Odisha’s leslie Tripathy is one of the leading actresses in Bollywood movie ‘W’ which is directed by Tarun Chopra and slated to release in 2014. Along with W, leslie has a few south films releasing too, one being a Telugu movie costarring with Telugu star Shivaji.
Brought up in Bhubaneswar, leslie is also a poet having to her credit an anthology Because I Am a Girl. She is daughter of educationist parents Dr Sailendra Narayan Tripathy and Ashoka Tripathy. Dr Tripathy is a popular Indian English poet. leslie studied journalism from the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. She has learnt Odishi dance. She is a crusader for women’s empowerment. She worked with N Chandra in his Indo-American documentary A Woman from Georgia.