Leslie Jones Bio | Wiki
Leslie Jones (Full Name: Annette “Leslie” Jones) is a popular American comedian, actress, and writer who is the host of Supermarket Sweep. She was a cast member and writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2014 through 2019. Leslie has also been a featured performer at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal and also the Aspen Comedy Festival.
In 2010, Leslie’s one-hour comedy special, Problem Child, became broadcast on Showtime. Leslie appeared in Ghostbusters in 2016 as Patty Tolan. In 2017 and 2018, Leslie became nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series due to her work on Saturday Night Live.
Leslie Jones Age
Leslie was born on September 7, 1967, in Memphis, Tennessee, in the United States. She is 55 years old. Leslie celebrates her birthday on September 7, every year.
Leslie Jones Height
She is a woman of tall stature. Leslie stands at a height of 6 ft 0 in (Approx 1.83 m).
Leslie Jones Family
She was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Leslie had a younger brother, Rodney Keith Jones who was born in 1971 and died in 2009. Leslie’s father was in the United States Army, and her family moved frequently. Leslie’s family went to Los Angeles, when her dad took a job at Stevie Wonder’s radio station, KJLH, as an electronics engineer.
Leslie Jones Partner
She and Kyle Mooney sparked dating speculations following co-starring as love interests in “SNL” comedy sketches. In a 2016 skit titled “Love and Leslie,” Leslie and Kyle teased that they had a secret office romance. However, Leslie confirmed that they were not dating.
Leslie Jones Daughter
She is not married and currently, there are no details concerning if Leslie has a daughter.
Leslie Jones Education
She went to high school in Lynwood, California, where Leslie also played basketball; her dad suggested that she play the sport due to her being six feet tall. Later on,. Leslie went to Chapman University on a basketball scholarship. She later contemplated pursuing a pre-law degree, but changed her major many times, such as for a time to accounting and computer science, prior to deciding to major in communications.
Leslie Jones Movies And Tv Shows
– For Love of the Game (1999)
– National Security (2003) as Britney
– Lottery Ticket (2010) as Tasha
– Trainwreck (20159 as Angry Subway Patron
– Ghostbusters (2016) as Patricia “Patty” Tolan
– Masterminds (2016) as FBI Special Agent Scanlon
– The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019) as Zeta
– Coming 2 America (2021) as Mary Junson
– Girlfriends (2004) as Mabel
– Mind of Mencia (2007) as Nurse Brownsugar/Bodyguard
– Daddy Knows Best (2012) as Angry Woman
– The League (2013) as Stand Up Student
– Saturday Night Live (2014-2019) various
– The Blacklist (2016) as Citizen
– Supermarket Sweep (2020) as host
– Death to 2020 (2020) as Dr. Maggie Gravel
– Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2020) as herself
– Our Flag Means Death (2022) as Spanish Jackie
– Out of Office (2022) as Ally
– The Daily Show (2023) as Guest Host
Leslie Jones Olympics
In the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Leslie regularly live-tweeted events and posted clips of her reactions. Enthusiasm for Leslie’s commentary grew, with articles appearing like The Huffington Post’s “Watching her Watch The Olympics Is Better Than The Actual Olympics”.
Television producer Mike Shoemaker, one of Leslie’s Twitter followers, uploaded on Twitter that his peer Jim Bell, NBC’s executive producer of the network’s Olympics coverage, should add Leslie to NBC’s team of commentators covering the Games; Bell responded on Twitter the following day asking Leslie to join NBC in Rio de Janeiro. Leslie accepted and flew to Rio de Janeiro, reporting swimming, track, and field, gymnastics, as well as beach volleyball for NBC.
She replayed her duties at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea and live-tweeted again for the canceled 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Leslie live-tweeted for the last time for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. She wrote a text on Twitter stating that this would be the final Olympics that she would live-tweet, claiming broadcaster NBC is pressuring her to stop.
Leslie Jones Kate McKinnon
In 2016, Leslie appeared in the reboot Ghostbusters as Patty Tolan, with Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Kate McKinnon. Leslie and Kate met on the set of “SNL.” While Kate had been a regular on the show first and got her start in 2012, Leslie joined the cast in 2014 prior to leaving in 2019 to pursue other projects.
Leslie Jones Comedian
She started doing stand-up comedy in college in 1987, when a peer signed her up for a “Funniest Person on Campus” contest. Following winning the contest, Leslie left school for Los Angeles. Leslie performed at comedy clubs while serving day jobs at Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles and UPS to make ends meet.
She was inspired by Comedians Mother Love and Dave Chappelle to move to New York City to hone her craft for two years, where Leslie appeared on BET’s ComicView prior to returning to Los Angeles. Leslie performed at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood but got unfavorable reviews of her shows there. She later went out on tour, opening for Jamie Foxx where Leslie became booed by his audience. Feeling as though she had no experience, Leslie quit performing for three years.
Fearing that Leslie would only ever be known in African American circles, around 2010 Leslie started to stop playing so-called “black clubs” One night, Chris Rock saw Leslie perform and gave her name to many of “the biggest managers in comedy” all of whom “didn’t get it”. Chris would finally help Leslie get a job at Saturday Night Live. In 2008, Leslie was part of Katt Williams’s It’s Pimpin’ Pimpin’ tour. Netflix signed Leslie for a stand-up special slated for 2020.
Leslie Jones Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live held a casting call in December 2013, to add at least one African-American woman to the show, and Leslie auditioned. Before being asked to audition, Leslie had criticized the show, claiming that the show, and especially cast member Kenan Thompson, was “not funny”.
Leslie Jones Net Worth
Leslie gets her wealth from her work as a comedian, actress, and writer who is the host of Supermarket Sweep. Therefore, Leslie has accumulated a decent fortune over the years. Leslie’s estimated net worth is $7 million.
How Old Is Leslie Jones
Leslie is a 55-year-old who was born on September 7, 1967, in Memphis, Tennessee, in the United States.
Who Is Leslie Jones
Leslie is a comedian, actress, and writer who is the host of Supermarket Sweep. She was a cast member and writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2014 through 2019. Leslie has also been a featured performer at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal and also the Aspen Comedy Festival.