Best known for playing Kiefer Sutherland’s long-suffering wife during the first season of the hit drama “24”, (Fox, 2001- ), Canadian actress Leslie Hope seems on the cusp of finally becoming a star in her own right. A familiar face to American television audiences since the 1990’s, Hope was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and attended St. Michael’s University in British Columbia. Though she had originally studied to become a lawyer, Hope was bitten by the acting bug during her graduate year of college when she won a small role in a movie called “Ups & Downs” (1981), a little-seen Canadian