• Name: Jennifer Tilly
  
• Birth Name: Jennifer E. Chan
  
• Height: 5' 4"
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: September 16, 1958
  
• Birth Place: Harbor City, California
  
• Profession: actress
  
• Education: Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri (majored in drama)
  
• Husband/Wife: Sam Simon (producer; divorced in 1991)
  
• Father: Harry (a car salesman) - divorced
  
• Mother: Patricia Tilly (a teacher)
  
• Sister: Rebecca and Meg (Tilly is one of 9 children)
  
• Step Father: John Ward, whom Tilly describes as a hippy and religious fanatic
  
• Claim to fame: as Blanche Monica Moran in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
  

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• "Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!"
• "I love doing theater because of the challenge of it."
• "A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows--faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double."
• "Spending time with Jim on a stage is an incredibly weird experience! I found myself unable to act seriously! Hard to shoot with the master of comedy!"
• "I still haven't made a film that defines who I am."
• "If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now".
• "I was the most popular person in my family. I was like a celebrity. All my sisters would fight over who got to sleep with me. I was always thinking up all the games, telling all the stories, and had the best clothes. I was the entertainment. We didn't have television and we didn't have movies, and I was always the boss. I'd write these plays and I'd make everybody be in them. Once, I had this idea that we'd put all the beds on top of one another so there would be only one bed, but it would be a really big, tall bed. Then we'd take turns sleeping on that bed while everybody else slept on the floor. Like, for a month. Everyone thought that was a great idea. I don't know why. I guess because we grew up way, way out in the country and we never had any neighbors."
• On her curves and her frequent cleavage baring characters; "People are always accusing me of having implants."

• Blockbuster Entertainment Awards: Favorite Supporting Actress - Comedy, LIAR LIAR (1998)
• Fantasporto: International Fantasy Film Award - Best Actress, BOUND (1997)

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