Leslie Mann

Mann was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in Newport Beach. She was raised "WASPy" by her mother, a real estate agent who had married three times. Mann has stated of her father, "My dad is...I don\'t really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him." She has two siblings and three older step-brothers. Her maternal grandmother, Sadie Viola Heljä Räsänen, was the daughter of Finnish immigrants.\n', ' Mann has said that she was "very shy, kind of pent-up" during her youth. She graduated from Corona del Mar High School, and studied acting at the Joanne Baron / D.W. Brown Acting Studio and alongside comedy improv troupe The Groundlings. She attended college and studied communications, but dropped out before graduating.\n', ' Mann began her career at 18 appearing in a number of television commercials. In 1995, Mann appeared in The Cable Guy (1996), followed with performances in Freaks & Geeks, Sam Weisman\'s George of The Jungle alongside Brendan Fraser, Big Daddy with Adam Sandler, Orange County opposite Jack Black, and The 40-Year-Old Virgin with Steve Carell.\n', '