Leslie Hope recently starred in the feature film GET SOME with Djimon Honsou and opposite Tom Selleck in the CBS M.O.W. JESSE STONE: THIN ICE. She is perhaps best known to television audiences as Kiefer Sutherland's ill-fated wife on the first season of FOX's groundbreaking drama "24." She was also recently seen on THE MENTALIST, PRIVATE PRACTICE and LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT. Hope recurred on "Commander in Chief" as the Attorney General and as a Feminist Theory professor on EVERWOOD.

Hope, a native of Nova Scotia, got into the acting profession on a lark. Because her father was in the military, the family was frequently moving. At 13, she was attending school in Victoria, British Columbia, hoping she would later make it to Harvard Law School. When she was 15, the family moved to Italy, and Hope stayed at boarding school to finish her pre-university training. But she decided to rebel, announcing her intention to become an actor, not a lawyer. Shortly after, her school was used as a film location, and she was hired to play a part. She met a crew member who knew the famed director John Cassavetes and after an introduction, Cassavetes wrote a starring role for her in his film LOVE STREAMS.

After finishing the film, she stayed in Los Angeles and worked in various capacities on Cassavetes' crew, hoping to learn all about filmmaking. She next starred opposite Matt Dillon in KANSAS, in David Beard's IT TAKES TWO and in Oliver Stone's TALK RADIO. She also starred with Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen in MEN AT WORK.

In 1990, she and Charlie Stratton started their own theatre company, The Wilton Project, which they ran for 10 years. The Wilton Project was dedicated to the development of new plays and a re-examination of the classics and on a personal level for Hope to gain the theatre experience she felt she had missed. While running the company, she produced, directed and acted in several productions, including the award-winning THERESE RAQUIN, SLIDE, and GHOST STORIES. Additional theater credits include EMERALD CITY, TAKING OFF and THE RATTLE OF THE MOON.

Hope's extensive film credits include DRAGONFLY, BRUISER, SWEET KILLING, WATER DAMAGE, SPREADING GROUND, PARIS FRANCE, FUN, TRUE CONFECTIONS and THE LIFE BEFORE THIS.

Her TV credits include the telefilms THE INCREDIBLE MRS. RITCHIE (which reunited Hope with her LOVE STREAMS co-star Gena Rowlands), AN UNEXPECTED LOVE, STOLEN MIRACLE, ROBOCOP, SANCTUARY, H2O, and FIRST DEGREE. She starred as Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in the ABC/Rod Lurie crime drama LINE OF FINE, opposite Donnie Wahlberg in Darren Starr's RUNAWAY and has had recurring roles on THE DISTRICT, and CHICAGO HOPE. She has also appeared on JUDGING AMY and THE OUTER LIMITS and has starred in several CBC miniseries.

In her spare time, Hope travels to exotic locales such as Peru, Laos, Cuba , Iceland, China, Turkey and the Ecuadorian jungle, where she lived with the Hourani tribe in the rainforest. On one of these trips, Hope visited Cambodia where she was drawn to the plight of the homeless children. She returned to shoot a documentary WHAT I SEE WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES for Friends International, an organization which works with these street living children and assists them in their reintegration into mainstream society. Her documentary was selected by over thirty film festivals and won several awards. Hope most recently directed her first movie for television, the romantic comedy A VERY MERRY DAUGHTER OF THE BRIDE for Lifetime Television and Granada. A VERY MERRY DAUGHTER OF THE BRIDE recently debuted to terrific ratings, winning the night for Lifetime.