Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Born 02/05/1962 (62 years old)
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

Jennifer Jason Leigh came to prominence alongside Sean Penn, Phoebe Cates and Nicolas Cage in Amy Heckerling's FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH. Six years later, she garnered the Best Supporting Actress Awards from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Boston Society of Film Critics for her portrayals in both Uli Edel's LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN and George Armitage's MIAMI BLUES.

Subsequently, Leigh starred in Robert Altman's films SHORT CUTS and KANSAS CITY, Joel and Ethan Coen's THE HUDSUCKER PROXY, Barbet Schroeder's SINGLE WHITE FEMALE, David Cronenberg's EXISTENZ, Jane Campion's IN THE CUT, Agnieszka Holland's WASHINGTON SQUARE, Sam Mendes's ROAD TO PERDITION and Ulu Grosbard's GEORGIA which she also produced. Other films include Lili Fini Zanuck's RUSH, Ron Howard's BACKDRAFT, Chrisopher Guest's THE BIG PICTURE, Brad Anderson's THE MACHINIST, and Todd Solondz's PALINDROMES.

She more recently appeared in ANOMALISA, the groundbreaking stop-motion animated film written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and directed by Duke Johnson, which she stars opposite David Thewlis.

Other morerecent film work includes THE SPECTATCULAR NOW with Shailene Woodley, HATESHIP LOVESHIP with Kristen Wiig and Guy Pearce and KILL YOUR DARLINGS with Daniel Radcliffe.
Leigh made her writing and directorial debut in 2001 with THE ANNIVERSARY PARTY which she co-wrote, co-starred and co-directed with Alan Cumming.

Broadway credits include "Cabaret," directed by Sam Mendes, and David Auburn's "Proof." In 2006 she starred in the American premiere of Mike Leigh's "Abigail's Party" for The New Group and in the radio play "Anomalisa" written and directed by Charlie Kaufman at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles.
Leigh starred in Noah Baumbach's MARGOT AT THE WEDDING opposite Nicole Kidman and Jack Black, Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener and in GREENBERG, which Leigh also produced with Scott Rudin.

Her performance in Alan Rudolph's MRS. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE won her a Golden Globe nomination, the Best Actress Awards from the National Society of Film Critics, the Chicago Film Critics Association and her first Independent Spirit Award nomination.

The Weinstein Company

Actress

Movies
2023

Poolman

2022

Sharp Stick

2021

Awake

 

The Woman in the Window

2020

Possessor

2018

Annihilation

 

White Boy Rick

2017

Amityville: The Awakening

 

Good Time

Ads

Ads

2016

LBJ

 

Morgan

2015

Anomalisa

 

The Hateful Eight

2014

Alex of Venice

 

Me

 

Open (TV movie)

 

Welcome to Me

2013

Hateship Loveship

 

Jake Squared

 

Kill Your Darlings

 

The Moment

 

The Spectacular Now

2010

Greenberg

2008

Synecdoche, New York

2007

Margot at the Wedding

2005

Rag Tale

 

The Jacket

2004

Childstar

 

Palindromes

 

The Machinist

2003

In the Cut

2002

Crossed Over (TV movie)

 

Hey Arnold! The Movie

 

Road to Perdition

2001

The Anniversary Party

 

The Man Who Wasn't There

 

The Quickie

2000

Skipped Parts

 

The King Is Alive

1999

Spawn 3: Ultimate Battle

 

eXistenZ

1998

Thanks of a Grateful Nation (TV movie)

 

The Love Letter (TV movie)

1997

A Thousand Acres

 

Washington Square

1996

Bastard Out of Carolina

 

Kansas City

1995

Dolores Claiborne

 

Georgia

1994

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

 

The Hudsucker Proxy

1993

Short Cuts

1992

Single White Female

 

The Prom

1991

Backdraft

 

Crooked Hearts

 

Rush

1990

Buried Alive (TV movie)

 

Miami Blues

 

Partners in Life (TV movie)

1989

Last Exit to Brooklyn

 

The Big Picture

1988

Heart of Midnight

1987

Sister, Sister

 

Under Cover

1986

Picnic (TV movie)

 

The Hitcher

 

The Men's Club

1985

Flesh+Blood

1984

Grandview, U.S.A.

1983

Easy Money

 

Girls of the White Orchid (TV movie)

 

Have You Ever Been Ashamed of Your Parents? (TV movie)

1982

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

 

The First Time (TV movie)

 

Wrong Is Right

1981

Eyes of a Stranger

 

I Think I'm Having a Baby (TV movie)

 

The Best Little Girl in the World (TV movie)

 

The Killing of Randy Webster (TV movie)

1980

Angel City (TV movie)

1978

The Young Runaways (TV movie)

1976

The Mad Killers

Series
2024

Fargo

 

Bisquik (S05E10)

 

The Useless Hand (S05E09)

 

Blanket (S05E08)

2023

Fargo

 

The Tender Trap (S05E06)

 

The Tiger (S05E05)

 

Insolubilia (S05E04)

  more episodes (3)
 

Hunters

 

The Trial of Adolf Hitler (S02E08)

 

Only the Dead (S02E06)

 

Blutsbande (S02E05)

  more episodes (3)
2021

Atypical

 

Dessert at Olive Garden (S04E10)

 

Player's Ball (S04E09)

 

Magical Bird #2 (S04E08)

  more episodes (7)
 

Lisey's Story

 

Lisey’s Story (E08)

 

No Light, No Spark (E07)

 

Now You Must Be Still (E06)

  more episodes (5)
2019

Atypical

 

Searching for Brown Sugar Man (S03E10)

 

Sam Takes a Walk (S03E09)

 

Road Rage Paige (S03E08)

  more episodes (7)
2018

Atypical

 

Ernest Shackleton's Rules for Survival (S02E10)

 

Ritual-licious (S02E09)

 

Living at an Angle (S02E08)

  more episodes (7)
 

Patrick Melrose

 

At Last (E05)

 

Mother's Milk (E04)

 

Some Hope (E03)

  more episodes (2)
2017

Atypical

 

The Silencing Properties of Snow (S01E08)

 

I Lost My Poor Meatball (S01E07)

 

The D-Train to Bone Town (S01E06)

  more episodes (5)
 

Twin Peaks

 

Episode 16 (S03E16)

 

Episode 15 (S03E15)

 

Episode 13 (S03E13)

  more episodes (3)
2012

Revenge

 

Penance (S02E07)

 

Illusion (S02E06)

 

Forgiveness (S02E05)

  more episodes (3)
 

Weeds

 

Five Miles From Yetzer Hara (S08E08)

 

Unfreeze (S08E07)

 

Allosaurus Crush Castle (S08E06)

  more episodes (5)
2011

Weeds

 

Do Her/Don't Do Her (S07E13)

 

Qualitative Spatial Reasoning (S07E12)

 

Fingers-Only Meat Banquet (S07E05)

  more episodes (2)
2010

Weeds

 

To Moscow, and Quickly (S06E09)

2009

Weeds

 

Su-Su-Sucio (S05E03)

 

Machetes Up Top (S05E02)

2001

Frasier

 

The Two Hundredth (S09E08)

1999

Spawn

 

Hunter's Moon (S03E04)

 

Seed of the Hellspawn (S03E03)

 

Superman: The Animated Series

 

Absolute Power (S03E06)

1998

Hercules

 

King of the Hill

 

I Remember Mono (S02E14)

1978

CBS Afternoon Playhouse

Documentaries
2019

QT8: The First Eight

 

Sid & Judy

2008

Speechless (TV movie)

2005

The Machinist: Breaking the Rules

2002

Searching for Debra Winger

 

The Making of 'Road to Perdition' (TV movie)

2001

Anatomy of a Scene (series)

1999

VH-1 Where Are They Now? (series)

1997

Cinema Cinema

 

On the Set of 'Washington Square' (TV movie)

 

The Directors (series)

1994

Would You Kindly Direct Me to Hell?: The Infamous Dorothy Parker (TV movie)

1993

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman In Carver Country

1990

Moving Pictures (series)

1983

The Making of 'Easy Money' (TV movie)

Music videos
1999

Who Cares a Lot?: The Greatest Videos

1997

Faith No More - Last Cup of Sorrow

Short
1997

Agnieszka Holland On the Set (TV movie)

Producer

Director

Movies
2001

The Anniversary Party

Screenwriter

Movies
2001

The Anniversary Party

Performer