Jennifer jason leigh, known for broad roles in films like “Fast times at Ridgemont High,” ‘Single White Female’ and ‘The Hateful Eight’ were seen in Los Angeles last week as she looked casual while running errands.
Leigh wore an orange sweatshirt and light blue jeans with sunglasses on her head and green sandals.
She also carried an orange thermos and two handbags as she walked to her car.
The actress starred in the Emmy-nominated fifth season of FX’s “Fargo” this year and has two films in the works, “Night Always Comes” and “Crime 101,” both star-studded thrillers due out next year, per Variety.
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“Fast Times at Ridgemont High” star Jennifer Jason Leigh was spotted in Los Angeles last week, a rare public sighting of the private star. (MEGA/GC images)
Leigh tends to remain private and out of the public eye, despite a prolific and critically acclaimed career that has its roots in a Hollywood family.
The 62-year-old is the daughter of screenwriter Barbara Turner and actor Vic Morrow, who died in an on-set accident while filming a segment in “The Twilight Zone Movie” in 1982.
Her parents separated when she was two years old, and Leigh told them The Guardian in 2018 that she and her father “weren’t close.”
“It’s hard,” she continued. “I don’t really talk about my father publicly because there are a lot of people who love him very much, love his work as an actor. I don’t want to deprive them of their admiration.”
Jennifer Jason Leigh and Vic Morrow (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin | US broadcasters)
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Leigh started her own career as a teen actor, making her film debut as a blind, deaf and mute girl in the 1981 slasher ‘Eyes of a Stranger’.
The following year, she landed her breakout role in 1982’s “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” launching a career that included a variety of roles in films such as “The Hitcher,” “Sister, Sister,” “Last Exit to Brooklyn” and ” Last Exit to Brooklyn’. Backdraft.”
Leigh became a breakout star opposite Phoebe Cates in 1982’s “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.” (Universal/Courtesy of Everett Collection)
One of her best-known roles came in the 1992 erotic thriller “Single White Female,” in which she played a disturbed young woman who becomes obsessed with her roommate. played by Bridget Fonda.
Leigh’s varied career continued, including an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress in “The Hateful Eight” alongside Kurt Russell and Samuel L. Jackson.
Leigh earned an Oscar nomination for her role in “The Hateful Eight,” directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Kurt Russell. (XAMAXullstein photo via Getty Images)
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While she earned praise and eventual nomination for her role in the film, Leigh credited her mother for her success.
“I have always admired my mother so much,” she said People magazine in 2016. “She is so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.”
She continued, “My mom always helped me because she was kind of a research buff. If she wrote a screenplay, there would be so much research on the wall. And so when I started working as an actress, I did the same thing. She brought me the love to take everything very seriously. It didn’t matter what it was.
Leigh credits her mother, center, for her success, saying, “I have always had so much admiration for my mother. She is so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.” (Scott Gries/ImageDirect)
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Since then, Leigh has taken on a wide range of roles, from Lady Bird Johnson in 2016’s “LBJ,” to a scientist in “Annihilation” to a role in the mystery comedy “Poolman,” written, directed and starring Chris Pine.
Leigh is also mother to son Rohmer with her ex-husband, writer-director Noah Baumbach.
