Jennifer Holmes (b. August 23, 1955) is an American television actress. Holmes is best known for her role as Leslie Vanderkellen, a fabulously rich, world-class skier who takes the job of hotel maid to find out what it is like to be normal, on the first season of Newhart. She left the show after the first season and was replaced by Julia Duffy who portrays Leslie's cousin, Stephanie Vanderkellen. In 1985, she starred in Misfits of Science, a short-lived television series about a group of superheroes who fight crime for a scientific think tank. In the 1980s, Holmes was also a guest star on many television shows, including The Rockford Files, Lou Grant, Fame, Webster, The Love Boat, and Murder, She Wrote.