LESLI KAY AS MOLLY CONLAN
Lesli Kay
joined the cast of As the World Turns on March 1, 1997 as Molly Conlan,
Holden Snyder's (JON HENSLEY) former girlfriend with whom he unknowingly shared
a child. She was nominated for the Favorite Scene Stealer Soap Opera Award in
1999.
Lesli grew up
in Charleston, West Virginia. She began modeling in New York when she was 15,
worked at MTV and later attended Colorado State University, where she earned a
BA in theater and speech communications.
Lesli was
seen in leading roles in the films Charades, Guarded Secrets, and Forbidden
Games. Her primetime/ television credits include High Tide, Women
Series, Nowhere Man, True Blue, Hunter, Secret Service, Counterstrike, and The
Big Easy. She also appeared on the daytime dramas Ryan's Hope, One Life
to Live, and Loving.
On stage,
Lesli appeared in regional theater productions of Grease, Romeo and Juliet,
and My Sister in this House. She was also in Pushkin: One Woman Show,
A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Children's Hour, Flowers for Algernon, and A
Chorus Line, all at Colorado University, as well as The Art of
Self-Defense at Carnegie Mellon University.
In her spare
time, she enjoys working out and rollerblading, but her favorite hobby is
watching sports on TV. She is currently working on a book entitled Suicide
from the Inside Out about her personal experiences with bulimia. She lives
in New York. She and former ATWT co-star Keith Colouris (ex-David) share a son,
Jackson William Coulouris (b. 2/22/00). Her birthday is June 13.