Beyond the Gates Performer of the Week: Trisha Mann-Grant as Leslie

In the world of Beyond the Gates, Trisha Mann-Grant’s Leslie has been a constant source of entertainment for the audience just as much as for her peers as she schemes her way through life and vows vengeance on Ted Richardson (Maurice Johnson). Although Leslie has already done pretty terrible things to countless characters on the show, this week, she's outdone herself. She has re-injured poor Laura (Destiny Love), causing her irreparable damage and making her have to stay in the hospital even longer, thereby securing Eva’s job as her replacement for longer now, as well.

Trisha Mann-Grant on Beyond the Gates

Trisha Mann-Grant’s ability to take Leslie’s personality and split it into several different aliases while still giving Leslie her own unique (insane) personality is commendable, for certain. When we were first introduced to Leslie, we had no reason to believe that she would run someone off the road just to ensure her daughter got a job so she could sabotage the family of the man who is her daughter's alleged father. But we were quite quickly clued into the fact that she was, indeed, someone who could — and did — do those things.

Trisha Mann-Grant is able to make Leslie be innocent and sweet one minute, and, in the next, she's on a hospital roof pretending like she'll jump, all to get the attention of Nicole (Daphnee Duplaix). Leslie's personal vendetta against the family, or rather, Ted, is somewhat understandable. Week after week, we watch Leslie put on a new personality and wig, and she's at it again — anything she has to do to take Ted down and to make him pay for hurting her.

Trisha Mann-Grant’s physicality as Leslie and her ability to appear as non-threatening is by far how she’s able to pull all of these things off, because, who would believe that she would run Laura off the road? Or, capable of putting on yet another disguise, sneaking into the hospital and then injecting Laura with potassium? These things, of course, don’t seem like a big deal to Leslie, and she does them without so much as a blink of her eye.

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Leslie has also been lying to Ted for years about aborting the child they conceived together years ago during their affair, yet, anytime she talks to him, she pretends that she went through with the abortion. Ted clearly doesn’t understand the depths of Leslie’s maniacal ways and is forced to believe her since she has, presumably, hidden any trace of Eva so no one could tell that she exists. Trisha Mann-Grant gives the audience a glimpse into a new layer of Leslie each week, always leaving us wanting more.

Watch Trisha Mann-Grant on Beyond the Gates, weekdays on CBS or stream live or on-demand on Paramount Plus.

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