Jennifer Jason Leigh becomes a junkie and falls in love with her partner, played by Jason Patric. Her next film, "Single White Female" (1992), was a surprise box-office success, bringing Leigh to her largest mainstream audience yet, portraying a mentally ill woman who terrorizes roommate Bridget Fonda. Leigh was awarded the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain 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
Jennifer Jason Leigh "The Young Runaways" (1978). She also appeared in an episode of "Baretta" and an episode of "The Waltons". Several TV movies followed, including a portrayal of an anorexic teenager in "The Best Little Girl in the World", for which Leigh dropped to under medical supervision. She made her big screen debut playing a blind, deaf, and mute rape victim in the 1981 slasher film "Eyes of a Stranger", which she quit school to star in. In 1982, Leigh played a teenager who gets pregnant in the Cameron Crowe-scripted high school comedy movie "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", which served as