Leslie Ann Hope is a Canadian actress and director, best known for her role as Teri Bauer on the Fox television series 24 and prosecutor Anita Gibbs on Suits.
1965
Hope was born May 6, 1965, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Ann and Frank Hope.
She has one brother named Stephen.
1981
Her first film role was in the Canadian film Ups and Downs, which was filmed in Victoria, in 1981.
1982
She graduated from St. Michael's University School at Victoria, British Columbia in 1982.
In 1982, she worked as a crew member for, and had a bit part in, Love Streams.
1985
On television, in 1985, Hope portrayed Cammie Springer in Berrenger's.
1987
In 1987, she played the role of Madeleine Henry in the TV miniseries War and Remembrance.
1993
In 1993, she starred in Paris, France, directed by Gerard Ciccoritti.
1994
Hope was married to writer and actor Jamie Angell, from 1994 to 1996, with whom she has a son named MacKenzie, and to cinematographer, producer, and director Adam Kane from 2005 to 2015.
Hope has appeared in many Canadian and American films and television series.
1998
Other credits include Shadow Builder (1998), Murdoch Mysteries, The Strain (2015), Lost in Space (2019-2021), Snowpiercer (2021-2022), Devil in Ohio (2022).
In 1998, she played Jenny Hatcher in the Bram Stoker' film Shadow Builder.
2002
In 2002, she landed the role as Teri Bauer in the first season of 24 (2001–02).
Hope starred in George A. Romero's film Bruiser.
On television, she appeared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Kira Nerys' mother Kira Meru and in the Gemini Award-winning series Human Cargo.
2003
In 2003–04, Hope portrayed agent Lisa Cohen on Line of Fire.
2005
In 2005–06, she appeared as Attorney General of the United States Melanie Blackston in four episodes of Commander in Chief, and, in the fall of 2006, played Lily Rader in the CW drama series, Runaway.
2009
In 2009, she played a detective on Seven Deadly Sins, a miniseries on Lifetime.
2014
In 2014, Hope played attorney Joan Luss, a surviving passenger of Regis Airlines Flight 753, on FX's The Strain.
She also has recurring roles in the crime series NCIS, as Secretary of the Navy Sarah Porter.
She was in the legal drama Suits, as prosecutor Anita Gibbs.
She portrayed the role of a psychic medium Kristina Frye in the television crime drama The Mentalist.
