Actress. She is best remembered for her portrayal of the vivacious masseuse Lottie Davenport in "Cold Turkey" (1971). Born into a prominent theatrical family, she was the first of two children born unto stage actor Russell LeRoy and actress Loletta LeRoy. Upon moving with her parents to New York City, New York, during the early 1930s, she gained attention having been a gifted prodigy of her parent's dance studio while attending the Professional Children's School. After becoming a headliner on the Broadway stage appearing in such productions as "Artists and Models", "West Side Story," "Hello, Dolly!," and "This Was Burlesque", she was introduced to director William Friedkin while attending a dinner party at the prestigious Russian Tea Room. Impressed by her blonde good looks, hourglass figure, and soft-spoken voice, he arranged for her to begin a career in the film industry beginning with her appearing under his supervision per a leading role in "The Night They Raided Minsky's" (1968). From there, she would go on to flourish as a recognizable character actress appearing in over 100 features; often typecast as wives, mothers, grandmothers, old maids, dowagers, matrons, aristocrats, femme fatales, floozies, exotics, southern belles, debutantes, gold-diggers, nurses, secretaries, beauticians, manicurists, housekeepers, waitresses, retail clerks, reporters, landladies, neighbors, curmudgeons, eccentrics, women with a past, torch singers, exotic dancers, clergywomen, snobs, busybodies, wealthy widows, authority figures, and matriarchs. She appeared in such feature films as "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" (1971), "Welcome to Arrow Beach" (1974), "The Day of the Locust" (1975), "Bloodbrothers" (1978), "Cheaper to Keep Her" (1980), "Tricks of the Trade" (1980), "Pennies from Heaven" (1981), "Honky Tonk Freeway" (1981), "Sid and Nancy" (1986), "Stewardess School" (1986), "Barfly" (1987), "Cool Blue" (1990), "Final Embrace" (1992), "Body Waves" (1992), "Snapdragon" (1993), "Bad Blood" (1994), "Going Home" (1996), "Jack" (1997), "Sparkley" (1997), "Pumpkin Hill" (1999), "The Clock" (1999), "Sordid Lives" (2000), "Face the Music" (2000), "All You Need" (2001), "Shotgun" (2003), "The Amateurs" (2005), "Quit" (2010), and "Out" (2014). On television, she appeared in various guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "All in the Family," "Gunsmoke," "The Blue Knight," "Cannon," "Mannix," "The Streets of San Francisco," "Hot L Baltimore," "The Bob Crane Show," "Baretta," "Petrocelli," "Alice," "Kaz," "Scruples," "The Ropers," "Three's Company," "WKRP in Cincinatti," "Behind the Screen," "Automan," "Hill Street Blues," "Crazy Like a Fox," "Falcon Crest," "It's a Living," "Hunter," "Days of Our Lives," "The Flash," "Doogie Howser, M.D.," "Viper," "The Larry Sanders Show," "Weird Science," "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman," "ER," "Married...with Children," "3rd Rock from the Sun," "Saved by the Bell: The New Class," "The Young and the Restless," "Chicago Hope," "Diagnosis Murder," "Frasier," "Passions," "Dharma & Greg," "Malcolm in the Middle," "Charmed," "My Wife and Kids," "Desperate Housewives," "Rules of Engagement," "Shameless," "Suburgatory," and "Getting On". During her career, she was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, was a supporter of the California State Democratic Committee, had been a regular parishioner of the Catholic church, was a theatrical instructor for the Pasadena Playhouse, had been among the several founding members of the Canyon Theatre Guild, presided on her local charters of the American Red Cross and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, sat on the board of directors for the women's fashion division of the Bon Ton, had been the celebrity spokeswoman for Playtex and Chanel No. 5, was romantically linked to such notable leading men as Frank Sinatra and Telly Savales, and she was the older sister of the prominent character actor Kenneth LeRoy. Upon her 2015 retirement, LeRoy, who never married nor had any children, spent the remainder of her life living comfortably in the suburbs devoting her time to being a regular attendee at autograph conventions, and was involved in charitable and religious causes until her death.