About Lesli Kay

Lesli Kay was born Lesli Kay Pushkin on June 13.   She grew up in Charleston, West Virginia and at the age of 13, her's was the first individual girl's bas mitzvah to be held in Charleston.  Lesli was a cheerleader while attending George Washington High School.  Her mother, Marsha Pushkin Albert was a sexual abuse therapist and director for the Resolve Family Abuse program at the YWCA in Charleston and her late father, Dr. Jack Pushkin, was the chief of orthopedics for the Charleston Area Medical Center.  She has two brothers, David and Michael.  Lesli's brother, David Pushkin, is a New York artist, who is known in his hometown of Charleston for his work on the stained glass windows at the B'Nai Jacob Synagogue.  Her brother, Michael, still lives in Charleston and is a musician and club owner.

Lesli Kay began modeling in New York at the age of 15.  Later, at age 18, she took a behind the scenes job at MTV.  While working at MTV, she had the opportunity to meet some of the popular rock stars of the day and rub shoulders with the veejay pioneers.  This has got to be every teenagers fantasy!  Lesli later attended Colorado State University where she earned a BA in theater and speech communications.  While attending college she performed in many regional theater productions including Grease, Romeo and Juliet, My Sister in This House, Pushkin: A One Woman Show, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Children's Hour, Flowers for Algernon, A Chorus Line and The Art of Self Defense.

In December 1991, Lesli appeared as a contestant on the top-rated TV game show Wheel of Fortune, bringing home an impressive $22,000.

Lesli has had leading roles in the films The Other Sister (1999), Guarded Secrets (1997), Charades (1996), Forbidden Games (1996), Petticoat Planet (1996), Forbidden Passions (1995) and Carpool Guy (2005).  Her primetime television credits include High Tide, Women Series, Nowhere Man, True Blue, Hunter, Secret Service, Counterstrike, The Big Easy and Law & Order (2003).  She has also appeared on the daytime soap operas Ryan's Hope, One Life to Live, Loving, As the World Turns and General Hospital.

Lesli Kay joined the cast of As the World Turns on March 1, 1997 as Molly Conlan. This role earned her Soap Opera Weekly's Outstanding Performer of the week for January 25, 1999 (with co-star Scott DeFreitas), a Soap Opera Digest nomination for Favorite Scene Stealer for the year 1999 and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress at the 28th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in 2001 (click the Emmy for more information).

In June 2004, Lesli exited her role as Molly on ATWT and joined the cast of General Hospital, recreating the role of Lois Cerullo. When the role of Lois was written off the show, Lesli took a brief hiatus then was right back on daytime, joining The Bold and The Beautiful as rebellious Felicia Forrester in November 2005.