Leigh Hennessy

Leigh Hennessy is a world and US National trampoline champion. In the late 1990s, she translated her athletic career into one as an actress and stunt performer in the film and television industries. She also co-authored her first book with her brother, Jefferson Hennessy, Jr., and husband, Mark Robson: The Day of the Cajundome Mega-Shelter. Her second book, Don't Get Stuck on Stupid by Lt. General Russel Honoré, was co-authored with her husband and General Honoré.

Leigh's father, Jeff Hennessy,^[1] a retired associate professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then named the University of Southwestern Louisiana) was an expert in the sport of trampolining and was her first trampoline coach. In 1978, she was the first athlete, male or female, to win all three trampoline events in the US National Championships, won three gold medals in the World Age-Group Championships and was honored by the Southern Amateur Athletic Union as Athlete of the Year along with Olympic Track Star, Willie Davenport. According to Guinness World Records, she holds the record for winning the most US national championships in trampoline for women. She competed for the United States in numerous world championships in individual trampoline, synchronized trampoline, and double mini-trampoline, winning two Senior level world titles.

After earning a master's degree in communication at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and working for Congressman Jimmy Hayes in Washington, D.C., Leigh's career shifted to stunt work in Hollywood. Among her list of credits includes performing stunts for Demi Moore as her stunt double in GI Jane, performing 90-foot high-falls for Lucy Liu in both Charlie's Angels movies and, in 2006, she shared the opening scenes of The Guardian with Kevin Costner, in which she played the role of the drowning wife. She was nominated for a Taurus World Stunt Award in 2007 for her work in this movie.