Biography
Leslie Easterbrook is an American actress. She was adopted at nine months old and raised in Arcadia, Nebraska, by Carl and Helen Easterbrook. She graduated from Kearney High School and Stephens College; her adoptive father was a music professor and her mother an English teacher at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
Easterbrook gained early recognition as Rhonda Lee on the television series Laverne & Shirley from 1980. She is best known for playing Sgt./Lt./Capt. Debbie Callahan in the Police Academy film series, beginning with Police Academy (1984) and continuing through several sequels. In 2005 she replaced Karen Black as Mother Firefly in The Devil's Rejects.
Her other credits include appearances in Halloween (2007), numerous television guest roles such as Murder, She Wrote, Baywatch and Matlock, and voice work. She was married to screenwriter Dan Wilcox until his death in 2024.
