Leak later moved to Los Angeles, and within a few months, she was cast as Lucille Ball's daughter in the 1968 feature Yours, Mine and Ours.
Leak played the role of Olive Springer Gordon Randolph in the soap opera Another World (1976–1979), and Blanche Bouvier in Guiding Light (1981–82).
In addition, Leak created the role of Gwen Sherman, who started out as a prostitute who fell in love with Greg Foster and ended up becoming a nun in the mid-1970s on the CBS program The Young and the Restless.
[2] Leak also played guest spots on various television shows, including McMillan and Wife and Hawaii Five-O.
Leak died in Jupiter, Florida on March 18, 2024, at the age of 76, after suffering with progressive supranuclear palsy for seven years.