Kendall Leary is a bicoastal actress and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She can be seen as “Nora” in the rom-com Meet Cute in Manhattan on Prime, and as “Julia Roberts” on HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay.

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Theatrically trained, Kendall studied at the summer conservatory “CCY” at Wesleyan University and later at Marymount Manhattan College, with coursework including Voice and Speech, Script Analysis, Shakespeare, Viewpoints, and Suzuki Method. She also spent a semester in Rome studying International Journalism alongside Commedia dell’arte and character development.

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She continues training with the “BK Gang” at Bob Krakower's Studio in Manhattan and in Ann Hamilton’s “Acting for the Camera” classes.

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A graduate of New Haven’s Cooperative Arts and Humanities, Kendall was awarded “Best Actress” and crowned Miss Connecticut Teen USA in the same year.

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Outside of acting (and writing about herself in the third person), she plays shortstop in an adult softball league, walks her dog through McCarren Park, and says things like, “Why do the Mets let me down every year?”