• Name: Jennifer Jason Leigh
  
• Birth Name: Jennifer Lee Morrow
  
• Height: 5' 3"
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: February 5, 1962
  
• Birth Place: Hollywood, California, USA
  
• Profession: actress, producer
  
• Education: Pacific Palisades High School (dropped out)
  
•   : Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles, CA.
  
• Relationship: Jason Patric (actor), Eric Stoltz (actor; dated in 1988)
  
• Father: Vic Morrow (actor; born on February 14, 1929; divorced in 1964; died on July 23, 1982 in controversial helicopter accident on the set of Twilight Zone - The Movie)
  
• Mother: Barbara Turner (writer)
  
• Sister: Carrie Ann Morrow (drug counselor)
  
• Half Sister: Mina Badie (actress)
  
• Step Father: Reza Badiyi (director; born on April 17, 1936)
  
• Claim to fame: as Casey Powell in TV Series: The Best Little Girl In The World (1981)
  

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• "I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore."
• "As an actor, I want to blur everything, fact and fantasy. That’s why I want to keep my real life private — that way you come with as few expectations and as little known as possible, so you can believe what you are seeing."
• On the name Jason: "I like the way it sounds between Jennifer and Leigh"
• After she quit smoking, on looking at scripts: "If the character smoked, I'd immediately think it was a pretty good script."
• "I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me."

• Taormina International Film Festival: Diamond Award (2001)
• Tokyo International Film Festival: Best Actress Award, THE KING IS ALIVE (2000)
• Verona Love Screens Film Festival: Best Actress, A THOUSAND ACRES (1999)
• Chicago Film Critics Association Awards: Best Actress, MRS. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE (1995)
• National Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Actress, MRS. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE (1995)
• Montréal World Film Festival: Best Actress, GEORGIA (1995)
• New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Actress, GEORGIA (1995)
• Golden Globe Awards: Special Award - Best Ensemble Cast, SHORT CUTS (1994)
• MTV Movie Award: Best Villain, SINGLE WHITE FEMALE (1993)
• Venice Film Festival: Best Ensemble Cast, SHORT CUTS (1993)
• Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Supporting Actress, MIAMI BLUES (1991)
• New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Supporting Actress, MIAMI BLUES (1990)

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