Leah Ayres

Acting

Leah Ayres

Born 1957-05-28 · Baltimore, Maryland, USA

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leah Ayres (born May 28, 1957) is an American actress who played Valerie Bryson on the daytime serial, The Edge of Night, in the early 1980s. Ayres is well known for her role in Bloodsport, alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme. Ayres is also known for portraying Marcia Brady (in lieu of Maureen McCormick) in The Bradys, the 1990 dramatic revival of The Brady Bunch. Ayres was born Leah Simpson in Baltimore, Maryland. She is known as Leah Kalish and was the Program Director for Yoga Ed. in Los Angeles. She is also the co-creator of the Yoga Kit for Kids and Games for Life, a book of games and visualizations for children. She also wrote and stars in Living Arts/Gaiam’s Yoga Fitness for Kids videos. She is now the creator of Yoga Playgrounds and developing children's television programs. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leah Ayres, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Bloodsport poster
7.1

An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite.

Bloodsport

1988

All That Jazz poster
7.5

Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.

All That Jazz

1979

The Player poster
7.2

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

The Player

1992

The Burning poster
6.2

A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the caretaker making his way back to his old stomping ground to confront one of the youths that accidentally burned him.

The Burning

1981

Velvet poster
6.7

A female team of government agents, under the guise of owners of a popular worldwide franchise of aerobic centers, matches wits with a group of criminals who have kidnapped a top defense specialist and his ailing son, intending to sell him to the highest bidder.

Velvet

1984

Eddie Macon's Run poster
5.9

Eddie Macon is running from a nightmare... running to a dream... running for his life and his time is running out. He's escaped a Texas prison for the second time (risking life imprisonment if caught) to make it back to his wife and son. Relentlessly pursued by ruthless truant officer, Carl Marzack, who feels he must prove he can still 'get his man' by returning Macon to jail at any cost.

Eddie Macon's Run

1983

Police Story: The Watch Commander poster
9.0

This is the story of policeman who has been on the job for over forty years. And one of his duties is to look out for all of the officers under him cause he is the watch commander. And it seems that a lot of them have a lot of problems including the new lieutenant. And a 15 year veteran who's feeling the stress of the job. And at the same time he is being egged by the captain to retire cause he thinks he's too old. And his wife would like him to retire also.

Police Story: The Watch Commander

1988

Hot Child in the City poster
2.8

When Rachel went to visit her very successful sister in Hollywood, she expected her vacation to be exciting compared to her life in Kansas. She didn't expect her sister's murder.

Hot Child in the City

1987

No artwork available
NR

Two employees of a reclusive millionaire, Micki the secretary and Max the chauffeur, decide to attend a society function to which their employer has been invited. In the course of the evening, Max and Micki establish new identities in the world of high society and, while rubbing shoulders with the elite, they uncover a scam that tests their sleuthing skills as much as their social skills.

We're Puttin' on the Ritz

1986

Dead Ringer poster
6.0

Part fiction, part documentary. Dead Ringer was created as a promotional tie-in to Meat Loaf's album of the same name, which was his follow-up to the hugely successful "Bat Out Of Hell".

Dead Ringer

1981

No artwork available
NR

The further trials and tribulations of the Brady Bunch, with the children all grown up and married and with children. Bobby is now a race car driver. He makes it to the Nashville 500 where he is in a serious car wreck and paralyzed from the waist down. The Bradys rally around Bobby in his efforts to recover.

The Brady 500