Jenny Leonhardt

Jenny Leonhardt was born in Fort Worth, Texas as Jennifer Gilmartin to Patti (Harris), a ballet dancer from Fort Worth, and David Gilmartin, an economist from Tulsa, OK. She has two sibling, an older sister, Alice and a younger brother, Aaron. The family moved when she was six months from Texas to Washington DC where she attended the Washington Waldorf School at Hearst Hall on the Washington Cathedral grounds. They moved to New England when she was twelve, where she attended High Mowing School, an hour outside of Boston. After graduating from Booker School for the Performing Arts she went on to study at California Institute of the Arts and then to London to study Shakespeare and speech with Peter and Barbara Bridgemont at the Chrysalis Theatre. She also attended Bryn Mawr College as part of their Writing Program. Jenny performed at many regional and professional theaters before returning to Los Angeles where she booked numerous roles in national commercials and smaller roles in television and film. She is also a published writer, musician and filmmaker. Her directorial debut, Kitchen Help, was shot in 2003 in Los Angeles and Mexico.