Sit down to lunch with Leslie Siebert at The Palm in Beverly Hills.
Leslie Siebert is a senior managing partner at the Gersh Agency. Of the agency’s eight full-service departments, the talent division is its largest and prides itself on shepherding the careers of a diverse clientele of established and emerging acting talent.
Her clients include award-winning talents such as 7-time Emmy winner Allison Janney, Jeffrey Tambor, who won the Golden Globe and Emmy this year for playing a transgender woman on Amazon’s hit show “Transparent”, two-time Academy Award nominee Catherine Keener, who recently finished filming the HBO Miniseries “Show Me a Hero” produced by David Simon and directed by Paul Haggis and was recently seen in Nicole Holofcener’s feature, “Enough Said”, Kyle Chandler, the Emmy award winner for “Friday Night Lights” who was seen in Martin Scorsese’s “Wolf of Wall Street” and can currently be seen in the critically acclaimed Netflix series “Bloodline”, Angela Bassett, whose amazing performance on “American Horror Story: Coven” took the town by storm and also garnered her an Emmy nomination, Debra Messing, star of NBC’s smash hit “Mysteries of Laura”, Taylor Schilling, who was nominated for both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her lead role in “Orange is the New Black”, Emmy nominated David Schwimmer, who can next be seen in Ryan Murphy’s “American Crime Story” playing Robert Kardashian, as well as Madeleine Stowe, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Elizabeth Perkins, Archie Panjabi, Julia Ormond, John Corbett, Calista Flockhart, Sela Ward, Eric McCormack, Hilary Duff and Mandy Moore.
The perception and reality of The Gersh Agency has grown over the years from a small, family-owned company to a major force among the top agencies, an evolution that has occurred under Siebert’s 30 years of leadership. Her influence, combined with her intelligence, wit and the favorable relationships she enjoys with her associates in the Hollywood community, has allowed for the cultivation of a significant roster of talent clients agency-wide.
Siebert was born and raised in Los Angeles. She graduated cum laude from UCLA with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications. She is married to personal manager/producer Steven Siebert and has two sons, Jack (19) and Henry (17).