Natural within Ilford, England and growing up inside East Grinstead, Leeves trained as a ballet dancer and worked as a model, until she made her number 1 film appearance inside Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. She was the regular on The Benny Hill Show and appeared in the David Lee Roth music video for the song "California Girls", but struggled for many years to establish herself. She became somewhat seeable when a flighty roomie on the syndicated sitcom Throb!

She experienced the revenant role in the television series Murphy Brown which provided her first period of profits, swimming "Audrey", a aloud & awkward girlfriend of producer, Miles Silverberg (played by Grant Shaud). Leeves when well appeared as a troublesome "Marla" within triplet risqué episodes of Seinfeld - "The Virgin", "The Contest" & "The Finale - Part 2".

Around 1993, she joined the cast of the television series Frasier. Leeves played a beautiful, nonconcentric, recently age & squarely Daphne Moon, and she became the popular actress therein role. Per guide of Frasier, Leeves had received an Emmy Award nomination for her role, and got turn into a greatest paid British actress in Hollywood.

Appearing less oft within cinema, Leeves lent her voice to the animated film James and the Giant Peach (1996) and acted in the film Music of the Heart (1999).

Inside 2004 she hosted an episode of Have I Got News for You.

She has been married to Marshall Coben since December 21, 1996, and it own Two tikes. Her sister, Katie, is as well settled inside southern California.