She also appeared with the cast in Marilyn Manson's music video " Tainted Love", a song which appeared in the film. She started hosting in local TV shows and modeling in 2001, Leigh nabbed the lead role in the box-office success Not Another Teen Movie as Janey Briggs opposite Chris Evans. Leigh started acting at an early age and debuted in the film world at age 15 in 1997's Kickboxing Academy. Around that time, she and West also attended a Christian church service, at the invitation of a friend, which helped them in recovery, and the two were subsequently married. This led to abuse of drugs such as cocaine, which quickly escalated into addiction she was told by the director of Not Another Teen Movie that she looked unhealthily thin. Leigh described them as being "broken", both having had troubled family lives and difficult upbringings. They began a relationship, and Leigh left home to move in with West. Drug addiction and recovery Īt age 16, Leigh met her future husband, twenty year old Nathan West, when they both attended auditions for the pilot of an unsuccessful WB series titled Saving Graces. At 16, she took and passed the California High School Proficiency Exam. In 1999, Leigh and her mother relocated to Los Angeles so she could develop her acting career.
She soon began acting by appearing in local television commercials and a syndicated teen news show, Hall Pass. Leigh was in eighth grade when she started modelling. Leigh was estranged from her father for many years following her parents' divorce, but they have since reconciled. The business went bankrupt when she was eight and her parents' marriage ended when she was 12 she, her mother, and her older brother – former actor Christopher Khayman Lee – then moved to Miami, where her mother remarried her first husband. She was raised in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where her parents ran a weight-loss business. Leigh was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on April 10, 1982, to Yvonne Norton and Robert Potts. She is known for portraying Janey Briggs in the comedy film Not Another Teen Movie (2001), Lexie Grey in the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy (2007–2012), and Alex Danvers in the DC Comics superhero series Supergirl (2015–2021). Chyler Leigh West (pronounced / ˈ k aɪ l ər/ KY-lər née Potts born Ap), known professionally as Chyler Leigh, is an American actress, singer and model.