Career
Leak played the role of Olive Springer Gordon Randolph in the soap opera Another World (1976–1979), and Blanche Bouvier in Guiding Light (1981-1982). In addition, Jennifer created the role of Gwen Sherman, who started out as a prostitute who fell in love with Greg Foster and ended up becoming a nun in the mid-1970s on the Columbia Broadcasting System soap, The Young and the Restless. Jennifer married actor Tim Matheson, having met during the filming of Yours, Mine and Ours.
The marriage lasted only a short time (1968–1971).