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Janet Leigh
🎂 Jul 6, 1927 — 🕯️ Oct 3, 2004 (77 years)
Merced, California, USA Top 500
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.
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Janet Leigh?
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77 R.I.P.
R.I.P.
1 nom.
Oscars
55
Movies
10
Series
Movies
Psycho
1960
The Manchurian Candidate
1962
Angels in the Outfield
1951
The Fog
1980
Touch of Evil
1958
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998
The Vikings
1958
Harper
1966
Safari
1956
Psycho II
1983
Living It Up
1954
Pepe
1960
Little Women
1949
Bye Bye Birdie
1963
Act of Violence
1949
The Naked Spur
1953
Night of the Lepus
1972
Scaramouche
1952
Words and Music
1948
Hello Down There
1969
An American Dream
1966
Grand Slam
1967
That Forsyte Woman
1949
Houdini
1953
Prince Valiant
1954
The Perfect Furlough
1958
Holiday Affair
1949
It's a Big Country
1951
My Sister Eileen
1955
Jet Pilot
1957
Rogue Cop
1954
Wives and Lovers
1963
Who Was That Lady?
1960
Two Tickets to Broadway
1951
The Red Danube
1949
Three on a Couch
1966
Bad Girls from Valley High
2005
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947
The Black Shield of Falworth
1954
Confidentially Connie
1953
If Winter Comes
1947
Just This Once
1952
The Spy in the Green Hat
1967
One Is a Lonely Number
1972
Fearless Fagan
1952
Strictly Dishonorable
1951
Hills of Home
1948
Pete Kelly's Blues
1955
The Doctor and the Girl
1949
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Janet Leigh
1927-07-06 · Merced, California, USA
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.