Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States Executive summary:Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Though her mother tried to talk her out of it, Leigh started taking acting lessons at 14 and, coming from a show business family, she had little trouble getting into film. She won early acclaim as an anorexic in a TV movie, and became famous in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. While that movie was still in first run theaters and getting generally good reviews, her father Vic Morrow was killed by a helecopter filming the Twilight Zone movie. At her mother's house the next night, Leigh and the rest of the family paid their respects by watching Morrow's The Blackboard Jungle.
Robert Altman directed her in two of her best films, Short Cuts and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. She usually appears in small, independent films as opposed to multiplex blockbusters, but her few truly mainstream movies include Single White Female, Road to Perdition, and Stephen King's Dolores Claiborne. Leigh memorably directed herself and an all-star cast in the Hollywood drawing room drama The Anniversary Party, co-starring, co-written, and co-directed by Alan Cumming. They played husband and wife believably, but were never romantically linked in real life.
Leigh's mother, Barbara Turner, is an accomplished screenwriter, and wrote Leigh's Georgia. Her stepfather, Reza Badiyi, was a TV director for decades in a career stretching from Get Smart to She Spies. He was also good buddies with film director Robert Altman. Leigh's on-screen middle name, Jason, is an homage to family friend Jason Robards.
Father:Vic Morrow (actor, m. 1957, div. from Turner in 1964) Mother: Barbara Turner (screenwriter, Pollock, div. 1964) Father: Reza Badiyi (stepfather, TV director, Get Smart, b. 17-Apr-1930, m. 1968, div. 1985) Sister: Carrie Ann Morrow (drug counselor) Sister: Mina Badie (half-sister, actress, Roger Dodger, ) Boyfriend:David Dukes (actor, b. 1945, cohabited early 1980s, d. 2000) Boyfriend:Eric Stoltz (together 1985-89) Boyfriend:Jason Patric Husband:Noah Baumbach (filmmaker, together since 2001, m. 3-Sep-2005, sep. 2010) Son: Rohmer (b. 17-Mar-2010)
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AKA Jennifer Lee Morrow