Erica Leerhsen

Erica Leerhsen was born on the 14th February in 1976 in Ossining in New York (on Valentine's Day).
She attended St. Augustine's School and Ossining High School. Then graduated from Boston University College of Fine Arts in 1998.
Erica sang in the choir at Ossining High School.
Erica's first role was as Sarah in the 1999 in the short film called Junior Creative, then landed the lead role of a practicing witch, in the controversial film called Book of Shadows - Blair Witch 2.
Erica has also apeared in tv shows such as CSI: Miami as Brenda Sanders, Ghost Whisperer as Hope Paulson, Alias as Kaya, The Sopranos as Birgit Olafsdottir and in The Guardian as Amanda Bowles.
She also had a supporting role in Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending, and then film roles in Mozart and the Whale as Bronwin, Little Athens as Heather, The Warrior Class as Annie Sullivan, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre as Pepper, and also in the film called Anything Else as Connie.
Erica then turned her attention to the theatre, receiving very good reviews for her role in Woody Allen's play called A Second Hand Memory.
She then got the leading role in Wrong Turn 2 - Dead End as Nina Papas alongside Henry Rollins and Texas Battle, in the highly acclaimed sequel to Wrong Turn. She did a lot of her own stunts.
Other film roles include Lonely Joe as Michele Connelly and in Living Hell as Hazmat specialist Carrie Freeborn.
Erica has also starred in the films Shiver as Wendy Alden, Slaughter as Jenny and in The Message as Anna.
She enjoys running, playing basketball and Yoga, and is very good friends with Emily Deschanel, who plays Temperance Brennan alongside David Boreanaz in Bones. They went to the same college.

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Erica Leerhsen - what members say

Wrong Turn 2 - Dead End review by JediSi from Kent

Say hello to the missus from me 25 May 2008
...ith a plethora of blood and guts and several gripping scenes. Superb work from Erica Leerhsen, but Henry Rollins was extremely over the top, and totally unconvincing. Very w... Read customer review

Erica Leerhsen - filmography

Wrong Turn 2 - Dead End on DVD (2007)
Starring: Erica Leerhsen, Kimberly Caldwell, Henry Rollins
Director: Joe Lynch
Certificate:
Retired military commander Colonel Dale Murphy (Henry Rollins) hosts a simulated post-apocalyptic reality show where participants are challenged to survive a remote West Virginia wasteland. But the show turns into a nightmarish showdown when each realizes they are being hunted by an inbred family ..read more »

55% from 10,218 members

Little Athens on DVD (2005)
Starring: Michelle Horn, John Patrick Amedori, Rachel Miner
Director: Tom Zuber
Certificate:
Featuring a 'Generation-Y' cast of rising young stars, this hard hitting suburban thriller follows a whirlwind day in the hapless lives of small town youth caught in a dead-end, post-high school void. The journeys of four groups of late teens/early twenty-somethings unfold through four different ..read more »

42% from 53 members

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre on DVD (2003)
Starring: Jessica Biel, Johnathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen
Director: Marcus Nispel
Certificate:
It's the summer of 1973 and a facially-deformed killer terrorizes a group of friends... This is the survivor's account of a massacre carried out by a madman and his chainsaw. The police find thirty-three victims in a house in Texas.

60% from 14,444 members

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Blu-ray (2003)
Starring: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen
Director: Marcus Nispel
Certificate:
Directed by well-known commercial and video director Marcus Nispel, and produced by Michael Bay (ARMAGEDDON, PEARL HARBOR), this remake begins in the same place as the original. Five friends are driving through Texas on their way to a concert in Dallas. But when they stop to pick up a hitchhiker, ..read more »

60% from 394 members

Book of Shadows - Blair Witch 2 on DVD (2000)
Starring: Jeffrey Donovan, Kim Director, Erica Leerhsen
Director: Joe Berlinger
Certificate:
BOOK OF SHADOWS: BLAIR WITCH 2 is the sequel to the 1999 thriller THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. The first film's famously effective horror was created in large part with its faux authenticity. Shot on handheld video, the film presented itself as the genuine footage of three students' fatal search for ..read more »

46% from 2,556 members

Erica Leerhsen facts

5 most recent films

Wrong Turn 2 - Dead End - 3.0 stars
Little Athens - 2.0 stars
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 3.0 stars
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Book of Shadows - Blair Witch 2 - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 3.0 stars
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Wrong Turn 2 - Dead End - 3.0 stars
Book of Shadows - Blair Witch 2 - 2.5 stars
Little Athens - 2.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Little Athens - 2.0 stars
Book of Shadows - Blair Witch 2 - 2.5 stars
Wrong Turn 2 - Dead End - 3.0 stars
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Andrew Bryniarski - 2 times - show films
Mike Vogel - 2 times - show films
Eric Balfour - 2 times - show films
Jonathan Tucker - 2 times - show films
Jessica Biel - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Joe Berlinger - 4 times - show films
Marcus Nispel - 2 times - show films
Joe Lynch - 1 times - show films
Tom Zuber - 1 times - show films

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