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Leslie Mann is an American actress born on 26th March 1972 in San Francisco, California. She is especially known for her comic acting. Her height is 5' 6½". Her most striking features are her enchanting blue eyes and her high pitched voice. She is best known for her performances in movies like The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People and This Is 40. Her net worth is $18 million. Details of her early life Leslie lived with her mother Janet in Newport Beach. Her mother was a single parent and worked in the real estate. While Leslie’s maternal grandmother was of Finnish origin and her maternal grandfather a Scottish person, her father’s ancestors were German and Irish. Leslie’s mother married thrice, and Leslie never developed any close relationship with her father. She went to Corona del Mar High School. In school, she was a shy and introvert kid. She attended The Joanne Baron/D. W. Brown Studio in Santa Monica to study acting and worked on comedy improvisation with a group called The Groundlings, based in Los Angeles. She joined college to study communications but dropped out before graduating from there. Mann‘s life in her late teens and early twenties wasn’t as quite as expected. She describes the period as abstruse, confused and unpleasing. She was interested in acting since her childhood. She felt, through her acting she could readily express herself in a character, and it would enable her to share every emotion and thought. She always fantasized about winning an award. Acting Career She began early with her acting career. While she was still 17, she auditioned for and advertised Coke and Nouvage, a nail paint brand. She started as an extra in her first project Virgin High. But owing to her acting school lessons, she managed to get roles in films like Birdland (she played Nurse Mary) Last Man Standing and Things I Never Told You. These movies weren’t very popular. In 1996, she was chosen among the 500 candidates in an open audition for a movie which also proved to be her first blockbuster The Cable Guy in which she portrayed Robin Harris, the girlfriend of Matthew Broderick’s character. The movie was a dark comedy and starred Jim Carrey; the direction of that movie was done by Ben Stiller.

Octavia Lenora Spencer born in Montgomery, Alabama, the US on May 25, 1972, is an author and American actress. Spencer has six siblings which include her sisters named Areka and Rosa. Her mother’s name is Dellsena Spenser who died in the year 1988 and worked as a maid when she was alive. Jefferson Davis High School was the school from where Spencer has completed her graduation in the year 1988. She has also studied at Auburn University and has a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts. Spencer has worked on the set of “The Long Walk Home,” at the age of 19. The film has an actor named Whoopi Goldberg Her debut film name was- “A Time to Kill” in which she played the role of a nurse based on John Grisham’s book. In 2011, she acted in the period film named “The Help” as Minny Jackson for which she became popular.