Conor Leslie

After appearing in commercials with a friend, Leslie attributed becoming dedicated to her acting career at age 15.[4] She was cast in the Spike Lee-directed pilot for M.O.N.Y. in 2007, but the pilot did not receive a series order.[5] Her television debut came in 2009 with a guest appearance on The Unusuals as Karen Delmonte, the high school girlfriend of Detective Eric Delahoy.[6] The following year, she played Eliza, a 17-year-old caught exposing herself on webcam in the series finale of Law & Order, Mia Caruso, a magazine intern whose publisher is murdered in Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and flirtatious student Parker in 90210 and made her film debut in Beware the Gonzo as Amy, a popular high school student.[7] Leslie's guest roles on television continued in 2011 with an appearance in No Ordinary Family as Chloe Cotten, a new friend of the Powell family.[3]

In 2012, Leslie portrayed Angie in the psychological thriller film Chained, a young woman abducted by a serial killer to be murdered by his reluctant apprentice.[7] DVD Talk reviewer Jamie S. Rich praised her performance and although critical of the overall film, wrote that Leslie played her character "with heartbreaking gravity".[8]

After being cast in the unaired pilot for Widow Detective, Leslie appeared in the series Rizzoli & Isles as Ms. Barlow, the law clerk of a murdered judge, and Revenge as Bianca, a maid working for the Grayson family, in 2013.[3] She was also seen as enigmatic college student Greta in Campus Life, a 2013 film created for the website JumpView.[1] A re-edited version of the film was later released to home media in 2015 as Campus Code.[9] Additionally, Leslie was featured in the music video for the Dan Godlin song "Did She Look" as Godlin's love interest.[10]

Leslie landed her first series regular role as young courtesan Sabine in Klondike, a Discovery Channel miniseries about the Klondike Gold Rush.[11] The first scripted series broadcast by the Discovery Channel, it aired in early 2014.[12] Leslie also played sociopath Kelly Donovan in an episode of Hawaii Five-0 and appeared in the film Parts per Billion as Des, a former girlfriend of Penn Badgley's character, during the year.[13]

Leslie's on-screen appearances in 2015 began with The Man in the High Castle as Trudy Walker, the half-sister of Juliana Crain. Although the character was killed in the first episode, she returned for the second and third seasons, where it was revealed that Trudy was still alive in a different timeline.[14][15] Leslie went on to portray spaceship computer Natasha as a series regular in Yahoo! Screen's science fiction comedy Other Space.[16] Yahoo! Screen would be shut down the following year, preventing the series from being renewed for a second season.[17] In addition to The Man in the High Castle and Other Space, she played Gwen Hollander, the fiancée of a socialite exploited by Tom Keen in the series The Blacklist, Mary Lowe, the sister of a woman believed to have been murdered by her husband in the series Major Crimes, and Nicole, an unrequited love interest of Ricky Mabe's character in the film Dirty Beautiful.[3]

During 2016, Leslie was cast as Molly Parsons, a dating site employee with a tragic background in an episode of Elementary.[18] She was later featured in a recurring role in Graves as Tasha Ludwig, a girlfriend of Jeremy Graves.[19]

In 2017, Leslie played Sarah Ellis, the aide to Helen Hunt's fictional North Carolina governor, in a regular role on Fox's miniseries Shots Fired.[20] Additionally, she portrayed sexual assault victim Holly Greco in an episode of Gone and Amber, a young woman unaware of her boyfriend's homosexuality in the short film Down, directed by her brother Dylan.[21]

Leslie starred in the 2018 short film Shrimp as Sasha, a dominatrix at a BDSM den.[22] The short premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was picked up by Gunpowder & Sky to become a potential television series.[23]

Later in the year, Leslie became the first actress to portray Donna Troy, the original Wonder Girl, in live-action with her casting on the DC Universe series Titans.[24][25] Following the character's on-screen introduction in the self-titled eighth episode, Chancellor Agard of Entertainment Weekly described Leslie as "perfect as Donna" and wrote that Donna was "automatically [his] favorite thing about the show."[26] Appearing as a guest star during the first season, Leslie was named a series regular for Titans' second season in 2019.[27] She is scheduled to return for the third season in 2021, despite her character's death in the season two finale.[28]

In between the second and third season of Titans, Leslie appeared in the 2020 music video for the Rhye song "Helpless" as a yoga instructor who becomes the subject of a student's romantic fantasies.[29] She will also appear in the upcoming comedy-thriller film Dark Web: Cicada 3301, directed by her Titans co-star Alan Ritchson, as Gwen, a secretive librarian who becomes involved with the eponymous organization.[30] The film is scheduled to be released in March 2021.[31][32]

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