Jennifer Jason Leigh (born February 5, 1962) is an American film and stage actress, best known for her roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Single White Female, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Georgia and Short Cuts. She is the daughter of actor Vic Morrow and screenwriter Barbara Turner. Leigh also has a half-sister actress Mina Badie, from her mother’s marriage, who acted alongside Leigh in The Anniversary Party. Leigh was then cast in her first mainstream Hollywood studio film, the firefighter drama Backdraft, in which she played a somewhat more conventional role as the girlfriend of lead actor William Baldwin. Leigh reportedly told director Ron Howard that she wished that she could be the fire because it had the film’s best role. in subsequent interviews, Leigh has stated that the role is her least favorite performance: “In mainstream movies, the woman’s role is mostly just to prove that the leading man is heterosexual. in a change of pace from her “bad girl” roles, Leigh played the fast-talking reporter Amy Archer in the Coen Brothers’ comic homage to 1930s screwball comedy The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), modeling her performance and speaking style on the early work of Katharine Hepburn.

Jennifer Jason Leigh (born February 5, 1962) is an American film and stage actress, best known for her roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Single White Female, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Georgia and Short Cuts. She is also the co-writer and co-director of the film The Anniversary Party, made with fellow actor Alan Cumming. She is the daughter of actor Vic Morrow and screenwriter Barbara Turner. Leigh’s birth name was Jennifer Leigh Morrow.

Jennifer Aniston’s Love Life Keeps Getting Hotter! Jennifer Aniston and new beau, Justin Theroux were spotted on a double date with Arrested Development’s Jason Bateman and wife, Amanda Anka at New York hot spot Il Cantinori.The cute couples spent the night discussing tattoos, and at one point Justin actually lifted his shirt to show off his torso ink. Sexy! As we told [...] [link]