Janet Leigh
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Female
Birthday 1927-07-06
Deathday 2004-10-03 (77 years old)
Place of Birth Merced, California, USA
Also Known As Jeanette Helen Morrison
Janet Leigh
Biography
Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and author. Her career spanned over five decades. Raised in Stockton, California, by working-class parents, Leigh was discovered at 18 by actress Norma Shearer, who helped her secure a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Leigh appeared in radio programs before her first formal foray into acting, making her film debut in the drama The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947). With MGM, she appeared in many films which spanned a wide variety of genres, which include the crime-drama Act of Violence (1948), the drama Little Women (1949), the comedy Angels in the Outfield (1951), the romance Scaramouche (1952) and the western drama The Naked Spur (1953). She played dramatic roles during the late 1950s, in such films as Safari (1956) and Orson Welles's film noir Touch of Evil (1958). With RKO Radio pictures she co-starred in the romantic comedy Holiday Affair (1949) with Robert Mitchum. Leigh achieved her biggest success starring as Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Psycho (1960). For her performance, Leigh won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Intermittently, she continued to appear in films, including Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Harper (1966), Night of the Lepus (1972), and Boardwalk (1979). She made her Broadway debut in 1975 in a production of Murder Among Friends. She would also go on to appear in two horror films with her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis: The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998). In addition to her work as an actress, Leigh also wrote four books between 1984 and 2002, two of which were novels. Leigh had two brief marriages as a teenager (one of which was annulled) before marrying actor Tony Curtis in 1951. The pair's highly publicized union ended in divorce in 1962, and after starring in The Manchurian Candidate that same year, Leigh remarried and scaled back her career. She died in October 2004 at age 77, following a year-long battle with vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels. Description above from the Wikipedia article Janet Leigh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as (archive footage)
as Marion Crane
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Marion Crane (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Mrs. Witt
as Self
as Self
as Herself
as Self
as Self
as Self (uncredited)
as Mary Sawyer
as Norma Watson
as Kay Connor
as Self
as Interviewee
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Himself
as Vera King
as Marion Crane (archive footage)
as The egg (voice) (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Cornelia Montaigne Harper
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self
as Kathy Williams
as Self
as Florence Cohen
as Millie Gorman
as (archive footage)
as Joan Stackpole
as Elaine Cotten
as Karen Weese
as Joan Philipps / Gail
as Laura Talbot
as Gerry Bennett
as Gert Meredith
as Self (archive footage)
as Carol
as Laurel Hanley
as Grace Wheeler Willis
as Marian Ord
as Sandra Latham
as Janice Barnes
as Vivian Miller
as Mary Ann
as Miss Diketon
as Self
as Cherry McMahon
as Dr Elizabeth Acord
as Susan Harper
as Nora
as Self - Host
as Bertie Austin
as Rosie DeLeon
as Eugenie Rose Chaney
as Janet Leigh
as Marion Crane
as Ann Wilson
as Self
as Lt. Vicki Loren
as Morgana
as Susan 'Susie' Vargas
as Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief
as Linda Latham
as Janet
as Self
as Eileen Sherwood
as Ivy Conrad
as Self / Marion Crane
as Self
as Karen Stephanson
as Lady Anne of Mackworth
as Wally Cook
as Princess Aleta
as Chris Hall
as Bess Houdini
as Connie Bedloe
as Lina Patch
as Self
as Abby Ames
as Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon
as Lucy Duncan
as Self
as Rosa Szabo Xenophon
as Nancy Peterson
as Jennifer Paige
as Isabelle Perry
as Self
as Self - Mystery Guest
as Self - Panelist
as Connie Ennis
as June Forsyte
as Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen
as Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon
as Meg
as Edith Enley
as Dorothy Feiner
as Margit Mitchell
as Self
as Effie Bright
as Lissy Anne MacBean
Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer