If you are nominated for the Academic Award, for Emmy, and for a couple of Golden Globe awards and you didn’t win any, then it might be bad luck or just what it is. And you would feel bad about these and toy with the idea of hurling something. But if you are Lesley Ann Warren, then this cannot define you. And from what we know of her (and there are a lot we know), this did not. Here are all the facts you need to know about the Desperate Housewives star.
Lesley Ann Warren – age
Lesley Ann Warren was born in August 1946. She was born in New York City. She was born to a night club singer mother and a real estate father. She is of Russian-Jewish heritage. Yes, Warren sounds American and all but that was how they styled it – the original name was Warrenoff.
Lesley Ann Warren is 73 years old.
When her mother got married to her father, she gave up her career to raise her kids and take care of her family. It must have been her mother who instilled in little Lesley the love of show business. ANd her parents encouraged her. They enrolled her and she studied in Professional Children’s School and The High School of Music & Art.
Career
Lesley Ann Warren began her career as a ballet dancer in High School. Done with school, Lesley Ann began to act on Broadway plays. And she was good in what she does – in fact, her first role was in the “110 in the Shade” in which she won the award of The Most Promising Newcomer. She went on to act in a couple more Broadway appearances before heading to Los Angeles. There was a stint in singing for Ms. Warren somewhere in the mix.
Her first role wasn’t just a passing role like a hostess or a maid. She played Cinderella in the musical film of the same title.
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Between 2001 and 2006, she was part of the sitcom series “Will & Grace” on NBC in which she played a recurring role. Just before the end of her part of this series, in 2005 and up to 2011, she played a recurring role in “Desperate Housewives” that comedy series on ABC in which she played the role of Sophie Bremmer a neurotic fellow described as “a drama queen who tends to exaggerate” with an obsession for remaining a youth. Another of her popular TV appearance is her main role in “A Plain Sight” in USA Network.
On the film aspect, she was in “Victor/Victoria” in 1982 for which she got nominated for an Oscar for her supporting role. In all, she had a long list of film credits, but they were not all well received like “Victor/Victoria”. In fact, in 1994, she was part of the erotic “Color of Night” which earned her the nomination for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress.
Lesley Ann Warren’s husband
Lesley Ann Warren has been married twice. The first time she was married to Jon Peters, the hairdresser who became a producer and made dozens of films. Peters was married to Lesley from 1967 to 1974. The union was/is blessed with a son they named Christopher. You should know, Peters, if not for his film credits then for being sued by his former assistant for sexual harassment in the set of “Superman Returns”. The jury sided with the plaintiff in the 2011 case and ordered Peters to pay her 3.3 million dollars.
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Her second marriage is the man she is still married to today. His name is Ronald Taft. The two got married in the year 2000. This union has no children. Before Taft, Warren has had high profile dates with some of the big names in the industry including the producer and actor Robert Evans and the guitarist, singer and songwriter Paul Stanley.
