Jennifer Mary Leak (September 28, 1947 – March 18, 2024) was a Canadian film and television actress, best known for her role as Colleen North in the 1968 film Yours, Mine and Ours.
Early life Leak was born on September 28, 1947, in Cardiff, Wales. Throughout her childhood, she grew up in various places, including Hertfordshire, England; Nova Scotia, Canada; Jerusalem; and Toronto. She began her career in Canada at the age of 17 after she appeared in the pilot of the Canadian television series Wojeck. Leak later moved to Los Angeles, and within a few months, she was cast as Lucille Ball's daughter in the 1968 feature Yours, Mine and Ours. On that set, Leak met her first husband, Tim Matheson.
Career 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, Leak 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 program The Young and the Restless.
Leak also played guest spots on various television 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 and death Leak was married to Tim Matheson from 1968 to 1971. She was later married to James D'Auria. Leak died in Jupiter, Florida on March 18, 2024, at the age of 76, after suffering with progressive supranuclear palsy for seven years.
Filmography
Film +YearTitleRole Notes1968Yours, Mine and OursColleen North1969Eye of the CatPoor Dear1974 The PhotographerElowise Atkins1981 The IncubusDeena Ferrin1985Agent on IceHelen Pope
Television YearTitleRole Notes1966WojeckGale Fletcher2 episodes1969 The Good GuysSuziEpisode: "Take a Computer to Lunch"1969Hawaii Five-ODiana ColeEpisode: "King Kamehameha Blues"1970Lost FlightBeejay CaldwellTelevision film1972 The Delphi BureauJudy RogersEpisode: "The Top Secret Secret Project"1973 A Time for LovePatriciaTelevision film1973McMillan & WifeNellEpisode: "Death of a Monster... Birth of a Legend"1973 The RookiesSister AnneEpisode: "Prayers Unanswered, Prayers Unheard"1974 The Mary Tyler Moore ShowErica JordanEpisode: "Better Late... That's a Pun... Than Never"1974IronsideJudith MacDaneEpisode: "A Death in Academe"1975Ryan's HopeNurse KlupperEpisode #1.441976–1979Another WorldOlive Randolph6 episodes1981Nero WolfeElizabeth MarshEpisode: "Murder by the Book"1981Guiding LightBlanche BouvierEpisode dated 31 July 19811986One Life to LiveMatron SpitzEpisode dated 26 September 19861992LovingDr. Hennessy2 episodes
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