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Leslie Knope
Parks and Recreation character
Commencement appearance	"Pilot" (2009)
Last appearance	"A Parks and Recreation Special" (2020)
Portrayed by	Amy Poehler
In-universe information
Occupation	President or Start Lady of the United States of America (unsaid) Governor of Indiana Deputy Director of Operations at Usa Department of Interior Regional Director of National Park Service Midwest Region City Councilor for Pawnee, Indiana (sometime) Deputy Director of the Pawnee Urban center Department of Parks and Recreation (former)
Affiliation	Democratic (flavor seven) Independent (during City Council run)
Family unit	Marlene Griggs-Knope (female parent) Robert Knope (begetter, deceased)
Spouse	Ben Wyatt (m. 2013)
Children	Westley Knope-Wyatt (son) Stephen Knope-Wyatt (son) Sonia Knope-Wyatt (girl)
Nationality	American

Leslie Barbara Knope ( NOHP ) is a fictional character, and the main protagonist of the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. She is portrayed by Amy Poehler. For virtually of the show's run, she serves equally Deputy Director of the Parks and Recreation Department of the fictional urban center of Pawnee, Indiana. An over-achiever, Knope believes the government should serve the people and is unceasingly optimistic about the potential of her role within it.

Poehler's performance as Leslie Knope has been nominated for several awards, winning a 2014 Gilded World.^[i]

Background [edit]

Leslie Knope was born on January 18, 1975 (S4: E3) in Eagleton, Indiana due to a raccoon infestation in Pawnee, and has lived in Pawnee, Indiana since infancy. According to the show's timeline, her father died in 1985 (S5: E14). She was inspired to pursue a life of public service by the customs programs she enjoyed every bit a child. While attention Pawnee Due north Loftier School, Leslie served every bit Co-Vice President of the educatee torso and participated in several student organizations including the Model United Nations, Fence Guild, Mock Trial, Young Republicans, Immature Democrats, and the Young Independents, which she founded. She graduated in the top five percent of her high school grade and summa cum laude from Indiana University's School of Public and Ecology Affairs (SPEA).^[2]

In the first three seasons, Leslie is the Deputy in Pawnee'south Parks and Recreation Section, a mid-level bureaucratic position;^[3] in season 4, she successfully campaigns to go a member of the urban center council. In her role as Deputy Director, she serves on several committees, including the Equal Opportunity Committee, the Fun in the Sun Committee, the Clean Restroom Task Force, the Handicapped Restroom Task Force, and the Chore Force to Reduce the Number of Public Restrooms.^[ii] She hopes to improve her town and to advance her career (possibly aiming to become the City Director). She has also stated her ultimate goal of condign the starting time female person President of the Us.^[3] Knope proudly displays in her part images of Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Sandra Twenty-four hour period O'Connor, Joe Biden, Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice, Dianne Feinstein, Janet Reno, Nancy Pelosi, and Larry Bird. Leslie too has a love for sweets, especially waffles (which she oftentimes orders in large quantities at J.J.'due south Diner) and whipped cream, which she puts on coffee, waffles, etc.

On Nov 10, 2016, a fellow member of the Parks and Recreation'due south writing staff wrote an open alphabetic character for Vox from the fictional character Leslie Knope on the ballot results.^[4]

Personality [edit]

Leslie Knope is extremely cheerful, ambitious, difficult-working and optimistic. She is firmly committed to the belief that government should provide a service for its people, and regularly goes above and beyond for the benefits of Pawnee's residents — a conventionalities that regularly clashes with her superior Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman), a staunch libertarian who feels all government should exist dissolved and privatized.^{[5] [6]}

Although somewhat naive,^[seven] Leslie is intelligent, well-read, and has expert intentions,^[eight] only is not always successful in executing her goals.^[half-dozen] She repeatedly tries to put a positive spin on failure, even to the signal where she will occasionally distort the truth in her own view.^[5] For example, she does not get discouraged by aroused residents who complain or yell during her public forums, but instead prefers to think of them as "people caring loudly at me".^[5] Many of her co-workers exercise not share her enthusiasm, but Leslie commands their respect nonetheless.^[5] Her ambition occasionally annoys her colleagues and leads to ribbing against her, especially from her subordinate Tom Haverford (Aziz Ansari).^[7] Her favorite food is waffles from a local diner, JJ's. She has a beat on erstwhile Vice President, at present President Joe Biden, and harbors an irrational hatred of public libraries, salads, and the wealthy neighboring town of Eagleton—which Leslie found out, to her sheer horror, was actually her birthplace.^{[five] [seven]}

Leslie views herself as a budding political star in the style of Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Condoleezza Rice.^[7] She has been widely lauded as a positive effigy for advancing gender equality and feminism because she represents a strong woman who encourages others to empower themselves and support the women around them.^[9] Although she is shown to be running for the city council as an contained, she joins the Democratic Party at some signal, as she is approached by "Janet from the DNC" nigh a potential gubernatorial bid in the last flavour.

Storyline [edit]

Season 1 [edit]

Leslie is initially shown to harbor romantic feelings for her co-worker Mark Brendanawicz (Paul Schneider), likely stemming from a romantic liaison with him several years before. She is also desperate to print her mother, Marlene Griggs-Knope (Pamela Reed), a well-known politician in the Pawnee government. At a public forum, she meets Ann Perkins (Rashida Jones), who informs her about a gaping hole almost her house that her fellow, Andy Dwyer (Chris Pratt), fell into. Leslie takes on the project and quickly becomes friends with Ann. She has a difficult relationship with her female parent, a tough and tactless woman who has had a long and successful career in local government and who does non think much of her daughter's professional or personal choices.

Flavor ii [edit]

Leslie seems to movement on from her romantic interest in Mark and begins dating police force officer Dave Sanderson (Louis C.K.). She also begins taking charge and gains a lot of confidence. Likewise, more of her relationships with her coworkers are shown. Towards the finish of the flavour, Dave, who is enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve, is called into active duty in San Diego, where he does custodial work. Dave asks Leslie to motion with him to San Diego, and although she considers information technology, she ultimately declines because she loves her piece of work and Pawnee as well much to leave, and they function ways amicably. She then dates an old lawyer friend of Ann's named Justin (Justin Theroux). Although Justin seems to be a perfect boyfriend and has many interesting stories, Leslie soon realizes that stories are all Justin cares about. Afterward he reunites Leslie'south female parent with an old flame over Leslie's constant protests, she breaks upwardly with him, realizing that Justin cares more almost the reunion story that he could potentially tell than he does most her. At the end of the season, Leslie and the rest of the department become a visit from two state auditors, Ben Wyatt (Adam Scott) and Chris Traeger (Rob Lowe), who close downwards the government due to Pawnee's crippling financial problems. Leslie and Ben take an antagonistic relationship at first, simply soon develop a mutual respect for each other.

Season 3 [edit]

In this season, Leslie works on the Harvest Festival in hopes of bringing coin to Pawnee. She and Ben are no longer at odds and develop a friendly working relationship, complicated by romantic feelings. All the same, their budding human relationship is threatened past Chris' inter-function dating rules, and they attempt to keep their romance nether wraps, despite telling Ann, Ron, Leslie's mother, and a maintenance worker at the memorial service for Lil' Sebastian, Pawnee's beloved, recently deceased "mini-horse". In the flavour finale, Leslie is approached by a group of people who look for talent in government with the potential for political careers. They tell Leslie that they believe she has the potential to get a fellow member of the city council or fifty-fifty the mayor.

Season four [edit]

Leslie comes to realize that while she is running for the urban center quango, her relationship with Ben cannot continue, and they reluctantly break upwards. Leslie so announces her urban center council candidacy. Leslie writes a book chosen Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America. She also finds out that she was actually born in Eagleton because her female parent said: "the Pawnee hospital had been overrun by raccoons." Leslie and Ben struggle with being broken upwardly; Leslie wants to remain friends with Ben, but he tells her it's just too difficult for him. Leslie finally decides she wants to be with Ben, no matter the consequences, and they get dorsum together. Ben resigns from his position in guild to salvage Leslie from getting fired. Her campaign managers inform her that they can no longer run her campaign considering her approval ratings are dismally depression after the news of her relationship with Ben was revealed. The rest of the Parks employees (and Ann), on a mission to return the love Leslie has shown them over the years, tell Leslie that they will run her campaign for her, assuasive her to proceed going after her dream. Afterwards several tumultuous months, information technology is announced that Bobby Newport (Paul Rudd), son of Sweetums founder Nick Newport (Christopher Murray), has won by 21 votes. Ben later on approaches officials and notifies them that information technology is the law that they re-count since it was so close. Ann then reveals to Leslie that she in fact beat Bobby by 21 votes.

Flavor five [edit]

At the beginning of the season, she and Ben get engaged and move into a firm together. She and Ben get married in the heart of the season, months earlier than the couple had originally planned. They initially accommodate to marry at a black-necktie outcome they planned and executed to raise coin for the future park at Pawnee Commons. Even so, Leslie's City Council nemesis Jeremy Jamm (Jon Glaser) disrupts the ceremony past setting off stink bombs and booing Leslie, leading to Ron punching him in the face up and getting them both arrested. However, the Parks and Recreation Department plans a secret wedding that same night in the office surface area, and Ron walks Leslie down the aisle. During her start year as a urban center councilor, she passes a city-wide soda tax, merges the animal command and parks department, and secures the money for the Pawnee Commons. At the finish of the season, the Sweetums Corporation, a major manufacturer of sugary snacks and Pawnee's biggest employer, begins a campaign to recollect her.

Season six [edit]

Leslie is a key member in the absorption of Eagleton into Pawnee because of a debt problem in Eagleton. Later staging a filibuster which wins the citizens of former Eagleton voting rights, Leslie is recalled and replaced with her Eagletonian counterpart, Ingrid de Forest (Kristen Bell). Leslie gets the lot and parks for the Pawnee Commons later on a heated contend between her and Jamm, in return for five worthless IOU'southward from Chris (who was presently leaving his post equally Metropolis Manager). She dedicates the unofficial groundbreaking of Pawnee Eatables to Ann before she and Chris leave for Michigan in "Ann and Chris". In "Flu Season 2", Leslie discovers that she is pregnant. In "One in 8,000", after a visit to a doctor, Ben and Leslie find out that they are going to accept triplets. Soon after, Leslie is offered a position in the National Park Service, in Chicago. Afterwards stalling on her decision for well-nigh of the season, Leslie is somewhen convinced past Ben to accept the chore, but and so after finding out that the Parks Section had her alleged as one of the new founders of the new town of Pawnee, she convinces her new dominate to relocate their office from Chicago to the Third Floor of Pawnee Urban center Hall. Three years from the end of flavour 6, Leslie and Ben accept three children, and Leslie is the head of the Midwest Parks Service on the bustling third floor of Pawnee City Hall.

Season seven [edit]

Leslie is caput of the Midwest branch of the National Park Service, working to build a National Park in Pawnee. Ron is her main opponent in this effort, as he wants to build a new Gryzzl campus. As the season progresses, however, Ron and Leslie eventually reconcile, and she successfully secures the National Park for Pawnee. Soon afterwards, she and Ben decide to move to Washington with Andy and his wife Apr Ludgate (Aubrey Plaza) after Leslie is offered a promotion to work at the U.S. Department of the Interior and Ben decides to run for Congress. In flash-forwards, it is shown that by the year 2025, Leslie will run a successful campaign for Governor of State of Indiana, and will serve 2 terms in that part. It is implied that either she or Ben has been elected President of the United States by 2048 when they are both flanked by the U.S. Hush-hush Service at the funeral of Pawnee Mayor (and Leslie's former Parks employee) Garry Gergich (Jim O'Heir). In the present, the gang gets together for a picture, as they are unsure when the next time they see each other will be. Ben asks Leslie if she'southward ready, to which she responds, "Yes. I'k ready."

Development [edit]

The concept for Parks and Recreation did not start to form until serial creators Greg Daniels and Michael Schur learned Poehler would be available to play the lead character. Once that casting was determined, the general concept for both the series and the Leslie Knope graphic symbol was established.^[10] Later the beginning flavor, changes were fabricated to Leslie'south graphic symbol to brand her appear more intelligent. Schur said this was in response to critical feedback that Leslie came beyond as "ditzy" during the show's beginning run of episodes, which Schur said was never their intention.^[eleven] Schur said that the bear witness considered a backstory element for Leslie where she had been elected mayor while a teenager; this story was later used for the Ben Wyatt character.

Amy Poehler said by the 3rd season, after the Parks Department has been shut down for three months due to a budget crunch, Leslie has started to face reality more clearly and realize the section is a depression priority.^[12]

Disquisitional reception [edit]

She was listed in AfterEllen.com's Top 50 Favorite Female Television receiver Characters.^[13] In 2015, Entertainment Weekly named Knope every bit one of the 25 Best TV Characters of the By 25 Years.^[14]

Poehler has garnered half-dozen Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, three Golden Globe Honor nominations and three Screen Actors Club Award nominations for Outstanding Performance by a Female person Actor in a Comedy Series for her role. In 2014, while hosting the ceremony, Poehler won the Golden World Honour for Best Actress – Television Serial Musical or Comedy for her portrayal of Leslie Knope.

Season one [edit]

Despite mixed reviews of the showtime flavor, 1 fairly consistent source of praise went to Amy Poehler for her performance every bit Leslie Knope. Tom Shales of the Washington Mail service writes that "Poehler'south show unfortunately isn't worthy of her".^[vii] Daniel Carlson of The Hollywood Reporter too had praise for Poehler challenge that she "has the comic intelligence to carry a series similar this one" and delivers a performance that is "awkward but not alienating" and "eager without being repelling".^[xv] All the same, several commentators said the naive and well-meaning Leslie Knope character too closely resembled The Part protagonist Michael Scott (Steve Carell), a well-intentioned only dimwitted manager of a newspaper company sales office.^{[6] [16] [17] [xviii] [xix] [20]}

Flavour two [edit]

James Poniewozik of Time mag praised the development of the characters. He thought that the show "really has a handle now" on the main character Leslie Knope, and does an "splendid job of finding things for its supporting characters to do". He also opined that the series is "living upwardly to its potential at present".^[21] Commentators said the supporting bandage was now working with better material and that Amy Poehler'due south grapheme had improved and become less over-the-superlative and more homo than in the starting time season.^{[six] [11] [22] [23] [24] [25]}

Season three [edit]

Past season three, Paste magazine writer Garrett Martin called Leslie "1 of the most relatable and admirable women on tv".^[26]

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