Leslie Tripathy

Tripathy is the first child of Dr. Sailendra Narayan Tripathy,^[3] a professor in English and Ashoka Tripathy, a teacher in English literature. Tripathy has a younger brother, Shakespeare King, who is a model turned Actor who generally works in Indian Adult film industry. She is an alumna of BJB College.^[4] She studied journalism from Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. She has written articles and has campaigned in for women's rights^{[citation needed]}. Before entering into the Bollywood industry, Tripathy was active in the Odia film industry, including videos and some films.^{[citation needed]}

Tripathy started her Bollywood career with the 2014 film W, playing the character of Roohi Malik, a rape victim.^[5] She appeared in her first Telugu debut movie Chusinodiki Chusinantha,^[6][7] starring with Sivaji.

Leslie was invited to speak as an ILC Power Brand Speaker on "Countering the attack of Cyberspace trolling, body shaming, stalking, rape & death threat" at the Satya Brahma-founded India Leadership Conclave in Mumbai on 4 August 2017 at Hotel Sahara Star.  ^[8]