Helen Leslie (born Helen Riesing and sometimes known as Gracia Jaccard) was an American actress active in Hollywood during the silent era. She was briefly married to writer/director Jacques Jaccard.[1]

Helen Leslie
Helen Leslie in 1916
Born	Helen Gracia Riesing May 20, 1897 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Other names	Helen Riesing Gracia Jaccard Helen Gracia Jaccard
Occupation	Actress
Spouse	Jacques Jaccard ​ ​ (m. 1915; div. 1924)​

Biography

Helen was born on May 20, 1897, in Indianapolis, Indiana, to William Riesling and Frederika Childs.[2]

She was 18 years old and continuing a career as an actress at Universal when she married writer/director Jacques Jaccard, 28 years old.[3][4][5] After her marriage, she gave up acting and her promising career. The marriage was tumultuous and did not last. After her divorce, [6][7][8] she dropped out of public life.

In 1930, she was running the La Granada Apartments in Los Angeles's Koreatown neighborhood.[6]

Selected filmography

• Stepping Out (1917)
• Society's Hypocrites (1916)
• The Gold Band (1916)
• Ashes of Remembrance (1916)
• If My Country Should Call (1916)
• From the Rogue's Gallery (1916)
• The Code of the Mounted (1916)
• A Thousand Dollars a Week (1916)
• The Sody Clerk (1916)
• Timothy Dobbs, That's Me (1916)
• Son o' the Stars (1916)
• A Life at Stake (1915)
• A Kentucky Idyll (1915)
• The Shriek in the Night (1915)
• The Weird Nemesis (1915)
• From the Shadows (1915)
• Fate's Alibi (1915)
• The Toll of Youth (1915)
• The Little Girl of the Attic (1915)
• The Prophet of the Hills (1915)
• Nature's Triumph (1915)
• When the Spider Tore Loose (1915)
• His Last Trick (1915)
• The Bay of Seven Isles (1915)
• To Redeem an Oath (1915)
• Martin Lowe, Financier (1915)
• The Temptation of Edwin Swayne (1915)
• Pawns of Fate (1915)
• The Big Sister's Christmas (1914)
• The Widow's Last (1914)
• The Link That Binds (1914)

References