Jennifer Jason Leigh

 Real name
     Jennifer Lee Morrow
     Date of birth
     5 February 1962,
     Hollywood, California, USA.

• dropped out of Pacific Palisades High School six weeks before graduation to work on the film _Eyes Of A Stranger_
• Father was Vic Morrow, actor, born 1931;  divorced from Leigh's mother 1964; died 1982 in controversial helicopter accident on _Twilight Zone: The Movie_

"I'm naturally curious about other ways of being, but in life I'm too self-conscious to understand or investigate them.  In acting, I get free rein."

"Acting is a way for me to be with people."

"For me, choosing to act was a very personal thing, a way for a shy girl to communicate."

"I'm attracted to people who behave from their gut, because I don't. People who are impulsive and crude and violent and all these things that I am not by nature.  I'm very cerebral and quiet and shy."

"Maybe I'm drawn to strange characters because my life is so boring."

"There's always been something beautiful to me about someone who dreams about something, desperately wants it, but has no talent for it.  There's something really painful and funny and moving about that."

"I'm one of those people who have nothing to say."

• appears in Tech News - Apple Imac Imovie digital movie making news feature (quicktime) featuring  Sinbad, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gregory Hines
• Jennifer Jason Leigh Mac commercial (quicktime)(truncated)

Filmography as: Actress, Producer

Actress filmography
 
 

•   1.eXistenZ (vhs/ntsc) (1999) .... Allegra Geller

    ... aka Crimes of the Future (1998) (Canada: English title: working title)
• features the videogame of the same name, designed by Allegra Geller for Antenna Research

 

 


 
•   2."Hercules" (1998) TV Series (voice) .... Tempest

    ... aka "Disney's Hercules" (1998) (USA)
•   3."Thanks of a Grateful Nation" (1998) (mini) TV Series .... Teri Small
•   4.Love Letter, The (1998) (TV) .... Elizabeth Whitcomb
•   5.Thousand Acres, A (1997) .... Caroline Cook
•   6.Washington Square (1997) .... Catherine Sloper
•   7.Kansas City (1996) .... Blondie O'Hara
•   8.Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) .... Anney
•   9._Georgia_ (vhs/ntsc) (1995) .... Sadie

•  10._Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle_ (vhs/ntsc) (1994) .... Dorothy Parker
•     ... aka Mrs. Parker and the Round Table (1994)
  • R&B soul track _The Ballad Of Mrs. Parker_ MP3 (160k) by Prince off of _Sign O The Times_ (1987)
•  11.Hudsucker Proxy, The (1994) .... Amy Archer
•  12._Dolores Claiborne_ (vhs/ntsc) (1994).... Selena St. George
•  13.Would You Kindly Direct Me To Hell?: The Infamous Dorothy Parker (1994) (TV)
•  14.Short Cuts (1993) .... Lois Kaiser
•  15._Single White Female_ (vhs/ntsc) (1992) .... Hedra Carlson
•  16.Prom, The (1992) .... Lana
•  17.Backdraft (1991) .... Jennifer Vaitkus
•  18.Crooked Hearts (1991) .... Marriet Hoffman
•  19._Rush_ (vhs/ntsc) (1991).... Kristen
•  20.Miami Blues (1990) .... Susie Waggoner
•  21.Buried Alive (1990/II) (TV) .... Joanna Goodman
•  22.Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) .... Tralala
•     ... aka Letzte Ausfahrt Brooklyn (1989) (West Germany)
•  23.Big Picture, The (1989) .... Lydia Johnson
•  24.Heart of Midnight (1988) .... Carol Rivers
•  25.Sister, Sister (1987) .... Lucy Bonnard
•  26.Under Cover (1987) .... Tanille Lareoux
•  27.Hitcher, The (1986) .... Nash
•  28.Men's Club, The (1986) .... Teensy
•  29.Picnic (1986) (TV) .... Madge Owens
•  30.Flesh & Blood (1985) .... Agnes
•     ... aka Rose and the Sword, The (1985)
•  31.Grandview, U.S.A. (1984) .... Candy Webster
•  32.Easy Money (1983) .... Allison Capoletti
•  33.Girls of the White Orchid (1983) (TV) .... Carol Heath
•     ... aka Death Ride to Osaka (1983) (TV)
•  34.Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) .... Stacy Hamilton
•  35.First Time, The (1982/II) (TV)
•  36.Wrong Is Right (1982)
•     ... aka Man with the Deadly Lens, The (1982)
•  37.I Think I'm Having a Baby (1981) (TV) .... Laurie
•  38.Best Little Girl in the World, The (1981) (TV) .... Casey Powell
•  Under medical supervision, Jennifer Jason Leigh wasted down to 90 pounds for her role _Best Little Girl In The World_
•  39.Eyes of a Stranger (1981) .... Tracy
•  40.Killing of Randy Webster, The (1981) (TV)
•  41.Angel City (1980) (TV) .... Kristy Teeter

    ... aka Field of Tears (1980) (TV)

Producer filmography

  1.Georgia (1995)
 

Filmography as: Actress, Producer

Notable TV guest appearances

  1."Tracey Takes On..." (1996) playing "Paige" in episode: "Sports" 3/8/1998
  2."King of the Hill" (1997) playing "Amy"(voice) in episode: "I Remember Mono" 2/8/1998
  3."Waltons, The" (1972) playing "Kathy" in episode: "Pursuit, The" 1980

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