Leslie Ash (born 19 February 1960 in Clapham, London) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Deborah Burton in the BBC sitcom Men Behaving Badly, Vanessa Lytton in the BBC medical drama Holby City from 2009 to 2010 and Karen Buckley in the ITV drama Where the Heart Is from 2000 to 2003. Her book My Life Behaving Badly: The Autobiography was published in 2007.

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Ash is married to former footballer Lee Chapman, and they have two sons. She was formerly in a relationship with actor and comedian Rowan Atkinson, which ended in 1984.

Her sister is former 'Hot Gossip' dancer Debbie Ash, who has a child with former stunt motorcyclist Eddie Kidd. They appeared together as sisters in Rosie Dixon – Night Nurse.

Since 1993, Ash and Chapman have opened a number of successful cocktail bars around London.