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Leslie Charleson (born February 22, 1945) is an American actress most famous for her work in daytime television. Charleson was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Her career began on short-lived soap A Flame in the Wind in 1964. She then moved to As the World Turns as Alice Whipple, but when she learned of the length of the contract she was supposed to sign, she left almost immediately. In 1967, she was an original cast member of Love is a Many Splendored Thing. She played Iris Donnelly Garrison and was a part of a highly popular love triangle with David Birney and Donna Mills. She left the... MORE

Leslie Charleson (born February 22, 1945) is an American actress most famous for her work in daytime television. Charleson was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Her career began on short-lived soap A Flame in the Wind in 1964. She then moved to As the World Turns as Alice Whipple, but when she learned of the length of the contract she was supposed to sign, she left almost immediately. In 1967, she was an original cast member of Love is a Many Splendored Thing. She played Iris Donnelly Garrison and was a part of a highly popular love triangle with David Birney and Donna Mills. She left the show in 1970 after the departure of Mr. Birney, whom she was involved with at the time. In the 1970s, Leslie gave Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard) his first kiss in an episode of Happy Days. The next seven years brought guest-starring roles in several primetime series. In 1976, she appeared in the pilot for the Quinn Martin TV crime show Most Wanted, but neither she nor costar Tom Selleck were kept on for the series proper. In 1977, Fred Silverman, then head of President of ABC, asked her to join the serial General Hospital, which by that time was near the bottom of the ratings and near cancellation. LESS