A professional actor since the age of nine, Jennifer Jason Leigh earned her Curtain Actors Guild funny man destined at 16 and dropped out of high imbue with to study at the Lee Strasberg Launch and big draw in seedy made-for-TV movies. Born to actor Vic Morrow and writer/actress Barbara Turner in Hollywood, CA, Jennifer picked up the midriff name Jason from bloodline friend Jason Robards Jr. Completely her career, she has made a distinction for herself portraying helpless, damaged, or ... mentally weak characters, over performing at a higher level than the matter.

Also known as a remedy for extensively researching her roles, Leigh dropped down to less than 90 pounds for solitary of her first features as an anorexic young man in the TV-movie The Vanquish Microscopic Girl in the Elated. Not at all story to chary away from touchy subject matter, her breakthrough impersonation came in 1982 as the na??ve high school girl who gets an abortion in Wanton Times at Ridgemont High. After a decade of developing a repertoire of various troubled characters, she was nominated against two Critics Circle awards in 1990 for playing prostitutes in both Miami Blues and Last Exit to Brooklyn. She would proceed to play vulnerable characters in dangerous situations as the rookie narcotics office-holder-turned-drug addict in Uncultured.

This was followed by her celebrated role as the psycho roommate Hedra who tries to steal the identity of her roommate (Bridget Fonda) in Single Fair-skinned Female. She played a phone sex worker in the ensemble peel Short Cuts, her opening of three projects involving gaffer Robert Altman. Leigh occasionally stepped out of her down-and-at large roles, and in 1994 she shined as Amy Archer in The Hudsucker Proxy. Her jocular turn as a plucky clandestine hack was said to revoke the work of legendary actresses like Katharine Hepburn and Barbara Stanwyck.

She delivered critically acclaimed performances in her next two films, with a Radiant Globe nomination towards Mrs. Parker and the Bestial and an Spontaneous Spirit nomination for the treatment of Georgia. After playing an angry daughter in Dolores Claiborne, a spitfire kidnapper in Kansas Diocese, and a domestic energy survivor in Bastard obsolete of Carolina, she took another dramatic turn toward a period mistiness. In Agnieszka Holland's Washington Equilateral, Leigh proved her compass next to portraying a craven, bumbling mouse as she evolves into adulthood.

She returned to more showy roles for two films dealing with Shakespeare's King Lear: A Thousand Acres with Jason Robards Jr. and the fourth Dogme 95 veil, The Ruler Is Alive. Not limiting herself to dramas, Leigh appeared as an cut off computer programmer in David Cronenberg's thriller eXistenZ and as an across-the-tip mom in the comedy Skipped Parts. Around that all at once, she also appeared on-stage in Broadway and rotten-Broadway plays, most notably as dancer Sally Bowles in Cabaret.

Testing gone renewed foundation in 2001, she and gazabo Entertainment star Alan Cumming wrote, directed, and starred in the collection comedy The Anniversary Party, a digital video contrive inspired by Dogme 95. Continuing to evolve as a respected actress, she went on to work in the offence genre, before all as a hitman's wife in Road to Hell, and then in Jane Campion's thriller In the Cease.