Leigh Hennessy

Leigh Hennessy, also known as Leigh Hennessy-Robson, is an American former trampoline gymnast. She was a two-time double mini-trampoline world champion (1976, 1978) and won a silver medal in synchronized trampoline at the World Trampoline Championships. She later became a stunt performer and actress.

Early life and education Leigh Hennessy was born in Lafayette, Louisiana. Her father, Jeff Hennessy, was an expert in the sport of trampolining and was inducted into the ULL and USA Gymnastics Halls of Fame. She started jumping on trampolines at age 3, and her father served as her first coach.

She was nominated for a Taurus World Stunt Award in 2006, 2007 for her work.

In 2008, Hennessy and Mark B. Robson married at the Birse Kirk church in Birse, located in the Scottish Highlands.

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Awards and honors World Acrobatics Society Legends Hall of Fame, 2005 Lifetime achievement award from the International Trampoline Federation, 1982 University of Louisiana Ragin Cajun Athletics Hall of Fame, 2019