Jennifer Jason Leigh - biography
Biography
Jennifer Jason Leigh is best-known for the following films:
Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes
“I’m a typical middle child. I’m the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody’s happy. It’s hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.”“I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.”
“I’d much rather be in a movie that people have really strong feelings about than one that makes a hundred million dollars but you can’t remember because it’s just like all the others.”
“I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don’t have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.”
“I love being in therapy. It’s just constantly fulfilling for me.”
“I just don’t plan things. I live a month at a time.”
“I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.”
“Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I’ve never been happier.”
Filmography
The Actor
Jennifer Jason Leigh has appeared in the following films:Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Wrong Is Right (1982)
Easy Money (1983)
Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
The Men’s Club (1986)
Heart of Midnight (1988)
The Big Picture (1989)
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
Miami Blues (1990)
Backdraft (1991)
Crooked Hearts (1991)
Single White Female (1992)
Short Cuts (1993)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Kansas City (1996)
Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
Washington Square (1997)
A Thousand Acres (1997)
eXistenZ (1999)
The King Is Alive (2000)
The Wonder of Sex (2000)
The Anniversary Party (2001)
The Quickie (2001)
Road to Perdition (2002)
In the Cut (2003)
El maquinista (2004)
The Machinist (2004)
Childstar (2004)
Rag Tale (2005)
The Jacket (2005)
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
The Film Director
Jennifer Jason Leigh directed the following films:The Anniversary Party (2001)
The Writer
Jennifer Jason Leigh contributed to the screenplay for the following films:The Anniversary Party (2001)
Greenberg (2010)



