Jennifer Jason Leigh Net Worth, Age, Height, Bio, Birthday, Wiki!

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In 1982, Leigh played a teenager who gets pregnant in the Cameron Crowe-scripted high school comedy film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which served as a launching pad for several of its young stars. While decrying the writing as sexist and exploitative, film critic Roger Ebert was enthusiastic about the acting, singling out Leigh and writing, “Don’t they know they have a star on their hands?” With the exception of Ridgemont High and a supporting role in the 1983 comedy film Easy Money alongside Rodney Dangerfield, Leigh’s early film work consisted of playing fragile, damaged or neurotic characters in low-budget horror or thriller genre films. She played a virginal princess kidnapped and raped by mercenaries in Flesh + Blood (1985), an innocent waitress pursued by the psychopathic title character in The Hitcher (1986) (both films pitting her alongside Rutger Hauer), and a young woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown in Heart of Midnight (1989).

Leigh was awarded the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain at the 1993 MTV Movie Awards and nominated for Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress. Leigh co-starred with Kathy Bates as a tormented, pill-popping woman hiding a history of childhood sexual abuse in the adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Dolores Claiborne (1995). Leigh achieved her greatest acclaim in the role of Sadie Flood, an angry, drug-addicted rock singer living in the shadow of her successful older sister (Mare Winningham), in Georgia (1995). For the role, Leigh dropped to 90 pounds (41 kg) and sang all of her songs live, including a rambling 81 / 2 -minute version of Van Morrison’s “Take Me Back”. Georgia was met with critical praise. James Berardinelli wrote, “There are times when it’s uncomfortable to watch this performance because it’s so powerful”, and Janet Maslin of The New York Times described Leigh’s “fierce, risk-taking performance and flashes of overwhelming honesty”.

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