Jennifer Jason Leigh (born Jennifer Leigh Morrow; February 5, 1962) is an American actress and producer. She began her career on television during the 1970s before making her film breakthrough as Stacy Hamilton in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). She later received critical praise for her performances in Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989), Miami Blues (1990), Backdraft (1991), Single White Female (1992), and Short Cuts (1993).
Leigh was nominated for a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Dorothy Parker in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994). She starred in a 1995 film written by her mother, screenwriter Barbara Turner, titled Georgia. In 2001, she co-wrote and co-directed a film with Alan Cumming titled The Anniversary Party. In 2002, Leigh appeared in the neo-noir crime drama film Road to Perdition. In 2007, she starred in the family drama film Margot at the Wedding. She had a recurring role on the Showtime comedy-drama series Weeds as Jill Price-Gray. In 2015, she received critical acclaim for her voice work as Lisa in Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa, and for her role as Daisy Domergue in Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. From 2017 to 2021, she starred in the Netflix comedy-drama series Atypical. Leigh starred in the science-fiction horror films, Annihilation (2018) and Possessor (2020).
For her stage work, Leigh was nominated for a Drama Desk award for her off-Broadway performance as Beverly Moss in Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party. Her Broadway debut occurred in 1998, when she became the replacement for the role of Sally Bowles in the musical Cabaret.
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Jennifer Jason Leigh Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jennifer Jason Leigh |
| Also Know | Jennifer Leigh Morrow, Jennifer Leigh, JJL |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1962-02-05 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 60 |
| Deathday |
Jennifer Jason Leigh Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Kansas City | Blondie O’Hara | 1996-08-16 | Robert Altman’s story – a riff on race, class, and power – cross-cuts between two kidnappings and a background of corrupt politics and virtuoso ja… |
| Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle | Dorothy Parker | 1994-09-07 | Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted w… |
| Washington Square | Catherine Sloper | 1997-10-10 | Set in 1870’s New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must de… |
| Georgia | Sadie Flood | 1995-05-19 | Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer who’s happily married with children, but can’t break out of the bar-band circuit … |
| Girls of the White Orchid | Carol Heath | 1983-11-28 | In Los Angeles, naive and lonely waitress and aspirant singer Carol finds an advertisement for a job opportunity in Tokyo. Traveling to Japan to work … |
| The Prom | Lana | 1992-01-01 | Marty is not comfortable showing his body at college or private. He is suffering from a skin disease called nevus flammeus. In town he stumbles on The… |
| The Moment | Lee | 2013-04-21 | Fearing she may be responsible, a mental patient (Jennifer Jason Leigh) tries to unravel the mystery behind her ex-lover’s (Martin Henderson) disappea… |
| Amityville: The Awakening | Joan Walker | 2017-07-20 | Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her… |
| Heart of Midnight | Carol | 1988-11-10 | A young woman who is getting back on her feet after a mental breakdown, Carol Rivers discovers that her late uncle has left her a rundown nightclub. C… |
| I Think I’m Having A Baby | Laurie Mcintyre | 1981-03-03 | Laurie is 15 and she thinks she’s pregnant. Her boyfriend doesn’t care. Her mother doesn’t know. Why did it happen? And whom can she turn to?… |
| Bastard Out of Carolina | Anney Boatwright | 1996-12-15 | A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her ti… |
| eXistenZ | Allegra Geller | 1999-04-14 | A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been dam… |
| The Machinist | Stevie | 2004-02-09 | Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to … |
| Rush | Kristen Cates | 1991-12-22 | Undercover cop Jim Raynor (Jason Patric) is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates (Jennifer Jason Leigh), is lacking in experience, but he th… |
| The Hudsucker Proxy | Amy Archer | 1994-03-11 | A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam…. |
| Dolores Claiborne | Selena St. George | 1995-03-24 | Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court’s findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk … |
| The Anniversary Party | Sally Nash Therrian | 2001-06-09 | While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, the American actress Sally Nash and the British novelist Joe Therrian receive their … |
| Single White Female | Hedra ‘Hedy’ Carlson | 1992-08-14 | Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boy… |
| Last Exit to Brooklyn | Tralala | 1989-10-11 | A gritty Brooklyn story about union corruption, violence, taboos and social norms. The stories told are of the sailors, the prostitute, the union boss… |
| Flesh + Blood | Agnes | 1985-08-30 | A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble’s son. As the plague … |
| Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Stacy Hamilton | 1982-08-13 | Based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times follows a group of high school students growing up in Southern California. S… |
| Skipped Parts | Lydia Callahan | 2000-06-06 | A woman and her son must leave a small South Carolina town because of her wild behavior…. |
| Margot at the Wedding | Pauline | 2007-11-16 | Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline’s wedding to unemployed … |
| Childstar | Suzanne | 2004-09-10 | An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother…. |
| Miami Blues | Susie Waggoner | 1990-04-20 | When Fred gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. He soon meets up with amiable college s… |
| Buried Alive | Joanna Goodman | 1990-05-09 | A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish… |
| The Quickie | Lisa | 2001-06-04 | A crime soap opera about a Russian mobster retiring from “the business” on New Year’s Eve, only to discover he has been targeted for death by a rival … |
| Thanks of a Grateful Nation | Teri Small | 1998-05-31 | An examination of the aftermath of Desert Storm and how servicemen and women were affected by it medically…. |
| The Love Letter | Elizabeth Whitcomb | 1998-02-01 | 20th century computer games designer Scott exchanges love letters with 19th century poet Elizabeth Whitcomb through an antique desk that can make lett… |
| Eyes of a Stranger | Tracy Harris | 1981-02-11 | A TV newswoman (Lauren Tewes) catches a pervert (John DiSanti) watching her sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who cannot see, hear or speak…. |
| Rag Tale | Mary Josephine ‘MJ’ Morton | 2005-10-07 | A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids…. |
| Under Cover | Tanille Laroux | 1987-12-04 | A cop goes undercover in a South Carolina high school. With the help of a local narcotics officer, he investigates the drug ring responsible for anoth… |
| Sister, Sister | Lucy Bonnard | 1987-09-13 | A congressional aide (Eric Stoltz) explores an old Louisiana mansion two kooky sisters (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judith Ivey) run as a guest house…. |
| The First Time | Bonnie Dillon | 1982-11-08 | An emotionally troubled teenage girl drops out of high school and travels with her boyfriend to San Diego, while the girl’s mother enlists the help of… |
| Jake Squared | Sheryl | 2014-08-15 | A filmmaker sets out to make a new project in order to figure out how he’s screwed up every relationship he’s ever had…. |
| Annihilation | Dr Ventress | 2018-02-22 | A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don’t apply…. |
| Open | Holly | 2014-01-01 | Modern, provocative exploration of human sexuality and relationships…. |
| The Making of ‘Last Exit to Brooklyn’ | 2006-10-02 | A wonderful making of featurette that focuses on the controversial novel that inspired ‘Last Exit to Brooklyn’ as well the production history of the f… | |
| Easter Sunday | Mother | 2005-04-02 | A sensitive 10-year-old girl, Viv, gets an unexpected visit from her disturbed mother. Despite some difficult feelings and emotion and confusion, Viv … |
| Sid & Judy | Judy Garland (voice) | 2019-06-26 | Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entertainer Judy Garland through rare concert footage, n… |
| Picnic | Madge Owens | 1986-11-10 | A southern bell falls for a handsome drifter with no prospects, going against her parents’ wishes to marry a rich businessman…. |
| Anomalisa | Lisa Hesselman (voice) | 2015-12-30 | An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence…. |
| The King Is Alive | Gina | 2000-05-11 | Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by th… |
| In the Cut | Pauline | 2003-10-22 | Following the gruesome murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, a English teacher living in New York City — as if to test the limits of her own … |
| Synecdoche, New York | Maria | 2008-10-24 | A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as … |
| The Hitcher | Nash | 1986-01-17 | On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a … |
| The Best Little Girl in the World | Casey Powell | 1981-05-11 | Casey Powell is a young teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nevosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or… |
| Crossed Over | Karla Faye Tucker | 2002-03-03 | After her son dies in a hit-and-run accident, a woman forms an unusual friendship with a convicted killer awaiting execution…. |
| The Hateful Eight | Daisy Domergue | 2015-12-25 | Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception…. |
| White Boy Rick | Alex Snyder | 2018-09-14 | The story of a teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-t… |
| Possessor Uncut | Girder | 2020-10-02 | Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As… |
| Cinema Cinema | Herself | 1997-01-01 | This is a film about the making of Salaam Cinema by Mohsen Makhmalbaf in Tehran and it’s eventual screening in Cannes Film Festival. Viewers are int… |
| Sharp Stick | Marilyn | 2022-07-29 | Sarah Jo is a naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her mother and sister. When she begins an affair with her older employer, she … |
| The Jacket | Dr. Beth Lorenson | 2005-03-04 | A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he … |
| Greenberg | Beth | 2010-08-18 | A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother’s assistant…. |
| The Big Picture | Lydia Johnson | 1989-09-15 | Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Stu… |
| A Thousand Acres | Caroline Cook | 1997-09-19 | The lives of an Iowa farmer’s three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family’s fertile farm…. |
| Grandview, U.S.A. | Candy Webster | 1984-08-03 | Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to… |
| The Killing of Randy Webster | Amy Wheeler | 1981-03-11 | A young man is shot and killed in an altercation with Houston police. His father doesn’t believe the police version of the incident and starts digging… |
| Me | Kelly | 2014-05-21 | A down and out actress secretly sells a reality show about her friend, a delusional eccentric, a once famous creator of reality shows, who now believe… |
| Hateship Loveship | Chloe | 2013-09-07 | A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl’s pran… |
| Partners in Life | Blossom | 1990-08-31 | During the Great Depression, a bumbling duo travels the country looking for employment. But they wind up getting into trouble every chance they get…. |
| LBJ | Lady Bird Johnson | 2017-11-03 | The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House…. |
| Angel City | Kristy Teeter | 1980-11-12 | Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. “Angel City” is no place for the faint of heart…. |
| None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa | Self | 2016-06-07 | A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s 2015 stop-motion animated drama Anomalisa…. |
| Poolman | The film centers on an eccentric pool cleaner who stumbles upon an investigation by a dirty city council…. | ||
| Backdraft | Jennifer Vaitkus | 1991-05-24 | Firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey battle each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torchi… |
| Crooked Hearts | Marriet Hoffman | 1991-09-06 | The father of a family has an affair. This affects every member of the family…. |
| Palindromes | ‘Mark’ Aviva | 2004-09-03 | Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper fr… |
| Welcome to Me | Deb Moseley | 2015-05-01 | A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline personality disorder who wins the Mega Millions lottery, quits her meds and buys her own ta… |
| Good Time | Corey Ellman | 2017-08-11 | After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City’s underworld to get … |
| Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country | Herself | 1993-03-26 | A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman’s Short Cuts…. |
| The Woman in the Window | Jane Russell 2 | 2021-05-14 | An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence…. |
| Awake | Dr. Murphy | 2021-06-09 | After a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Only J… |
| Road to Perdition | Annie Sullivan | 2002-07-12 | Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, … |
| Kill Your Darlings | Naomi Ginsberg | 2013-09-19 | A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs…. |
| The Spectacular Now | Sara Keely | 2013-08-02 | Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger’s lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in hi… |
| Hey Arnold! The Movie | Bridget (voice) | 2002-06-28 | Arnold and his friends must recover a stolen document in order to prevent the neighborhood from being bulldozed…. |
| Morgan | Dr. Kathy Grieff | 2016-09-01 | A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being’s life that was made in a laboratory environment… |
| The Making of Annihilation | Herself | 2018-05-29 | Director Alex Garland, Natalie Portman, and other cast and crew take viewers behind the scenes for a deeper look inside the film’s stunts, intricate s… |
| Frame by Frame: The Invisible Art of Production Designer Carol Spier | 2000-05-08 | The invisible art of production designer Carol Spier. The relationship between director and production designer is a special one. FRAME BY FRAME is a … | |
| QT8: The First Eight | Self | 2019-10-21 | A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scanda… |
| Short Cuts | Lois Kaiser | 1993-09-05 | Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a bo… |
| Would You Kindly Direct Me to Hell?: The Infamous Dorothy Parker | 1994-01-01 | Portrait of writer Dorothy Parker, her Algonquin Round Table friends, her writing and her troubled life. Includes interviews, archival footage of Park… | |
| Easy Money | Allison Capuletti | 1983-08-19 | To inherit his mother-in-law’s colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him…. |
| Alex of Venice | Maureen | 2015-04-17 | After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing fa… |
| The Men’s Club | Teensy | 1986-09-19 | Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work…. |
| The Young Runaways | Heather | 1978-05-28 | Heartless parents C.L. Doyle and his wife take two of their older children, Rosebud & Joseph T. Doyle, on a family vacation to Alaska, but dump their … |
| Wrong Is Right | Young Girl | 1982-04-16 | Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in th… |
| The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies | Self | 1995-06-05 | Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and write… |
| The Spy Who Never Was | Girl Playing with Ball (uncredited) | 1976-06-01 | A diabolical tale of romance, murder, and mistaken identity as a treacherous terrorist organization hunts an enemy agent with the intention of killing… |
| The Man Who Wasn’t There | Female Inmate (voice) (uncredited) | 2001-10-26 | A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but hi… |
Jennifer Jason Leigh Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Anniversary Party | Director | 2001-06-09 | While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, the American actress Sally Nash and the British novelist Joe Therrian receive their … |
Jennifer Jason Leigh Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Greenberg | Producer | 2010-08-18 | A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother’s assistant…. |
| The Anniversary Party | Producer | 2001-06-09 | While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, the American actress Sally Nash and the British novelist Joe Therrian receive their … |
| Georgia | Producer | 1995-05-19 | Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer who’s happily married with children, but can’t break out of the bar-band circuit … |
| Skipped Parts | Co-Producer | 2000-06-06 | A woman and her son must leave a small South Carolina town because of her wild behavior…. |
| Wrong Answer | Executive Producer | A math teacher in Atlanta is scandalized when he looks to get funding for his school by altering his students’ school test scores…. | |
| Wrong Answer | Co-Executive Producer | A math teacher in Atlanta is scandalized when he looks to get funding for his school by altering his students’ school test scores…. | |
| Producer | Sam, an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum, takes a funny, yet painful, journey of self-discovery for love and independence and upends his family…. | ||
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Anniversary Party | Writer | 2001-06-09 | While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, the American actress Sally Nash and the British novelist Joe Therrian receive their … |
| Greenberg | Story | 2010-08-18 | A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother’s assistant…. |
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