Leslie brown bio

American prima ballerina and actress

Leslie Browne (born June 29, 1957) is an American prima ballerina and actress. She was a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre in New York City from 1986 until 1993.

She was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress,^[2] as well as a Golden Globe Award^[3] at age 20, for portraying a young dancer invited to join a large New York ballet company in The Turning Point (1977).

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Personal life

She was born in New York, the daughter of dancers Isabel Mirrow (1928-2014) and Kelly Kingman Brown (1928-1981).^[4] Her middle name, Sue, was the name of her maternal grandmother, Sue Brown, a respected dance teacher in Mississippi.

The late Nora Kaye and Herbert Ross were her godparents. She has two brothers and one sister; her brother Kevin is a film producer. At the age of seven she began dancing, and trained at her father's studio in Arizona, along with her brother Ethan an