Leslie Browne (born June 29, 1957) is an American prima ballerina and actress. She was a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre in New York City from 1986 until 1993. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1977 at age 20, for portraying a fictionalized version of herself in The Turning Point.

Biography

She was born in New York, the daughter of dancers Kelly Kingman Brown (1928-1981) and Isabel Mirrow Brown. She has two brothers and one sister; her brother Kevin is a film producer. At the age of seven she began dancing, and would be trained at her father's studio in Arizona, along with her brother Ethan and her sister Elizabeth. She earned a scholarship to study at the School of American Ballet, then joined the distinguished New York City Ballet. She added an "e" to her last name for her stage name considering it more feminine after being mistaken as male in a playbill.