he got a job at a restaurant to study actors and comprehend them. He viewed this as the beginning of his training. Hoping to regain both his Arts and Sciences sensibilities he became an actor after theater training in New York. He thought this could be a nice way to learn about himself. It took him two and half years to realize he was an actor, rather than a personality. In New York, Leeshock took training classes in scene study with Wynn Handman, director of The American Place Theater. He also trained in the Meisner technique, in comedy improvisation and in voice. His other activities included waiting tables, doing commercials and performing in theater productions. 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 wrote the screenplay Yo Yo Boy and created characters for stand up comedies in New York and Los Angeles. He lived in L.A. for three years, from 1993 to 1996, where he pursued acting in theatre (at The Complex) and wrote a one-man show. After Beverly Hills 90210, he left L.A. for Mexico where he stayed seven months. It was for the filming of the TV series Empire (the American version of the telenovella Imperio de Cristal), which never aired. Then he returned to L.A. where he started writing a semi-autobiographical one-man show about life experiences. Leeshock's first onscreen acting role was in the daytime drama Loving. He has appeared in over 30 commercials (such as Zegerid OTC and Colace), 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 auditioned in Los Angeles for Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict with Lisa Howard for Jonas McCord (executive producer and writer), then met Paul Gertz (also executive producer writer). They were both pleased with his performance. He joined the cast in the second season (1998) as Liam Kincaid (a human-Kimera hybrid), replacing Kevin Kilner as the lead actor. This is the role for which he is most famous. After two seasons in the series, Leeshock was comfortable in his role but found playing a lead character exhaustive and a huge responsibility. He was released from the series as a business decision to minimize production costs; television