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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.

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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.

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She lives in the Los Angeles area, where she has been based since the early 1990s and where her husband Judd Apatow runs Apatow Productions. She was born in San Francisco and grew up in Newport Beach, Orange County, before moving to LA to work. She has never published a precise address and the family keeps its home out of interviews, so anything more specific than "Los Angeles" is tabloid guesswork. Source: Wikipedia.

She is American. She was born in San Francisco, California, on March 26, 1972, and holds US citizenship. Her mother is of Irish descent and her father of German descent, a detail she has mentioned in interviews, but she has no second passport that has ever been reported. Source: Wikipedia.

Leslie Mann is 54 years old. She was born on March 26, 1972, so she turns 55 in March 2027. She was 24 when *The Cable Guy* gave her a first real film role in 1996, 33 for *The 40-Year-Old Virgin*, and 40 when *This Is 40* built an entire film around a character her exact age. Source: Wikipedia.

She is commonly listed at around 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in), though the figure is disputed. Celebrity databases range from 1.65 m to 1.69 m, and height-tracking forums argue she looks closer to 5 ft 5 in next to co-stars of known height. No studio has ever published an official measurement, so treat any number as an estimate. Source: CelebHeights.

Spa Weekend, released in US theaters on August 21, 2026. She plays Jane, one of four lifelong friends whose luxury spa retreat goes off the rails when an unexpected guest turns up. The cast is Isla Fisher, Anna Faris and Michelle Buteau, and the film is written and directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, the pair behind *The Hangover* screenplay. It is rated R for language, sexual material and some drug use. Sources: Wikipedia, The Hollywood Reporter.

In Queensland, Australia, with principal photography starting on February 14, 2025. The cast has since talked about riding out a cyclone during the shoot, which is the kind of thing that either destroys a production or bonds it. Mann, Fisher and Buteau have all said the on-screen friendship is real. Sources: Wikipedia, TODAY, Collider.

Yes. She married director and producer Judd Apatow on June 9, 1997, after meeting him during auditions for *The Cable Guy*. It is one of the longer marriages in Hollywood, and on an August 20, 2026 episode of the podcast *Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce* she gave the least glamorous version of why it lasted: "just accepting how hard it is and not trying to fool yourself." Sources: Wikipedia, TODAY.

Maude Apatow (born 1997) and Iris Apatow (born 2002). Both grew up on their parents' film sets, playing versions of Mann's daughters in *Knocked Up*, *Funny People* and *This Is 40*. Maude went on to *Euphoria* and then behind the camera: her directorial debut Poetic License stars her mother as a soon-to-be empty nester who audits a college poetry class. Sources: Wikipedia, Variety.

It is Maude Apatow's directorial debut, with Leslie Mann in the lead alongside Cooper Hoffman and Andrew Barth Feldman. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2025 to strong reviews, then lost its original distributor when Row K Entertainment collapsed. Sony Pictures Classics picked it up and is rolling it out in 2027. Sources: Variety, IndieWire, The Hollywood Reporter.

The Apatow comedies, mostly. The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) as the drunk driver, Knocked Up (2007) as Debbie, Funny People (2009), and This Is 40 (2012), which promoted Debbie to lead. Outside that orbit: The Cable Guy (1996), George of the Jungle (1997), 17 Again (2009), The Bling Ring (2013), The Other Woman (2014) opposite Cameron Diaz, and Blockers (2018). She also voices Nico in *Rio* and Sandra in *ParaNorman*. Source: Wikipedia.

At the audition for The Cable Guy in 1995, which Apatow produced. He has told the story repeatedly in interviews and built large parts of *Knocked Up* and *This Is 40* out of their actual marriage, to the point where the couple in *This Is 40* is played by Mann and Paul Rudd but written from Apatow's own domestic arguments. They married in 1997. Source: Wikipedia.

There is no verified individual figure. Celebrity-finance sites publish a combined 160 million dollars for Mann and Judd Apatow, but that number is modelled from public salary reports and box-office estimates, not disclosed, and covers Apatow Productions rather than her acting income alone. Neither of them has ever commented on it. Source: Celebrity Net Worth (estimate).

She trained as one. She studied improv at The Groundlings, the Los Angeles school that produced Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy, and started out in television commercials at 18. Her reputation among directors is for improvisation: several of her best-known scenes, including the nightclub bouncer exchange in *Knocked Up*, were built in the room rather than scripted. Source: Wikipedia.

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