Chyler Leigh Profile, Age, Height, Net worth, Affairs, Biography & More

Chyler Leigh Profile, Age, Height, Net worth, Affairs, Biography & More

Chyler Leigh is an American actress, singer and model. Chyler Leigh is known for portraying Janey Briggs in the comedy film Not Another Teen Movie (2001), Lexie Gray in the ABC medical drama series Grey’s Anatomy (2007–2012), and Alex Danvers in the DC Comics superhero series Supergirl (2015–2021 ).

In 2002, Leigh married fellow actor Nathan West in Alaska. The couple worked together in 2000 on the television series 7th Heaven, playing Mary Camden’s (Jessica Biel) troubled friends Frankie and Johnnie. Leigh and West have three children – a son and two daughters (born 2003, 2006, and 2009.)

Leigh is a Christian and credits her faith and a “really awesome church” with giving her and her husband “a reason to live”. She also supports The Thirst Project, a non-profit organization in America which aims to bring safe drinking water to communities around the world.

In 2019, Leigh revealed that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder a decade earlier.

In mid-2020, Leigh published a statement on the Create Change website, an advocacy website she co-founded, in which she expressed an emotional connection with her Supergirl character’s coming-out scene. Several websites and media outlets, especially those connected with LGBTQ advocacy, interpreted this statement as Leigh’s own coming-out about her sexuality.

Leigh and her family previously lived in Los Angeles, but they now split their time between Vancouver and Nashville.

During mid-2020, Leigh contracted COVID-19 and became ill. Leigh described her experience in an article published to createchange.me on October 14, 2020: