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Leslie Mann is a 54-year-old American actress based in Los Angeles, known for The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, This Is 40 and Blockers. She married director Judd Apatow in 1997 and has two daughters with him, Maude and Iris. She is back in theaters as Jane in the comedy Spa Weekend, released August 21, 2026 alongside Isla Fisher, Anna Faris and Michelle Buteau.
Leslie Mann has spent thirty years being the funniest person in films that were not sold on her name. She was the drunk driver who nearly killed Steve Carell in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, the sister who could not get into a nightclub in Knocked Up, and finally the lead of This Is 40, a film her husband wrote about their own marriage and handed to her at exactly the age of its title.
Born in San Francisco on March 26, 1972 and raised in Newport Beach, she moved into commercials at 18, trained at The Groundlings, and got her first substantial film role in The Cable Guy in 1996. That audition is also where she met Judd Apatow, who was producing. They married on June 9, 1997 and have two daughters, Maude and Iris, both of whom grew up playing versions of themselves in their father’s films.
At 54, she is in an unusually busy stretch. Spa Weekend, released on August 21, 2026, puts her opposite Isla Fisher, Anna Faris and Michelle Buteau as four friends whose wellness retreat collapses into chaos. It was shot in Queensland, Australia, where the cast rode out a cyclone, and was written and directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Waiting behind it is Poetic License, Maude Apatow’s directorial debut, in which Mann plays an empty nester who starts auditing a college poetry class. It premiered at TIFF in 2025, survived the collapse of its first distributor, and now goes out through Sony Pictures Classics in 2027.
The public version of her marriage stays refreshingly unromantic. Asked in August 2026 how it has lasted since 1997, she said the trick is accepting how hard it is and not trying to fool yourself, which is roughly the same joke This Is 40 spent two hours making. Sources: Wikipedia, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, IndieWire, TODAY, Collider.