Leslie Jean Mann was born in San Francisco, California. She was raised in Newport Beach, California by her mother, Janet Ann Ayres. At the age of 17 she launched her career, appearing in various TV commercials. Her screen break came when she was cast as Nurse Mary in the short-lived _"Birdland" , Scottish, English, Irish, and German descent.
Has two daughters, Maude Apatow (born 1997) and Iris Apatow , with husband Judd Apatow.
Met her husband on the set of The Cable Guy , a movie he produced.
The Cable Guy co-star Jim Carrey described her looks as bearing resemblance to Marlene Dietrich.
Leslies father is of Irish and German ancestry. Leslies maternal grandfather, Thomas Hamilton, was a Scottish immigrant, while Leslies maternal grandmother, Sadie Helj Viola Rsnen, was born in Michigan, to Finnish parents.
Prefers her name to be pronounced "Less-lee", not "Lez-lee", despite having allowed her husband Judd Apatow to say "Lez-lee" for over 18 years.
Leslies Maternal Grandmother, Sadie Rasanen, was born in Baraga Michigan. By 1940 she had moved to lower Michigan and became a telegraph operator. Her Great Grandfather, Peter Rasanan, worked at the Ford saw mill in Baraga. He was a fireman (stoked the steam plant boilers) and later became a Stationary Engineer. Ford Motor company used a tremendous amount of wood to produce automobiles in the early years. They had substantial timber interests in Michigans Upper Peninsula. Eventually Ford spun off their wood production interests. One of the spin offs became Kingsford charcoal.
When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I,had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of,things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.
Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out.
Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.
Perfect people are the scariest people to me.
Auditioning is so nerve-racking.
I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like,Shirley MacLaine.
I feel very protective of younger actresses, because it was so hard for,me in the business.
Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.
Men. We love them. We respect them. But we rarely get to objectify them.
I never felt comfortable leaving my kids until they were older. When,they were babies, I remember thinking that I could never go on a Jerry,Bruckheimer set and feel comfortable.
(2007, on throwing up on Steve Carell on 40 Year Old Virgin) It was,strawberry yogurt and some kind of kefir to make it a little runnier. I,had to take big gulps of that and then spit it all over Steve.
