Jennifer Jason Leigh

Female | US

Jennifer Jason Leigh was born Jennifer Lee Morrow in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of writer Barbara Turner and actor Vic Morrow. Her father was of Russian Jewish descent and her mother was of Austrian Jewish ancestry. She is the sister of Carrie Ann Morrow and half-sister of actress Mina Badie.

Jennifer's parents divorced when she was two. Jennifer wor...

filmography

Sharp Stick

as Marilyn

... 2022

... 2021

Possessor

as Girder

... 2020

White Boy Rick

as Alex Snyder

... 2018

... 2017

The Spectacular Now

as Sara Keely

... 2013

The Machinist

as Stevie

... 2004

In the Cut

as Pauline

... 2003

Road to Perdition

as Annie Sullivan

... 2002

Heartbreakers

as Wendy / Page Conners / Jane Helstrom

... 2001

Date of Birth:

February 5, 1962

Country:

United States

Biography of

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh was born Jennifer Lee Morrow in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of writer Barbara Turner and actor Vic Morrow. Her father was of Russian Jewish descent and her mother was of Austrian Jewish ancestry. She is the sister of Carrie Ann Morrow and half-sister of actress Mina Badie.

Jennifer's parents divorced when she was two. Jennifer worked in her first film at the age of nine, in a nonspeaking role for the film Death of a Stranger (The Spy Who Never Was (1976)). At 14 she attended summer acting workshops given by Lee Strasberg and landed a role in the Disney TV movie The Magical World of Disney: The Young Runaways (1978), and received her Screen Actors Guild membership in an episode of the TV series Baretta (1975) when she was 16. Jennifer performed in several TV movies and dropped out of Pacific Palisades High School six weeks short of graduation for her major role in the film Eyes of a Stranger (1981). Her first major success came as the female lead in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982).

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Filmography of

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Found 10 movies in total

Sharp Stick

as Marilyn

... 2022

... 2021

Possessor

as Girder

... 2020

White Boy Rick

as Alex Snyder

... 2018

... 2017

The Spectacular Now

as Sara Keely

... 2013

The Machinist

as Stevie

... 2004

In the Cut

as Pauline

... 2003

Road to Perdition

as Annie Sullivan

... 2002

Heartbreakers

as Wendy / Page Conners / Jane Helstrom

... 2001