Known for:	Soylent Green, Sunset Beach, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
Birth name:	Leigh Young
Birthday:	25 January 1944, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Height:	5' 7" (1.70 m)
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Older sister of actress Dey Young and writer/director Lance Young. She and Ryan share a son, Patrick O'Neal. Has grand-daughter Sophia (b. 1996) and Veronica (b. 2001) through Patrick's marriage to Rebecca De Mornay. Began her formal education as an Economics major at Northwestern University, which soon changed to Theater and studied under the renowned teacher, Alvina Krause. Subsequently, following graduation, she continued her studies in New York City with Sanford Meisner, at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Has worked for Ted Turner's Better World Society. An ordained minister in the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness and works closely with John Roger, an educator and Wayshower. Special Advisor in Arts and Media for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), as well as a representative for the Institute for the Study of Individual and World Peace. Also the Goodwill Ambassador from the United Nations for ICEBRIDGE: First Artic Environmental Forum in 1995. Said in an interview that she was very nervous about doing her love scene with Charlton Heston in Soylent Green. Until 1999 she lived at 1221 N. Kings Rd. in the same appartment where Jack Cassidy had died in 1976. Is the voice of the Search for Serenity audio meditations for "The Course in Miracles," speaking on behalf of the Institute for Individual and World Peace and has worked with Ted Turner's Better World Society, UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme), Hands Across America, The Heartfelt Foundation and the American Cancer Society and hosted the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon. When a New York play she was appearing in suddenly closed after only five weeks, Leigh became so stressed out that she contracted pneumonia. While recuperating at a Palm Springs spa in California, she was introduced to organic food and healthy, rejuvenating sunshine, turned her life around, and has to this day maintained her "Total Health" regimen of meditation, physical movement and healthy nutrition. Is sometimes confused by fans with Susan Sarandon and Lesley Ann Warren. While filming the shower scene with Charlton Heston in Soylent Green (1973) she tried to break her tension by joking that Heston could part the shower water, a reference to his star making role as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956). Heston himself did not get the reference.

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