Leslie parrish actress biography
She started as a model, and in became an actress.
Leslie Parrish (born Marjorie Hellen; March 13, ) is an American actress, activist, environmentalist, writer, and producer..
Leslie Parrish (born March 18, 1935) is a musician and an American actress who worked under her birth name, �Marjorie Hellen� until she changed it to Leslie Parrish
in 1959.
More importantly: she is also a producer, writer, activist and environmentalist.
She was born in Melrose, Massachusetts and also lived in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey before settling in Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania at the age of 10.
== Education ==
At age 14, she was a promising piano/composition student at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music (now merged with other art institutes to become University of the
Arts, Philadelphia) working her way through college as a maid and later, (at age 16) by teaching piano and doing waitress work.
At 19, as her teachers became more
expensive, she could not earn enough to cover another full year of studies so had to take a year off to work and save money. She had no interest in modeling or acting,
but her mother convinced her that in one year of mode
