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 In 1998, she appeared alongside Campbell Scott in the Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie "The Love Letter". In David Cronenberg's "eXistenZ" (1999), she played a virtual reality game designer who becomes lost in her own creation. Leigh had a brief role as a doomed gangster's wife in Sam Mendes's "Road to Perdition" (2002) and costarred as Meg Ryan's brutally murdered sister in Jane Campion's erotic thriller "In the Cut" (2003). After a long period of avoiding prostitute roles, she played alongside Christian Bale as his prostitute girlfriend in the thriller "The Machinist" (2004). Mick LaSalle of the "San Francisco