Leslie Hope

Leslie Hope is a Canadian actress and director who played Kira Meru in the sixth season episode . She also directed the first season episode .
Along with Andrew Robinson, Larry Dobkin, Richard Compton, Rainn Wilson, and Lea Thompson, she is one of the six non-series regulars who both appeared in and directed Star Trek.
A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and a 1982 graduate of St. Michael's University School in Victoria, British Columbia, she is most recognized for playing Jack Bauer's wife, Teri, in the first season of . In 2003, Hope and her 24 castmates – including Jude Ciccolella, Michelle Forbes, and Penny Johnson – were nominated as Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
Hope was initially aiming to become a lawyer, but turned to acting while attending school in Victoria. When her school was used as a filming location for a comedy called Ups & Downs, Hope won a part in the film. A crew member on the show introduced Hope to Academy Award-nominated filmmaker , who later cast Hope in (1984). guest actor Seymour Cassel was one of the stars of this film.
Later that year, Hope became a regular on NBC's , which aired in early 1985. Although this series was pulled after only eleven episodes, Hope soon won a recurring role as Linda Martin on CBS' . In 1988, she appeared in , featuring Ian Abercrombie, Granville Ames, Steven Berkoff, Peter Dennis, Lawrence Dobkin, Walker Edmiston, Bruce French, Grainger Hines, Paul Lambert, Richard Lineback, Byron Morrow, Glenn Morshower, George Murdock, Charles Napier, John Rhys-Davies, and William Schallert.
Hope's other TV credits include one-time appearances on (1987, with Bruce Davison and Franc Luz), seaQuest DSV (1994, with Rosalind Ingledew and Marco Sanchez), (1994, with Scott Grimes), Vengeance Unlimited (1999, with James Avery, Jennifer Hetrick, Ken Jenkins, Clyde Kusatsu, Raphael Sbarge, and Michael Buchman Silver), (2000, with Brad Blaisdell and Charles Emmett), and the first episode of UPN's (2000, with Willie Garson and J. Patrick McCormack). Other guest spots include episodes of (starring Jennifer Morrison), (with Gregg Henry and Rick Worthy), and (with Michael Welch). 
In addition, Hope appeared in two episodes of (1998 and 1999, starring Jayne Brook, with Ellen Bry, Boris Krutonog, and Gail Strickland) and in a two-parter on CBS' (with Jonathan Banks, Roger Aaron Brown, Cliff DeYoung, and Richard Fancy). She was also a regular on , which aired in January 2001. She later starred in the 2003-04 series Line of Fire and had a recurring role on Everwood in 2006, working with Stephanie Niznik. She also recurred on as Attorney General Melanie Blackston, co-starring Ronny Cox, Elizabeth Dennehy, Eric Pierpoint, and Tony Plana. She also starred in , and had a recurring role as Kristina Frye on .
Hope has starred in a number of television projects for the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company), including (2004). More recently, she co-starred with James T. Kirk actor William Shatner in CBC's (2008).
Aside from her many television projects, Hope has starred in several feature films. Some of her more notable film work include (1988, co-starring Bill Bolender), (1988, with Zach Grenier), (1990, with Geoffrey Blake and John Putch), (1993, co-starring Dennis Christopher, Sally Kellerman, Scott Lawrence, Dan Shor, and Sean Whalen), and Sweet Killing (co-starring F. Murray Abraham). She also played the lead role in (1993).
Hope co-starred with John de Lancie, John Glover, and George D. Wallace in the direct-to-video thriller Schemes. Her more recent film credits include (1998, with Tony Todd), 1999's Water Damage (with John Neville and Dean Stockwell), (2000, with Peter Mensah), (2002, starring Joe Morton and Kathy Bates, with Susanna Thompson, Casey Biggs, Heidi Swedberg, Samantha Smith and Gillian Vigman
, (2008), and (2009, with Tzi Ma).
Hope guest starred in The Strain and appeared in (2015, with Doug Jones). She appeared in a season nine episode of "Murdoch Mysteries" (as did William Shatner, though not the same episode). She also played SECNAV Sarah Porter on and . Hope also directed three episodes from the second and third seasons of Netflix' .
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