Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and author. Her career spanned over five decades. Raised in Stockton, California, by working-class parents, Leigh was discovered at 18 by actress Norma Shearer, who helped her secure a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Leigh appeared in radio programs before her first formal foray into acting, making her film debut in the drama The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947). With MGM, she appeared in many films which spanned a wide variety of genres, which include the crime-drama Act of Violence (1948), the drama Little Women (1949), the comedy Angels in the Outfield (1951), the romance Scaramouche (1952) and the western drama The Naked Spur (1953). She played dramatic roles during the late 1950s, in such films as Safari (1956) and Orson Welles's film noir Touch of Evil (1958). With RKO Radio pictures she co-starred in the romantic comedy Holiday Affair (1949) with Robert Mitchum.
Leigh achieved her biggest success starring as Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Psycho (1960). For her performance, Leigh won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Intermittently, she continued to appear in films, including Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Harper (1966), Night of the Lepus (1972), and Boardwalk (1979). She made her Broadway debut in 1975 in a production of Murder Among Friends. She would also go on to appear in two horror films with her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis: The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998).
In addition to her work as an actress, Leigh also wrote four books between 1984 and 2002, two of which were novels. Leigh had two brief marriages as a teenager (one of which was annulled) before marrying actor Tony Curtis in 1951. The pair's highly publicized union ended in divorce in 1962, and after starring in The Manchurian Candidate that same year, Leigh remarried and scaled back her career. She died in October 2004 at age 77, following a year-long battle with vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels.
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Gender
Female
Birthday
1927-07-06
Place of birth
Merced, California, USA
The Manchurian Candidate
1962
7.53
Psycho
1960
8.42
Touch of Evil
1958
7.75
The Fog
1980
6.72
The Naked Spur
1953
6.90
Rogue Cop
1954
5.30
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998
6.00
The Black Shield of Falworth
1954
6.20
Holiday Affair
1949
6.80
Bye Bye Birdie
1963
5.90
Harper
1966
6.70
Act of Violence
1949
6.90
Scaramouche
1952
7.10
The Horror Show
1979
4.33
Hello Down There
1969
5.90
The Red Danube
1949
6.30
The Vikings
1958
7.10
People, Hopes, Medals
1960
4.60
Pete Kelly's Blues
1955
6.10
My Sister Eileen
1955
6.50
That Forsyte Woman
1949
5.90
Houdini
1953
6.48
Little Women
1949
7.40
Psycho Tom
2017
0.00
Mirror, Mirror
1979
0.00
Angels in the Outfield
1951
6.70
Night of the Lepus
1972
4.40
Three on a Couch
1966
5.40
Prince Valiant
1954
5.90
Safari
1956
5.60
24 Hour Psycho
1993
4.00
Pepe
1960
6.20
It's a Big Country
1951
5.30
Jet Pilot
1957
5.40
One Is a Lonely Number
1972
5.20
The American Nightmare
2000
7.00
Grand Slam
1967
7.10
The Doctor and the Girl
1949
5.70
The Making of 'Psycho'
2005
7.50
Kid Rodelo
1966
0.00
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
2000
0.00
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
6.00
Who Was That Lady?
1960
6.20
Hills of Home
1948
6.70
Two Tickets to Broadway
1951
4.30
An American Dream
1966
4.60
The Story of Lassie
1994
0.00
If Winter Comes
1947
6.60
Boardwalk
1979
6.20
Wives and Lovers
1963
4.60
Honeymoon with a Stranger
1969
6.50
The Monk
1969
7.50
The Deadly Dream
1971
6.00
Strictly Dishonorable
1951
5.20
The Perfect Furlough
1958
6.70
Fearless Fagan
1952
4.60
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947
6.60
Walking My Baby Back Home
1953
9.00
Bad Girls from Valley High
2005
3.90
The Spy in the Green Hat
1967
6.50
House on Greenapple Road
1970
6.00
Rat Pack: A Conference of Cool
1999
0.00
Confidentially Connie
1953
5.30
Words and Music
1948
5.70
Just This Once
1952
3.80
Rat Pack
2022
9.00
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
1995
5.00
Telethon
1977
5.00
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
8.00
Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius
1999
8.40
Living It Up
1954
6.40
The Psycho Legacy
2010
6.86
Murder at the World Series
1977
6.50
A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954
8.00
In My Sister's Shadow
1997
5.00
Come Back Little Shiksa
1952
0.00
Fairfax Avenue
1951
0.00
An Eye for an Eye
1952
0.00
Nightmare
1956
0.00
78/52
2017
7.25
The Egg
1993
7.00
Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog'
1980
4.80
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
6.99
Murdock's Gang
1973
6.00
Inside the Dream Factory
1995
6.00
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
2021
7.11
Night of 100 Stars
1982
6.67
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
1994
0.00
Bob Hope Christmas Show
1965
0.00
Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood
1954
0.00
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
7.50
Psycho II
1983
6.48