Chyler Leigh

About

Chyler Leigh West (pronounced KY-lər; née Potts; born April 10, 1982) is an American actress, singer, and model. She is best known for her roles as Janey Briggs in the comedy Not Another Teen Movie (2001), Dr. Lexie Grey in the ABC medical drama series Grey’s Anatomy (2007–2012; 2021), Alex Danvers in the DC Comics superhero series Supergirl (2015–2021), and Katherine “Kat” Landry in the Hallmark drama The Way Home (2023–2026).

Leigh was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on April 10, 1982, to Yvonne Norton and Robert Potts. She grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where her parents ran a weight-loss business. 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, moved to Miami, where her mother remarried her first husband. Leigh was estranged from her father for many years after her parents’ divorce, but they have since reconciled.
Leigh was in eighth grade when she started modeling. She acted in local television commercials and Hall Pass, a syndicated teen news show. In 1999, Leigh and her mother moved to Los Angeles to be in acting. At 16, she passed…