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Born · July 6, 1927
Died · October 3, 2004 (77 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Merced, California, USA
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Janet Leigh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Self (archive footage)
9.0
2022
Self
6.9
2021
(archive footage)
0.0
2019
Marion Crane
0.0
2017
Self (archive footage)
7.3
2017
Self (archive footage)
7.0
2014
Marion Crane (archive footage) · (1 episode)
6.4
2012
Self (archive footage)
7.0
2010
Self
7.5
2005
Mrs. Witt
3.8
2005
Self
5.8
2002
Self
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2000
Self
6.9
2000
Self
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2000
Herself
5.8
2000
Self
0.0
1999
Self
8.4
1999
Self (uncredited)
6.8
1999
Mary Sawyer · (1 episode)
8.2
1999
Self
0.0
1999
Norma Watson
6.0
1998
Kay Connor
5.0
1997
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
1997
(3 episodes)
8.0
1996
Interviewee
6.0
1996
Self
6.0
1995
Self
5.0
1995
Vera King · (1 episode)
7.2
1994
Self
0.0
1994
Himself
0.0
1994
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
4.5
1993
Self · (1 episode)
4.5
1993
Marion Crane (archive footage)
4.0
1993
The egg (voice) (archive footage)
7.0
1993
Self
7.5
1986
(1 episode)
7.7
1985
Self
8.0
1985
Cornelia Montaigne Harper · (1 episode)
7.5
1984
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
6.5
1983
(1 episode)
6.2
1982
Self
6.5
1982
Kathy Williams
6.7
1980
Self
4.8
1980
Florence Cohen
6.2
1979
Millie Gorman
0.0
1979
Joan Stackpole · (1 episode)
6.7
1979
(archive footage)
6.0
1979
Elaine Cotten
5.0
1977
Joan Philipps / Gail · (2 episodes)
6.3
1977
Karen Weese
7.0
1977
Self · (1 episode)
6.3
1973
Laura Talbot
6.0
1973
Gerry Bennett
4.4
1972
Carol · (1 episode)
7.1
1972
Gert Meredith
5.2
1972
Self (archive footage)
6.0
1972
Laurel Hanley
6.0
1971
Grace Wheeler Willis · (1 episode)
8.1
1971
Marian Ord
6.0
1970
Sandra Latham
6.5
1969
Janice Barnes
7.5
1969
Vivian Miller
5.9
1969
Mary Ann
7.1
1967
Self · (3 episodes)
6.4
1967
Miss Diketon
6.5
1967
Cherry McMahon
4.6
1966
Dr Elizabeth Acord
5.4
1966
Susan Harper
6.7
1966
Nora
0.0
1966
0.0
1965
Self - Host · (1 episode)
4.5
1964
(2 episodes)
5.5
1963
Bertie Austin
4.6
1963
Rosie DeLeon
5.9
1963
Eugenie Rose Chaney
7.5
1962
Self · (2 episodes)
7.4
1962
Janet Leigh
6.1
1960
Marion Crane
8.4
1960
Ann Wilson
6.2
1960
Self
4.6
1960
Lt. Vicki Loren
7.1
1958
Morgana
7.0
1958
Susan 'Susie' Vargas
7.8
1958
Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief
5.5
1957
Linda Latham
5.6
1956
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1956
Janet
0.0
1956
Self / Marion Crane · (1 episode)
7.7
1955
Eileen Sherwood
6.5
1955
Ivy Conrad
6.1
1955
Self
8.0
1954
Karen Stephanson
5.3
1954
Lady Anne of Mackworth
6.2
1954
Wally Cook
6.4
1954
Princess Aleta
5.9
1954
Chris Hall
9.0
1953
Bess Houdini
6.5
1953
Self · (3 episodes)
7.0
1953
Connie Bedloe
5.3
1953
Lina Patch
6.9
1953
Self · (1 episode)
6.6
1952
Abby Ames
4.6
1952
Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon
7.1
1952
Lucy Duncan
3.8
1952
0.0
1952
0.0
1952
Rosa Szabo Xenophon
5.3
1951
Nancy Peterson
4.3
1951
Jennifer Paige
6.6
1951
(1 episode)
7.0
1951
Isabelle Perry
5.2
1951
0.0
1951
Self · (3 episodes)
7.0
1950
Self - Mystery Guest · (3 episodes)
6.7
1950
Self - Panelist · (1 episode)
6.7
1950
Connie Ennis
6.8
1949
June Forsyte
5.7
1949
Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen
6.3
1949
Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon
6.0
1949
Meg
7.4
1949
Edith Enley
6.9
1949
0.0
1949
Dorothy Feiner
5.7
1948
Margit Mitchell
6.7
1948
Self · (1 episode)
6.6
1948
Effie Bright
6.6
1947
Lissy Anne MacBean
6.6
1947