Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh

1962-02-05 Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA 100 Credits

Biography

Jennifer Jason Leigh (born Jennifer Leigh Morrow; February 5, 1962) is an American actress. She began her career on television during the 1970s before making her film breakthrough in the teen film Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). She received critical praise for her performances in Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989), Miami Blues (1990), Backdraft (1991), Single White Female (1992), and The Hudsucker Proxy (1994). She was nominated for a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Dorothy Parker in Mrs Parke...

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Crime 101

2026

Acting

A series of high level jewelry thefts up and down the Pacific Coast Highway have gone unsolved for years, primarily because the perpetrator has lived ...

Poolman

Poolman

2024

as Susan Kerkovish

4.2
Acting

Darren Barrenman, an unwavering optimist and native Angeleno, spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block and fighting...

Sharp Stick

Sharp Stick

2022

as Marilyn

5.2
Acting

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 ...

Awake

Awake

2021

as Dr. Murphy

5.9
Acting

After a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Only Jil...

The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window

2021

as Jane Russell 2

6.0
Acting

An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.

Possessor

Possessor

2020

as Girder

6.4
Acting

Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As s...

QT8: The First Eight

QT8: The First Eight

2019

as Self

7.2
Acting

A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scanda...

Sid & Judy

Sid & Judy

2019

as Judy Garland (voice)

7.4
Acting

Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entertainer Judy Garland through rare concert footage, n...

White Boy Rick

White Boy Rick

2018

as Alex Snyder

6.4
Acting

The story of Richard Wershe Jr., a teenager who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s, and was ultimately arrested for drug t...

Annihilation

Annihilation

2018

as Dr Ventress

6.4
Acting

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

LBJ

LBJ

2017

as Lady Bird Johnson

6.4
Acting

The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.

Good Time

Good Time

2017

as Corey Ellman

7.2
Acting

After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get ...

Amityville: The Awakening

Amityville: The Awakening

2017

as Joan Walker

5.3
Acting

Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother in order to save money to help pay for her brot...

Morgan

Morgan

2016

as Dr. Kathy Grieff

5.8
Acting

A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment...

None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa

None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa

2016

as Self

Acting

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's 2015 stop-motion animated drama Anomalisa.

Anomalisa

Anomalisa

2015

as Lisa Hesselman (voice)

7.1
Acting

An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.

The Hateful Eight

The Hateful Eight

2015

as Daisy Domergue

7.8
Acting

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

Alex of Venice

Alex of Venice

2015

as Maureen

5.9
Acting

After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing fa...

Me

Me

2014

as Kelly

2.5
Acting

A down and out actress secretly sells a reality show about her friend, a delusional eccentric, a once famous creator of reality shows, who now believe...

Welcome to Me

Welcome to Me

2014

as Deb Moseley

5.8
Acting

A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline personality disorder who wins the Mega Millions lottery, quits her meds and buys her own ta...

Jake Squared

Jake Squared

2014

as Sheryl

4.1
Acting

A filmmaker sets out to make a new project in order to figure out how he's screwed up every relationship he's ever had.

Hateship Loveship

Hateship Loveship

2014

as Chloe

5.8
Acting

A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's pran...

Open

Open

2014

as Holly

4.2
Acting

Modern, provocative exploration of human sexuality and relationships.

Kill Your Darlings

Kill Your Darlings

2013

as Naomi Ginsberg

7.0
Acting

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

The Spectacular Now

The Spectacular Now

2013

as Sara Keely

6.7
Acting

Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in hi...

The Moment

The Moment

2013

as Lee

4.5
Acting

Fearing she may be responsible, a mental patient (Jennifer Jason Leigh) tries to unravel the mystery behind her ex-lover's (Martin Henderson) disappea...

Greenberg

Greenberg

2010

as Beth (Beller's Party)

5.9
Acting

Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller), a failed musician now making a living as a carpenter in New York, returns to Los Angeles to house-sit for his brother (...

Greenberg

Greenberg

2010

Story, Producer

5.9
Writing Producing

Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller), a failed musician now making a living as a carpenter in New York, returns to Los Angeles to house-sit for his brother (...

Der Regisseur Uli Edel - Fakten und Fiktion

2009

as Self

Acting

Documentary about the German director Uli Edel

Synecdoche, New York

Synecdoche, New York

2008

as Maria

7.6
Acting

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 ...

Margot at the Wedding

Margot at the Wedding

2007

as Pauline

5.8
Acting

Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline's wedding to unemployed ...

The Making of 'Last Exit to Brooklyn'

The Making of 'Last Exit to Brooklyn'

2006

Acting

A wonderful making of featurette that focuses on the controversial novel that inspired the film Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) as well the production hi...

Rag Tale

Rag Tale

2005

as Mary Josephine 'MJ' Morton

3.2
Acting

A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.

Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday

2005

as Mother

Acting

A sensitive 10-year-old girl, Viv, gets an unexpected visit from her disturbed mother. Despite some difficult feelings and emotion and confusion, Viv ...

Palindromes

Palindromes

2005

as 'Mark' Aviva

6.2
Acting

Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper fr...

The Jacket

The Jacket

2005

as Dr. Beth Lorenson

6.9
Acting

A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he ...

The Machinist

The Machinist

2004

as Stevie

7.5
Acting

Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to ...

Childstar

Childstar

2004

as Suzanne

4.9
Acting

An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.

In the Cut

In the Cut

2003

as Pauline

5.1
Acting

Following the gruesome murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, an English teacher living in New York City — as if to test the limits of her own s...

Searching for Debra Winger

Searching for Debra Winger

2002

as Self (uncredited)

6.3
Acting

Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.

Road to Perdition

Road to Perdition

2002

as Annie Sullivan

7.4
Acting

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, ...

Hey Arnold! The Movie

Hey Arnold! The Movie

2002

as Bridget (voice)

6.5
Acting

Arnold and his friends must recover a stolen document in order to prevent the neighborhood from being bulldozed.

Crossed Over

Crossed Over

2002

as Karla Faye Tucker

4.7
Acting

After her son dies in a hit-and-run accident, a woman forms an unusual friendship with a convicted killer awaiting execution.

The Man Who Wasn't There

The Man Who Wasn't There

2001

as Female Inmate (voice) (uncredited)

7.5
Acting

A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but hi...

The Quickie

The Quickie

2001

as Lisa

4.6
Acting

A crime soap opera about a Russian mobster retiring from "the business" on New Year's Eve, only to discover he has been targeted for death by a rival ...

The Anniversary Party

The Anniversary Party

2001

as Sally Nash Therrian

5.7
Acting

While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, American actress Sally Nash and British novelist Joe Therrian receive their close fr...

The Anniversary Party

The Anniversary Party

2001

Director, Writer, Producer

5.7
Directing Writing Producing

While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, American actress Sally Nash and British novelist Joe Therrian receive their close fr...

Skipped Parts

Skipped Parts

2000

as Lydia Callahan

6.0
Acting

A woman and her son must leave a small South Carolina town because of her wild behavior.

Skipped Parts

Skipped Parts

2000

Co-Producer

6.0
Producing

A woman and her son must leave a small South Carolina town because of her wild behavior.

The King Is Alive

The King Is Alive

2000

as Gina

5.9
Acting

Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by th...

Frame by Frame: The Invisible Art of Production Designer Carol Spier

Frame by Frame: The Invisible Art of Production Designer Carol Spier

2000

as Self

Acting

The invisible art of production designer Carol Spier. The relationship between director and production designer is a special one. FRAME BY FRAME is a ...

eXistenZ

eXistenZ

1999

as Allegra Geller

6.8
Acting

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been dam...

Thanks of a Grateful Nation

Thanks of a Grateful Nation

1998

as Teri Small

4.0
Acting

An examination of the aftermath of Desert Storm and how servicemen and women were affected by it medically.

The Love Letter

The Love Letter

1998

as Lizzie Whitcomb

6.4
Acting

20th century computer games designer Scott, Civil War buff, buys an antique desk from that era and, while polishing it, he discovers a secret compartm...

Washington Square

Washington Square

1997

as Catherine Sloper

6.2
Acting

Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must de...

A Thousand Acres

A Thousand Acres

1997

as Caroline Cook

5.8
Acting

The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family's fertile farm.

Cinema Cinema

Cinema Cinema

1997

as Herself

Acting

This is a film about the making of Salaam Cinema by Mohsen Makhmalbaf in Tehran and it’s eventual screening in Cannes Film Festival. Viewers are intro...

Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996

as Anney Boatwright

7.1
Acting

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her ti...

Kansas City

Kansas City

1996

as Blondie O'Hara

6.2
Acting

A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

1995

as Self

8.1
Acting

Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and write...

Georgia

Georgia

1995

as Sadie Flood

5.8
Acting

Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very obsession — coupled with her self-destructive tend...

Georgia

Georgia

1995

Producer

5.8
Producing

Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very obsession — coupled with her self-destructive tend...

Dolores Claiborne

Dolores Claiborne

1995

as Selena St. George

7.3
Acting

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk ...

Would You Kindly Direct Me to Hell?: The Infamous Dorothy Parker

1994

as Self

5.0
Acting

Portrait of writer Dorothy Parker, her Algonquin Round Table friends, her writing and her troubled life. Includes interviews, archival footage of Park...

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

1994

as Dorothy Parker

5.8
Acting

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted w...

The Hudsucker Proxy

The Hudsucker Proxy

1994

as Amy Archer

7.1
Acting

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

Short Cuts

Short Cuts

1993

as Lois Kaiser

7.2
Acting

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a bo...

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

1993

as Self

6.0
Acting

A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts.

Single White Female

Single White Female

1992

as Hedra 'Hedy' Carlson

6.3
Acting

Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boy...

The Prom

The Prom

1992

as Lana

7.0
Acting

Marty is not comfortable showing his body at college or private. He is suffering from a skin disease called nevus flammeus. In town he stumbles on The...

Rush

Rush

1991

as Kristen Cates

6.6
Acting

Undercover cop Jim Raynor is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates, is lacking in experience, but he thinks she's tough enough to work his ne...

Crooked Hearts

Crooked Hearts

1991

as Marriet Hoffman

5.5
Acting

An upper-middle class family in Washington state deals with failures, infidelities and troubling secrets. Charley is 26 and still lives at home, despi...

Backdraft

Backdraft

1991

as Jennifer Vaitkus

6.7
Acting

Firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey battle each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torchi...

Partners in Life

Partners in Life

1990

as Blossom

10.0
Acting

During the Great Depression, a bumbling duo travels the country looking for employment. But they wind up getting into trouble every chance they get.

Buried Alive

Buried Alive

1990

as Joanna Goodman

6.7
Acting

A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish...

Miami Blues

Miami Blues

1990

as Susie Waggoner

6.0
Acting

After Junior is released from prison, he plans on starting a new life in Miami. But when he kills a man in the airport, he flees the scene and finds S...

The Big Picture

The Big Picture

1989

as Lydia Johnson

5.9
Acting

Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Stu...

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Last Exit to Brooklyn

1989

as Tralala

6.5
Acting

A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute...

Heart of Midnight

Heart of Midnight

1988

as Carol

5.7
Acting

A young woman who is getting back on her feet after a mental breakdown, Carol Rivers discovers that her late uncle has left her a rundown nightclub. C...

Under Cover

Under Cover

1987

as Tanille Laroux

4.2
Acting

A cop goes undercover in a South Carolina high school. With the help of a local narcotics officer, he investigates the drug ring responsible for anoth...

Sister, Sister

Sister, Sister

1987

as Lucy Bonnard

4.6
Acting

Sisters Charlotte and Lucy Bonnard live together in the gloomy Louisiana family mansion that they’ve turned into a boarding house. But when a mysterio...

Picnic

Picnic

1986

as Madge Owens

1.0
Acting

A southern bell falls for a handsome drifter with no prospects, going against her parents' wishes to marry a rich businessman.

The Men's Club

The Men's Club

1986

as Teensy

4.0
Acting

Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.

The Hitcher

The Hitcher

1986

as Nash

7.0
Acting

On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a ...

Flesh + Blood

Flesh + Blood

1985

as Agnes

6.6
Acting

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 ...

Grandview, U.S.A.

Grandview, U.S.A.

1984

as Candy Webster

5.8
Acting

Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to...

Girls of the White Orchid

Girls of the White Orchid

1983

as Carol Heath

5.2
Acting

In Los Angeles, naive and lonely waitress and aspirant singer Carol finds an advertisement for a job opportunity in Tokyo. Traveling to Japan to work ...

Easy Money

Easy Money

1983

as Allison Capuletti

6.0
Acting

To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.

Have You Ever Been Ashamed Of Your Parents?

Have You Ever Been Ashamed Of Your Parents?

1983

as Andrea Fairchild

Acting

Two teenage girls, one rich and one middle-class, become best friends over the summer.

The First Time

The First Time

1982

as Bonnie Dillon

4.0
Acting

An emotionally troubled teenage girl drops out of high school and travels with her boyfriend to San Diego, while the girl's mother enlists the help of...

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1982

as Stacy Hamilton

6.8
Acting

Based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times follows a group of high school students growing up in Southern California. S...

Wrong Is Right

Wrong Is Right

1982

as Young Girl

5.5
Acting

Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in th...

The Best Little Girl in the World

The Best Little Girl in the World

1981

as Casey Powell

5.1
Acting

Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self...

The Killing of Randy Webster

The Killing of Randy Webster

1981

as Amy Wheeler

5.8
Acting

When his teenage son is shot by the Houston police following a stolen van chase, his father undertakes a tireless investigation into the truth and unc...

I Think I'm Having A Baby

I Think I'm Having A Baby

1981

as Laurie Mcintyre

4.0
Acting

Laurie is 15 and she thinks she's pregnant. Her boyfriend doesn't care. Her mother doesn't know. Why did it happen? And whom can she turn to?

Eyes of a Stranger

Eyes of a Stranger

1981

as Tracy Harris

5.9
Acting

A TV newswoman catches a pervert watching her sister who cannot see, hear or speak.

Angel City

Angel City

1980

as Kristy Teeter

5.8
Acting

Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.

The Young Runaways

The Young Runaways

1978

as Heather

6.0
Acting

Heartless parents C.L. Doyle and his wife take two of their older children, Rosebud & Joseph T. Doyle, on a family vacation to Alaska, but dump their ...

The Spy Who Never Was

The Spy Who Never Was

1976

as Girl Playing with Ball (uncredited)

6.0
Acting

A diabolical tale of romance, murder, and mistaken identity as a treacherous terrorist organization hunts an enemy agent with the intention of killing...

Night Always Comes

N/A

Acting

A woman risks everything to secure a future for herself and her brother by setting out on a dangerous odyssey in Portland, in doing so confronting her...