Leisha Hailey

Leisha Hailey is an American actress and musician who first drew attention as a member of the pop duo the Murmurs, which she started in 1991 with Heather Grody, a fellow student at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Born in Okinawa and raised in Bellevue, Nebraska, she moved to New York City for that training, and the duo released several albums in the 1990s, performed at Lilith Fair and later renamed themselves Gush. Her television debut came in 1996 on Boy Meets World, and her first major film role was in All Over Me (1997). From 2004 to 2009 she played Alice Pieszecki on The L Word and returned to the part in The L Word: Generation Q. She also starred in the thriller Fertile Ground (2011), founded Marfa Records and formed the electropop duo Uh Huh Her.