She is the daughter of actor Vic Morrow and screenwriter Barbara Turner. Leigh’s birth name was Jennifer Leigh Morrow. She changed her surname early in her acting career, taking the middle name “Jason” in honor of the actor Jason Robards, a family friend. At 14, she attended Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in Loch Sheldrake, New York summer acting workshops given by Lee Strasberg and landed a role in the movie The Young Runaways (1978). Reviewers commented on Leigh’s raw emotionality and apparent lack of vanity in her performances, especially in Last Exit which controversially featured prolonged scenes of sexual violence.

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An episode of The Waltons and several TV movies followed, including a portrayal of an anorexic teenager in The Best Little Girl in the World, for which Leigh dropped to 86 pounds (39 kg) under medical supervision. in 1990, Leigh made a significant career breakthrough when she was voted the year’s Best Supporting Actress by both the New York Film Critics Circle and the Boston Society of Film Critics for her portrayals of two very different prostitutes: the tough streetwalker Tralala who submits to a brutal gang rape in Last Exit to Brooklyn, and Susie, a teenage prostitute who falls in love with ex-con Alec Baldwin in Miami Blues. Leigh reportedly told director Ron Howard that she wished that she could be the fire because it had the film’s best role. Her next film Single White Female (1992) was a surprise box office success, bringing Leigh to her largest yet mainstream audience. Georgia was met with universal critical praise, with Leigh’s performance hailed as one of the best of the year. Throughout the 1990s, Leigh showcased her versatility working with a number of acclaimed independent film directors.

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Leigh is known for her emotionally raw and often sexually explicit portrayals of vulnerable and damaged women, and for her intensive method inspired research into her roles. Leigh was born on 5 February 1962 in Hollywood, California. She is the daughter of actor Vic Morrow and screenwriter Barbara Turner. Leigh has an older sister, Carrie Ann Morrow, who was credited as a “technical advisor” in Georgia, and on whom the role of Sadie Flood was reputedly based. At 14, she attended Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in Loch Sheldrake, New York summer acting workshops given by Lee Strasberg and landed a role in the Disney TV movie The Young Runaways (1978). in 1982, she played a teenager who gets pregnant in the Cameron Crowe- scripted high school comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which served as a launching pad for several of its young stars, including Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold, Forest Whitaker, Eric Stoltz, Anthony Edwards, Phoebe Cates and Nicolas Cage. With the exception of Ridgemont High, Leigh’s early film work consisted of playing fragile, damaged, or neurotic characters in low-budget horror or thriller genre films. I’m not good at that, and I’m not interested in that.” Leigh found more success in the gritty crime drama Rush (1991), in which she portrayed an undercover narcotics policewoman who becomes a junkie in the line of duty in and falls in love with her partner Jason Patric.

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