According to IMDb, Leake died in Florida. The cause of death was progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare neurodegenerative brain disease. The artist has been fighting the disease for seven years.
Jennifer Mary Leake was born in 1947 in Cardiff. She has starred since the mid-1960s in: “Guiding Light,” “Underworld,” “The Iron Side,” “Eye of the Cat,” “Nero Wolfe,” “Incubus,” “The Last Flight,” “One Life.” to Live”.
She was married to actor Tim Matheson; Their romance began on the set of the 1968 comedy “Yours, Mine, Ours.” Three years later the couple separated.