Biography
Born in Paramaribo, Suriname, Leeflang is the daughter of Frank Leeflang, who was also the Minister of Internal affairs and Justice, and the temporary Prime Minister to Suriname. Leeflang moved to Brussels, Belgium at a very young age, where Mr Leeflang was the Ambassador. Leeflang is multilingual, speaking English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Surinamese and Italian.
She has been a singer, model and stage actress for many years until she moved to Los Angeles on a modeling contract where she decided to pursue Television and Film. Leeflang has been professionally trained in drama and comedy by her acting coach Aaron Speiser. Some of her acting credits include Super Spy, Sliders, Baywatch, The X Show, The call of a Siren, The Women of the Tropics and De Vrouw van Jerry (Dutch).
Leeflang has been a recording artist for many years in Europe, where two of her albums went gold. She was also involved in many different projects: a duo with Plastic Bertrand, Black Kiss The Bang Gang, and many more. In 2004, the documentary The Youngest Guns featured her song "This is My Life". Conchita joined the cast of Nederlandse Hollywood Vrouwen as one of the four women in their second season in 8 episodes, after doing an appearance in season one which aired on net5. The remaining cast consist of Princess Inge, Yolanda Foster and Myrthe Mylius.
After a short relationship with Kid Rock lasting a little more than a year, Conchita became a mother of a little girl named London Victoria. With the inspiration of her daughter came a clothing line which Conchita is the CEO off. The line was also inspired by her mother Ursila.
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