Leslie Cockburn is an American investigative journalist, and filmmaker.
15 Facts About Leslie Cockburn
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Leslie Cockburn was born in San Mateo, California and raised in Hillsborough, California.
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Leslie Cockburn is the daughter of Jeanne and Christopher Rudolph Redlich, a shipping magnate.
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Leslie Cockburn grew up in a family of hunters and supports gun control.
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Leslie Cockburn then studied at Yale University, entering in the second year that women undergraduates were admitted to the university.
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Leslie Cockburn went on to earn a master's degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
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Leslie Cockburn is a former investigative journalist for NBC, CBS, and PBS Frontline.
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In 1987, Leslie Cockburn began producing and reporting documentaries for PBS Frontline in collaboration with her husband, Andrew Leslie Cockburn.
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In 1990, Leslie Cockburn produced and co-wrote "From the Killing Fields" with Peter Jennings and Tom Yellin for the ABC News documentary show Peter Jennings Reporting.
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In 1997, Leslie Cockburn conceived and co-produced The Peacemaker, starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman, a thriller positing a terrorist attack on New York City with a stolen nuclear weapon.
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In 1998, Leslie Cockburn served as Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.
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In 2009, Leslie Cockburn directed and co-produced her first feature documentary for theatrical release, American Casino.
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Leslie Cockburn's work has received multiple Emmy nominations, and her 1998 documentary Yuri The Great won an Emmy Award in 1999.
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Leslie Cockburn was the 2018 Democratic nominee for Virginia's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
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Leslie Cockburn announced her candidacy in July 2017, and secured a large majority of delegates over several rival candidates for the nomination in May 2018 at the district Democratic convention to succeed the outgoing Republican representative, Tom Garrett.