Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh (born Jennifer Leigh Morrow; February 5, 1962) is an American actress. She began her career on television during the 1970s before making her film breakthrough in the teen film Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). She received critical praise for her performances in Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989), Miami Blues (1990), Backdraft (1991), Single White Female (1992), and The Hudsucker Proxy (1994). She was nominated for a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Dorothy Parker in Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994).

Leigh starred in a 1995 film written by her mother, screenwriter Barbara Turner, titled Georgia. She co-wrote and co-directed a film with Alan Cumming titled The Anniversary Party (2001). Leigh starred in the crime drama Road to Perdition (2002) and the family drama Margot at the Wedding (2007). She had a recurring role on the Showtime comedy-drama series Weeds (2009–2012). She received critical acclaim for her voice work in Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa (2015). For her role as fugitive Daisy Domergue in The Hateful Eight (2015), she was nominated for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. From 2017 to 2021, she starred in the Netflix comedy-drama series Atypical while featuring in the science fiction films Annihilation (2018) and Possessor (2020). She has since starred in the fifth season of the crime drama series Fargo (2023).

For her stage work, Leigh was nominated for a Drama Desk award for her off-Broadway performance as Beverly Moss in Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party. Her Broadway debut occurred in 1998 when she became the replacement for the role of Sally Bowles in the musical Cabaret.

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Jennifer Jason Leigh Movies

Discover the best Jennifer Jason Leigh movies. Explore the complete filmography, including top-rated classics, newest releases, and highest-grossing films starring Jennifer Jason Leigh ranked by year and score.

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Crime 101 (2026)

Crime Thriller
Los Angeles hums beneath the 101 freeway, and somewhere in that sprawl, a seasoned thief has been running his game for years, hitting targets with precision and disappearing clean. One...
Score 6.9
2

The Woman in the Window (2021)

Crime Mystery Thriller
Trapped inside her Manhattan brownstone by crippling agoraphobia, Anna Fox fills her days watching old films and, eventually, watching the family that has just moved in across the street. When...
Score 6.0
3

Possessor (2020)

Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Tasya Vos works for a shadowy organization that kills through borrowed flesh. A neural implant lets her slip into strangers' bodies, pull the trigger, and vacate before anyone connects the...
Score 6.4
4

Annihilation (2018)

Horror Science Fiction
After her husband returns from a classified military mission changed beyond recognition, a biologist volunteers for the same assignment: a one-way trek into the Shimmer, an expanding coastal zone where...
Score 6.4
5

Kill Your Darlings (2013)

Drama Romance Thriller
Before Allen Ginsberg wrote a single line of the poetry that would define a generation, he arrived at Columbia University in 1944 and fell under the spell of a magnetic,...
Score 7.0
6

Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Drama
Caden Cotard is a theater director slowly losing his grip on everything: his health, his marriages, his sense of time. His response is to build an exact, ever-expanding replica of...
Score 7.5
7

Road to Perdition (2002)

Crime Drama Thriller
Mike Sullivan has spent years as an enforcer for John Rooney, the Irish mob patriarch he respects like a father. When his young son accidentally witnesses a murder, that loyalty...
Score 7.4
8

eXistenZ (1999)

Action Science Fiction Thriller
Game designer Allegra Geller has built the most immersive virtual reality system ever conceived, and someone wants her dead for it. Fleeing with a reluctant marketing trainee as her only...
Score 6.8
9

Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

Drama
Set in the hardscrabble rural South, Anney Boatwright is a young mother who has scraped through poverty and shame her whole life, and Glen feels like her one shot at...
Score 7.2
10

Dolores Claiborne (1995)

Crime Drama Mystery
Two decades after escaping a murder charge for her abusive husband's death, Dolores Claiborne finds herself accused again, this time of killing the wealthy, aging socialite she worked for on...
Score 7.3
11

Backdraft (1991)

Action Crime Drama
Brian and Stephen McCaffrey grew up watching their father die in the line of duty, and both became Chicago firefighters to honor that memory. The problem is they can barely...
Score 6.7
12

Flesh + Blood (1985)

Adventure Drama
In a plague-scarred medieval Europe where loyalty is bought and quickly broken, a ragged company of mercenaries turns on the nobleman who cheated them out of their pay. Their act...
Score 6.6
13

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

Comedy Drama Romance
Cameron Crowe spent a year undercover at a real California high school, and what he brought back reads like an anthropology field report that somehow got funny. The movie tracks...
Score 6.8

Jennifer Jason Leigh TV Shows

Browse the ultimate list of Jennifer Jason Leigh TV shows. Find top-rated television series, critically acclaimed dramas, and hit shows starring Jennifer Jason Leigh.

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Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen (2026)

Drama Mystery
Every wedding has its share of nerves, but what the bride in this slow-burn mystery feels goes far beyond cold feet. As her big day draws closer, a creeping dread...
Score 6.5
2

Hunters (2020)

Crime Drama
New York City, 1977. Beneath the grit and chaos of the era, a ragtag group of Nazi hunters makes a disturbing discovery: hundreds of former high-ranking SS officers have quietly...
Score 7.2
3

Atypical (2017)

Comedy Drama
Sam Gardner is eighteen, obsessed with Antarctica, and ready to figure out dating, even if the rules feel like they were written in a foreign language. As he pushes toward...
Score 8.1
4

Fargo (2014)

Crime Drama
Set across the frozen plains and small towns of Minnesota, Fargo is an anthology crime series that returns season after season with new characters, new crimes, and the same bleak...
Score 8.3

Frequently Asked Questions

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According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Jennifer Jason Leigh are Crime 101, The Woman in the Window, and Possessor.
How many movies and TV shows has Jennifer Jason Leigh starred in? +
Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 17 titles starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.
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Yes! The overall filmography starring Jennifer Jason Leigh maintains a strong average user rating of 7 out of 10 across all tracked titles.