Jennifer Jason Leigh Jennifer Jason Leigh Jennifer Jason Leigh (born Jennifer Leigh Morrow; February 5, 1962) is an American actress. She began acting on television during the 1970s, guest-starring on several television shows. Her film breakthrough came in 1982 for her performance as Stacy Hamilton in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High". Leigh continued performing past her teen years, receiving critical praise for her roles in the 1990 films "Miami Blues" and "Last Exit to Brooklyn". In 1991, she appeared in Ron Howard's "Backdraft", and in 1992, she acted in the drama-thriller "Single White Female". In 1993, Leigh appeared in the ensemble film "Short
Jennifer Jason Leigh Brothers' comic homage to 1950s comedy, "The Hudsucker Proxy" (1994). Leigh took her first lead role as the writer and critic Dorothy Parker in Alan Rudolph's film "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" (1994). She received a Golden Globe Award nomination and a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress, as well as Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress and Fort Lauderdale Film Critics Best Actress Award. In another change of pace, she starred in Agnieszka Holland's version of the Henry James novel "Washington Square" (1997), as a mousy 19th-century heiress courted by a gold digger.