Alaska Leigh is an award-winning actor, writer, model, and influencer. Born in Australia but currently living in Vancouver, she made her television debut aged three (in a doughnut commercial), she has a lifetime’s worth of stage and screen experience, despite only being in her early twenties. To date, she is best known for playing Bunny in Victoria Gotti: My Father’s Daughter, a Leo Award-winning Lifetime TV movie (also available on Amazon Prime) based on the memoirs of Victoria Gotti, daughter of infamous mob boss John Gotti. In 201, she also played the lead girl in the video for ‘I Knew’, a country song by Canadian teenage singer-songwriter Beamer Wigley.
Leigh was born Sarah-Ashleigh Alaska Wrobel in Brisbane, Australia in 1997. As well as having made her acting debut as a toddler in a Donut King advert, she has been studying ballet and dance since the same age and, before she began training as an actor, was a competitive dancer and singer. Prior to making her major on-screen acting debut, she established herself in the theatre, playing Katalin Hunyak in an Australian national tour of the musical Chicago as well as playing roles in the likes of Rock of Ages and Carrie: The Musical, latter of which saw her nominated for a Gold Palm Theatre Award.
Leigh also works as a model and influencer — she has over 30,000 followers on Instagram. Among her recent acting projects is The Silent Passenger, a 2019 supernatural thriller about a group of friends who perform a fake séance with unintended consequences.