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English film, stage, and television actress, comedian and dancer,Jane Leeves has an estimated net worth of $52 million.

She is an attractive English performer who has enjoyed modest success on American TV. Leeves moved to New York at age 21 with $1,000 dollars. After spending a few years as a striving artist she returned to her native England where she worked on "The Benny Hill Show". Leeves returned to America, landing a role in "To Live and Die in L.A." (1985). The following year, she was cast in the syndicated ensemble comedy "Throb". Leeves is probably best known for her recurring roles on "Murphy Brown", as the flighty girlfriend of Miles Silverberg (Grant Shaud) and "Seinfeld", as Marla the Virgin, who passes up Jerry for John F. Kennedy, Jr. in a celebrated episode entitled "The Contest". Leeves next became a regular on the "Cheers" spin-off, "Frasier", as Daphne Moon, the "half-psychic" live-in caretaker of Martin Crane (John Mahoney) and long-standing love interest of the ever-neurotic Niles Crane (David Hyde Pierce), a role she would play throughout the series' entire ten-year run.

In 1996, Leeves reached a new audience by providing the voice of the motherly Ladybug in the animated feature "James and the Giant Peach".

She has been married to Marshall Coben, a CBS Paramount Television executive, since December 21, 1996, and they have two children.

Earnings & Financial Data

Date

Category

Description

Amount

1992

Salary

Per episode salary from Frasier

$367,500