Helen Leslie


Helen Leslie was an American actress who was active in Hollywood during the silent era. She was briefly married to writer/director Jacques Jaccard.

Biography

Helen was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to William Riesling and Frederika Childs. She was still a teenager and beginning a career as an actress at Universal when she married writer/director Jacques Jaccard, who was about 10 years her senior. The marriage was tumultuous and did not last, and it ended Helen's career as an actress. After the couple divorced, she seems to have dropped out of public life; it is unknown what became of her after 1930, when she was running the La Granada Apartments in Los Angeles's Koreatown neighborhood.

Selected filmography