Jennifer Jason Leigh

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Full Name: Jennifer Jason Leigh

Date of birth: February 05, 1962 (59 years old)

Location: Hollywood, Los Ángeles, California

Country: USA

Height: 5'2"

Jennifer Jason Leigh was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of writer Barbara Turner and actor Vic Morrow. Her father was of Russian Jewish descent and her mother was of Austrian Jewish ancestry. Jennifer's parents divorced when she was two. Jennifer worked in her first film at the age of nine, in a nonspeaking role for the film Death of a Stranger (Tod eines Fremden (1976)). At 14 she attended summer acting workshops given by Lee Strasberg and landed a role in the Disney TV movie Disneylandia. El mágico mundo del color: The Young Runaways (1978), and received her Screen Actors Guild membership in an episode of the TV series Baretta (1975) when she was 16. Jennifer performed in several TV movies and dropped out of Pacific Palisades High School six weeks short of graduation for her major role in the film Los ojos de un extraño (1981). Her first major success came as the female lead in Aquel 'excitante' curso (1982).

Jennifer Jason Leigh has been active for 38 years, participating in 21 movies that average a 6.7/10 score.