Jennifer jason leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh was born on February 5, 1962 in Hollywood, which is not uncommon considering that she is the daughter of actors Vic Morrow and Barbara Turner . She started her career when she was a child and since then she has participated in more than seventy titles. However, she cannot be considered a famous actress. In her filmography there are no big box office hits, on the other hand there are endless independent titles that have helped her to consolidate her career and not turn her into the typical “celebrity”.

His first role came when he was 9 years old in the film Death of a Stranger (1973), although he did not have a single line to say. A few years after her, her parents sent her to an acting camp for children, which helped her to participate in the Disney telefilm The Young Runaways (1978). In 1981 she had her first relevant role in the horror film The Eyes of a Stranger , where she played the blind sister of the protagonist. Throughout Ella Leigh’s career she has gone through different genres. In terror, she has worked on titles such as Highway to Hell (1986) , Midnight Heart (1988), Buried Alive (1990) or eXistenZ (1999) byDavid Cronenberg , although among them stands out her interpretation of Hedy in Single White Woman Seeks (1992) where she gave Bridget Fonda a hard time .

Despite the fact that there is no blockbuster title in her career, Jennifer can boast of having worked with some of the best in the profession. Thus, when she was a young girl, she starred with an unknown Sean Penn in the teen comedy That Exciting Course (1982). In 1991 he was put under the orders of Ron Howard in Flames (1991) and two years later he was part of Robert Altman ‘s typical ensemble cast in Lives Crossed , where he shared the bill with Jack Lemmon , Julianne Moore , Anne Archer , Robert Downey Jr. , Tim Robbins andFrances McDormand , among others. With the Coen brothers she worked in The Great Leap (1994) where she played a journalist with a very good nose and she had the opportunity to work with Paul Newman . In 1996 she starred in Anjelica Huston ‘s directorial debut in the family drama Carolina’s Bastard . That same year she returned to work for Altman in Kansas City and a few months later she did the same for Agnieszka Holland in the romantic drama based on Henry James Washington Square (1997). She also has to her credit having been the wife of Tom Hanks in the gangster film by Sam Mendes Road to perdition (2002).

Jason Leigh’s interests have transcended the barrier of interpretation and in 2001 she made her debut as a writer and director in The Anniversary Party , a dramatic comedy about a famous Hollywood couple, a world that the actress has known firsthand since she was born. In her debut as a filmmaker she was accompanied by actor Alan Cumming.–with whom he also starred in the film– another rookie in directing. Jennifer also worked as a producer, a task that she had already performed on a couple of occasions in the past. But curiously, since then she has not repeated in any of these three facets. In 2005, four years of this experience had already passed, but Jennifer was about to debut in another field. This time as a wife, by marrying Noah Baumbach in September . Her husband directed her in the family drama Margot and the Wedding (2007) where she was Nicole Kidman ‘s sister . She is currently shooting again under the orders of her husband in her new project, Greenberg , a comedy where she shares the bill with Ben Stiller andRhys Ifans .