Jennifer Jason Leigh
Biography of Jennifer Jason Leigh
Jennifer Jason Leigh was born on February 5, 1958, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
She is the daughter of writer Barbara Turner and actor Vic Morrow.
Her parents were Jews from Russian and Austrian families. They divorced when she was two years old. She changed her last name early in her career in honor of actor Jason Robards, a family friend of hers.
She had an older sister, Carrie Ann Morrow, and a half-sister, actress Mina Badie, on her mother's side, who acted alongside her in The Anniversary Party (2001), a film she directed. The director, Reza Badiyi, became her stepfather.
She worked on her first film at age nine in a non-text role in the film Death of a Stranger (1973).
At fourteen, she attended the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center on Loch Sheldrake in New York, acting workshops offered by Lee Strasberg, and landed a role in the film The Young Runaways (1978). She also appeared in an episode of the series Baretta, in another of The Waltons, and other television movies.
Jennifer owes her fame in Hollywood for taking all of her roles very seriously since she made her debut in 1979 with Buio Omega. To work in Georgia on her father's script, Jennifer lost weight, watched music documentaries and made friends with people in rehab.
For the big screen, she played a blind, deaf and mute rape victim in the film Eyes of a Stranger, for which she dropped out of school to star in it in 1981. The following year, she played a pregnant teenager in the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which served as his launch pad. She later acted as a virginal princess kidnapped and raped by mercenaries in Flesh + Blood (1985), an innocent waitress chased by a psychopath in The Hitcher (1986), and in Heart of Midnight (1989).
Among her performances, the moving Catherine Slooper of The Heiress stands out. She also works for television and writes scripts. She made her debut behind the camera with The anniversary party, a low-budget digital film released in 2001, written with British actor Alan Cumming. In the film appear among others, Kevin Kline and Gwyneth Paltrow.
She starred in Margotat the Wedding (2007), directed by Noah Baumbach, her husband at the time, and had a recurring role on the television series Weeds as Jill Price-Gray.
In 2015, she received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Daisy Domergue in Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also appeared in the sci-fi thriller film Morgan (2016), the horror film Amityville: The Awakening (2017), Annihilation (2018), and the drama White Boy Rick (2018). In 2019, she starred in two episodes of the final season of Showtime's The Affair.
In 1994 she received a Golden Globe for best actress for her performance in Mrs. Parker & The Vicious Circle.
In 1982, her father, Vic Morrow, was accidentally killed while filming Twilight Zone: The Movie. Leigh and her sister filed a lawsuit against Warner Brothers, John Landis, and Steven Spielberg. They reached an agreement a year later. The terms were not made public.
She met freelance writer-director Noah Baumbach in 2001 while performing on Broadway. They were married on September 2, 2005.
Her son, Rohmer Emmanuel, was born on March 17, 2010.
Jennifer Jason Leigh filed for divorce on November 15, 2010, in Los Angeles, citing irreconcilable differences. The divorce proceedings were finalized in September 2013.
Filmography
2022 Sharp Stick
2021 Awake
2021 The Woman in the Window
2020 Possessor
2018 White Boy Rick
2017 Annihilation
2017 Amityville: The Awakening
2016 LBJ
2016 Morgan
2015 The Hateful Eight
2015 Amityville
2014 Welcome to Me
2013 The Moment
2013 Jake Squared
2013 Hateship
2013 Kill Your Darlings
2013 The Spectacular Now
2012 Revenge /7 episodios
2010 Greenberg
2008 Synecdoche, New York
2007 Margot at the Wedding
2005 Rag Tale
2005 The Jacket
2003 In the Cut
2003 The Machinist
2002 Road to Perdition
2001 The Anniversary Party
2001 The Quickie
2000 The King Is Alive
2000 Skipped
1997 A Thousand Acres
1997 Washington Square
1996 Bastard out of Carolina
1996 Kansas City
1995 Dolores Claiborne
1995 Georgia
1994 Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994 The Hudsucker Proxy
1993 Short Cuts
1992 Single White Female
1992 Prom
1991 Rush
1991 Backdraft
1991 Crooked Hearts
1990 Last Exit to Brooklyn
1990 Miami Blues
1989 The Big Picture
1989 Heart of Midnight
1987 Sister, Sister
1987 Undercover
1986 The Men's Club
1986 The Hitcher
1985 Flesh + Blood
1984 Grandview, U.S.A.
1983 Easy Money
1982 Wrong Is Right
1982 Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1981 Eyes of a Stranger
1979 Buio Omega
Television
1977 Baretta
1978 Family
1978 The Wonderful World of Disney
1980 Angel City
1981 The Waltons
1981 CBS Schoolbreak Special
1981 The Killing of Randy Webster
1981 The Best Little Girl in the World
1982 Trapper John, M.D.
1982 The First Time
1983 ABC Afterschool Special
1983 Girls of the White Orchid
1990 Buried Alive
1998 The Love Letter
1998 King of the Hill
1998 Tracey Takes On...
1998 Adventures from the Book of Virtues
1998 Thanks of a Grateful Nation
1998 Hercules
1999 Superman: The Animated Series
1999 Todd McFarlane's Spawn
2000 Twitch City
2001 Frasier
2002 Mission Hill
2009 Weeds
2012 Revenge
2014 Open
2017 Twin Peaks
2017 Atypical
2018 Patrick Melrose
2019 The Affair
2021 Lisey's Story
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