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Jennifer Jason Leigh

02/05/1962 (62 years old) | Hollywood, USA | Actor | Female

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.Description above from the Wikipedia article Jennifer Jason Leigh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Jennifer Jason Leigh Top Movies and TV Shows in 2024

Chart List

1.	White Boy Rick	494
2.	The Machinist	346
3.	Synecdoche, New York	294
4.	The Hateful Eight	178
5.	Flesh + Blood	169
6.	Good Time	71
7.	The Aviator	45
8.	Lisey's Story	14
9.	Backdraft	9
10.	Lucky Number Slevin	8
11.	Margot at the Wedding	7
12.	Possessor	6
13.	The Anniversary Party	4
14.	Amityville: The Awakening	4
15.	Sharp Stick	2
16.	Fast Times at Ridgemont High	0
17.	Annihilation	0
18.	Single White Female	0
19.	Road to Perdition	0
20.	Dolores Claiborne	0
21.	Kill Your Darlings	0
22.	Anomalisa	0
23.	Weeds	0

White Boy Rick

Movie | United States | 09/14/2018 | Drama | Drugs

The story of teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.

6.5/10

57%

4,223

The Machinist

Movie | Spain | 10/22/2004 | Thriller

The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ability to sleep. This is no ordinary insomnia...

7.6/10

77%

910

Synecdoche, New York

Movie | United States | 10/24/2008 | Drama

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 part of his new play.

7.4/10

69%

294

The Hateful Eight

Movie | United States | 12/25/2015 | Western | Revenge

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

7.8/10

74%

1,378

Flesh + Blood

Movie | Netherlands | 08/30/1985 | Adventure | Knights

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 and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.

6.7/10

86%

182

Good Time

Movie | United States | 08/11/2017 | Crime | Mystery

A bank robber tries to avoid the law closing in on him.

7.3/10

91%

125

The Aviator

Movie | United States | 12/25/2004 | Biography | Business

Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning biopic about the life of film-maker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. After a scene from 1914, which may explain his later fear of dirt and disease, the film starts in 1927 during Hughes filming of the World War I aviation film \Hells Angels\. Hes 22 years old, has inherited the familys fortune and tool company, but wants to spend his time making film instead. However, he soon finds himself just as involved in the aviation industry, buying an airline and developing new planes.

7.5/10

86%

442

Lisey's Story

This terrifying thriller follows widow Lisey Landon as a series of disturbing events revives memories of her marriage to author Scott Landon and the darkness that plagued him.

6.1/10

53%

138

Backdraft

Movie | United States | 05/24/1991 | Action | Firefighters

They say a blast of flames can take a life ... and hide a secret. But now firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey are battling each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torching Chicago.

6.7/10

74%

194

Lucky Number Slevin

Movie | United States | 04/07/2006 | Crime | Gangsters

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma. A film with many twists and turns.

7.7/10

51%

178

Margot at the Wedding

Movie | United States | 08/31/2007 | Drama | Wedding

Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed family secrets.

6.0/10

52%

Possessor

Movie | Canada | 10/09/2020 | Horror

Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.

6.5/10

601

The Anniversary Party

Movie | United States | 05/15/2001

While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, the American actress Sally Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and the British novelist Joe Therrian (Alan Cumming) receive their close friends, some colleagues and their next door neighbors in a party. Under the effect of Ecstasy, revelations are disclosed and relationships deteriorate among the group.

6.4/10

61%

Amityville: The Awakening

Movie | United States | 06/30/2017 | Horror | Demons

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 brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her Mother isn't telling her everything and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house.

4.8/10

30%

Sharp Stick

Movie | 07/29/2022 | Comedy

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 is thrust into an education on sexuality, loss and power.

4.9/10

45%

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Movie | United States | 08/13/1982 | Comedy | Teens

Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope.

7.1/10

78%

178

Annihilation

Movie | United States | 02/22/2018 | Science Fiction | Sci-fi drama

A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

6.8/10

88%

446

Single White Female

Movie | United States | 08/14/1992 | Thriller | Abduction

Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam proves unfaithful, Allison strikes out on her own but must use the classifieds to seek out a roommate in order to keep her spacious digs.

6.4/10

53%

1,127

Road to Perdition

Movie | United States | 07/12/2002 | Drama | Gangsters

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, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him.

7.7/10

81%

393

Dolores Claiborne

Movie | United States | 03/24/1995 | Thriller | Murder

Selena is a big-shot reporter in the city who has long distanced herself from her roots in a small town in Maine. She finds herself compelled to return, however, after her mother is accused of murdering the wealthy woman for whom she worked as a maid. Selena has a very bad relationship with her mother, and their visit is incredibly tense, particularly since she strongly suspects that her mother is guilty. As the days go by, however, Selena's investigative skills lead her to some surprising revelations about her own past and her mother's motivations. While Dolores may be a hard woman, she did not become so overnight. As she learns more about what has contributed to the make-up of her mother's armor, her own dissipates

7.4/10

85%

Kill Your Darlings

Movie | United States | 10/16/2013 | Biography | Writers

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

6.5/10

76%

Anomalisa

Movie | United States | 12/30/2015 | Comedy

A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.

7.6/10

92%

Weeds

Weeds is an American dark comedy-drama series created by Jenji Kohan. The central character is Nancy Botwin, a widowed mother of two boys who begins selling cannabis to support her family after her husband dies suddenly of a heart attack. Over the course of the show, she and her family become increasingly entangled in illegal activities.

7.9/10

70%

2,117

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