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Lesleh Donaldson is a Actor Canadienne born on 7 april 1964 at Toronto (Canada)
Lesleh Donaldson (born April 7, 1964) is a Canadian actress who has worked in stage and film.
She has appeared in a number of films but is generally best remembered for her roles in several horror movies including Funeral Home (1980), Happy Birthday to Me (1981), Curtains (1983), and Deadly Eyes (1982).
Her first theatrical film appearance was in Running (1979) starring Michael Douglas.
She then starred in a number of theatrically released horror movies, including William Fruet's Funeral Home (also known as Cries in the Night) (1980), J. Lee Thompson's Happy Birthday to Me (1981), Deadly Eyes (1982) and Curtains (1983).
She also appeared in an episode of the television horror series Friday the 13th: The Series.
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Lesleh Donaldson
She has appeared in a number of films but is generally best remembered for her roles in several horror movies including Funeral Home (1980), Happy Birthday to Me (1981), Curtains (1983), and Deadly Eyes (1982).
Biography
Donaldson was born in Toronto, Ontario. As a child, she studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Canada and appeared in early television commercials for Ford automobiles. In the late 1970s, she appeared in several made-for-television movies including On My Own about a teeneger suffering from epilepsy.Her first theatrical film appearance was in Running (1979) starring Michael Douglas.
She then starred in a number of theatrically released horror movies, including William Fruet's Funeral Home (also known as Cries in the Night) (1980), J. Lee Thompson's Happy Birthday to Me (1981), Deadly Eyes (1982) and Curtains (1983).
She also appeared in an episode of the television horror series Friday the 13th: The Series.
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Curtains (1983)
, 1h30Directed by Richard Ciupka
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime, Slasher
Themes Films about television
Actors John Vernon, Linda Thorson, Samantha Eggar, Lynne Griffin, Lesleh Donaldson, William Horace Marshall
Roles Christie Burns
Rating55%
Samantha Sherwood, a beautiful actress and muse for director Jonathan Stryker, has herself committed to a mental institution as method preparation for the titular role of a mentally unstable woman in a film called Audra. Once finding out Stryker is letting a new group of girls audition for the role of Audra, she escapes the asylum for revenge.
Deadly Eyes (1982)
, 1h27Directed by Robert Clouse
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films
Actors Scatman Crothers, Sara Botsford, Cec Linder, Lisa Langlois, Lesleh Donaldson, Michael McManus
Rating49%
The plot and subplots center on the movie's leading man, Paul Harris (Sam Groom), a divorced high school teacher and basketball coach and his interactions during a killer rat infestation with a health department inspector Kelly (Sara Botsford); a high school cheerleader, Trudy (Lisa Langlois); his students; and his friend, Dr. Spencer (Cec Linder), a college professor and rat expert.
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
, 1h51Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Serial killer films, Teen movie
Actors Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Sharon Acker, Lawrence Dane, Frances Hyland, Tracey Elizabeth Bregman
Roles Bernadette O'Hara
Rating60%
Virginia "Ginny" Wainwright is a pretty and popular high school senior at Crawford Academy. She is one of her school's "Top Ten," an elite clique which comprises the richest, most popular and most snobbish teens at the Academy. The Top Ten meet every night at the Silent Woman Tavern, a pub near Crawford's campus.
Cries in the Night (1981)
, 1h33Directed by William Fruet
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Lesleh Donaldson, Alf Humphreys, Harvey Atkin, Barry Morse
Roles Heather
Rating51%
A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her grandmother turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. But soon after they open, guests begin to either disappear and/or turn up dead.
Running (1979)
, 1h37Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Athletics films, Films about the Olympic Games
Actors Michael Douglas, Susan Anspach, Lawrence Dane, Eugene Levy, Philip Akin, Gordon Clapp
Roles Andrea Andropolis
Rating59%
Un père de famille divorcé dont la vie professionnelle vacille se fixe comme objectif ultime de disputer le marathon se déroulant durant les Jeux olympiques.