Leesa Rowland
The filmmaker in the crowd.
An actress and producer from New York. She went to film other people's sightings, and on her first night she saw the lights herself.
Press and interviews
Biography
Actress, producer, author and animal advocate.
Leesa Rowland built a cult following as Victoria in Troma's Class of Nuke 'Em High films, Part II (1991) and Part III (1994). Her television roles include Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Conviction.
She studied broadcast journalism at Texas Tech and trained as an actress at the Stella Adler Studio. She lives between New York, Palm Beach and the Hamptons.
She is the author of The Charisma Factor and Discovering the It Factor Within You. In 2013 she founded Animal Ashram, an animal-welfare nonprofit. On this documentary she is the producer.
In her words
"The lights seemed to dance across the sky in a way I had never seen before."
Follow and read
Leesa online, and in the press.
- New York Wire Leesa describes the UFO sighting she saw in the mountains of Argentina.
- Grazia British "From Hollywood to the Unknown": her documentary on Argentina's unexplained phenomena, August 2026.
- Entertainment Monthly News The television and documentary projects she writes and produces.
- Hollywood Fashion Cover feature: her life across New York, Palm Beach and the Hamptons.
- New York Weekly On producing, and life between New York and the Hamptons.
- Instagram @realleesarowland
- IMDb Leesa Rowland
- Official site leesarowland.net
- The Charisma Factor Her book, at Penguin Random House.