Leeshock is best known in television for portraying the role of Liam Kincaid on the sci-fi drama series Earth: Final Conflict from 1998 to 2001.
In 2005, he joined the cast of the long-running ABC daytime drama One Life to Live as Bruce Bartlett, the business partner of Nash Brennan (played by Forbes March).
In addition to acting, he works as a professional photographer from his studio in New York City and produces projects for both film and television.
In early 2012, he both executive produced and starred in the short film GodMachine, which also features his former Earth: Final Conflict co-star Von Flores.
A native from New Jersey,[1] Leeshock's ethnic background is a mix of Polish, Czech, English, Irish and Italian.
[5] In New York, Leeshock took training classes in scene study with Wynn Handman, director of The American Place Theater.
[10] He performed with several theater companies, including The Complex, West Bank Cafe (where he also created original characters), SoHo Repertory, The (Samuel) Beckett Theatre and The Actors Factory.
He has appeared in over 30 commercials[10] (such as Zegerid OTC and Colace),[11] in the prime time drama series Beverly Hills 90210, in soap operas (including All My Children, Guiding Light, and Another World), in Empire and in the independent film Elysian Fields.
He joined the cast in the second season (1998) as Liam Kincaid (a human-Kimera hybrid),[12] replacing Kevin Kilner as the lead actor.
[3] After two seasons in the series, Leeshock was comfortable in his role[8] but found playing a lead character exhaustive and a huge responsibility.
[5] He was released from the series as a business decision to minimize production costs;[10] television producers pay less tax when they use Canadian actors.
[21] Leeshock joined the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at Cornell University, and through that organization, the Irving Literary Society.