hill Show, and appeared as a dancer in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.<ref>Template:Cite AV media</ref> She moved to the United States, where she performed in small roles. From 1986 to 1988, she played her first leading character in the sitcom Throb,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> then secured brief recurring parts in the sitcoms Seinfeld and Murphy Brown. She was cast 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 appearing in the Fox medical drama The Resident.

Career

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Leeves at the 1994 Emmys

The daughter of an engineer and a nurse, Jane Leeves was born in Ilford, Essex, England. She was raised in East Grinstead, Sussex, along with two sisters and a brother. She was a regular on The Benny Hill Show, in the dance troupe Hill's Angels. She made use of her experience as a dancer in a scene in the 1983 film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In the US, she appeared as a tourist with a baby in the video for David Lee Roth's song "California Girls",Template:Citation needed but struggled for several years to establish an acting career. She had a role as Serena, a lesbian avant-garde dancer, the girlfriend of the girlfriend of Willem Dafoe's character Eric Masters, in the 1985 film To Live and Die in L.A..Template:Fact She then became somewhat visible as the flighty record company employee Blue (née Prudence Anne Bartlett) on the 1986-1988 syndicated sitcom Throb.Template:Citation needed

She had a recurring role in the television series Murphy Brown as Audrey Cohen, the smart but awkward girlfriend of producer Miles Silverberg (played by Grant Shaud). She also appeared as the troublesome virgin Marla Penny in four episodes of Seinfeld: "The Virgin", "The Contest", "The Pilot" and "The Finale – Part 2". During this period, Leeves was cast as Holly for the pilot of the US version of the science-fiction comedy Red Dwarf.

In 1993, Leeves joined the cast of the television series Frasier as 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 Crane (portrayed by David Hyde Pierce). By the conclusion of Frasier, Leeves had been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 50th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1998, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film at the 52nd Golden Globe Awards in 1995.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Appearing less frequently in cinema, Leeves lent her speaking and singing voices to the animated film James and the Giant Peach (1996) as Mrs. Ladybug, and appeared in Music of the Heart (1999). In 2002, she appeared in the Broadway musical Cabaret.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Leeves in August 2012

Leeves provided guest vocals in The Penguins of Madagascar as Lulu, a female chimp with whom Phil fell in love. With her Frasier costar Peri Gilpin, Leeves also set up the production company Bristol Cities (cockney rhyming slang for 'titties').<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Their last project was in 2007, a pilot for a US remake of the British sitcom The Vicar of Dibley titled The Minister of Divine with Kirstie Alley in the title role.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2010, Leeves guest starred in two episodes in ABC's Desperate Housewives as Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman)'s and Tom Scavo (Doug Savant)'s therapist Dr. Graham.Template:Fact

From 2010 until 2015, Leeves 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 (also her co-star in the final season of Frasier) and Betty White. In 2011, she was nominated Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series with the rest of the cast at the 17th Screen Actors Guild Awards.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The series ended in 2015 after six seasons and 128 episodes. She returned to television in 2018 with her first regular role in a dramatic series, orthopaedic surgeon Kit Voss.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the Fox medical drama The Resident.

Personal life

Leeves is married to Marshall Coben, a CBS Studios executive. Peri Gilpin, Leeves's co-star on Frasier, is her neighbor and close friend<ref name="clevelandmagazine/leeves">Template:Cite news</ref> and was in the delivery room when Leeves's first child was born.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the season 8 episode 17 of Frasier, "It Takes Two to Tangle", Niles tells Gilpin's character Roz Doyle that Leeves' character Daphne has lost 9 lb 12 oz at the health spa: a reference to the actual weight of Leeves' baby girl.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	Nice to See You	Performer	Television film
1983	Monty Python's The Meaning of Life	Dancer	UncreditedTemplate:Citation needed
	The Hunger
1985	To Live and Die in L.A.	Serena	Credited as Jane Leaves
1992	Just Deserts	Amy Phillips
1994	Mr. Write	Wylie
	Miracle on 34th Street	Alberta Leonard
1996	James and the Giant Peach	Mrs. Ladybug	Voice
	Pandora's Clock	Rachel Sherwood	Television film
	The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century	Caroline Webb	Voice
1999	Don't Go Breaking My Heart	Juliet Gosling
	Music of the Heart	Dorothea von Haeften
2002	The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina	Margaret Beetle	Voice role
2003	The Event	Mona Rothchild
2006	Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties	Eenie	Voice
2009	Endless Bummer	Liv
2012	What About Dick?	Emma Schlegel

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983–1985	The Benny Hill Show	Hill's Angel	4 episodes
1986–1988	Throb	Prudence Anne "Blue" Bartlett	Main role
1987	Murder, She Wrote	Gwen Petrie	Episode: "It Runs in the Family"
1989	It's a Living	Terry Tedaldo	Episode: "I Never Sang for My Father"
	Mr. Belvedere	Professor Ann Burns	Episode: "The Professor"
	Hooperman	Annie	Episode: "Stakeout"
1989–1993	Murphy Brown	Audrey Cohen	9 episodes
1990	My Two Dads	Harriet	Episode: "See You in September?"
	Room for Romance		Episode: "A Midsummer Night's Reality"
	Who's the Boss?	Ms. Adams	Episode: "Parental Guidance Suggested"
1991	Blossom	Sheila	Episode: "Love Stinks"
1992	Red Dwarf USA	Holly	Unsold
1992–1998	Seinfeld	Marla Penny	4 episodes
1993–2004	Frasier	Daphne Moon	Main role; 264 episodes
1995	Caroline in the City	Daphne Moon	Episode: "Caroline and the Bad Back"
1998	Hercules	Athena	6 episodes
2003	The Simpsons	Edwina	Voice, episode: "The Regina Monologues"
2004	Have I Got News For You	Guest Presenter	1 episode
2006	Misconceptions	Amanda Watson	7 episodes
	Twenty Good Years	Mary Frances	Episode: "Big Love"
2008	The Starter Wife	Ann Hefton	2 episodes
2009–2011	The Penguins of Madagascar	Lulu	Voice, 2 episodes
2009–2013	Phineas and Ferb	Various Characters	4 episodes
2010	Desperate Housewives	Dr. Graham	2 episodes
	Notes from the Underbelly	Gracie	Episode: "Accidental Family Bed"
2010–2015	Hot in Cleveland	Joy Scroggs	Main role
2016	Crowded	Gwen	Episode: "The Fixer"
	Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures	Lt. Estoc	Voice, 2 episodes
2017	The Great Indoors	Cheryl	Episode: "Roland's Secret"
2017–2019	Mickey and the Roadster Racers	Queen of England, Babette Beagle	Voice, 4 episodes
2018	We Bare Bears	Ari Curd	Voice, episode: "Googs"
2018–2023	The Resident	Dr. Kitt Voss	Series regular

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
1994	Viewers for Quality Television	Best Supporting Actress in a Quality Comedy Series	Frasier	Template:Nom
1995	Golden Globe Awards	Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film		Template:Nom
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series		Template:Nom
	Viewers for Quality Television	Best Supporting Actress in a Quality Comedy Series		Template:Won
1996	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series		Template:Nom
1997	Screen Actors Guild Awards			Template:Nom
	Viewers for Quality Television	Best Supporting Actress in a Quality Comedy Series		Template:Nom
1998	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series		Template:Nom
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series		Template:Nom
	Viewers for Quality Television	Best Supporting Actress in a Quality Comedy Series		Template:Nom
1999	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series		Template:Nom
	Viewers for Quality Television	Best Supporting Actress in a Quality Comedy Series		Template:Nom
2000	Satellite Awards	Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy		Template:Nom
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series		Template:Won
	Viewers for Quality Television	Best Supporting Actress in a Quality Comedy Series		Template:Nom
2001	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series		Template:Nom
2002	Screen Actors Guild Awards			Template:Nom
2003	Screen Actors Guild Awards			Template:Nom
2004	Satellite Awards	Best Supporting Actress – Television Series		Template:Nom
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series		Template:Nom
2011	Screen Actors Guild Awards		Hot in Cleveland	Template:Nom

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