Jennifer Jason Leigh (born February 5, 1962) is an American actress.
Early life and career
Jennifer Jason Leigh was born
Jennifer L. Morrow in
Hollywood,
Los Angeles,
California, the daughter of
Combat! actor
Vic Morrow and
Pollock screenwriter
Barbara Turner.
Both of Leigh's parents were
Jewish, although Leigh was raised mostly without religion.
Leigh changed her last name, taking the middle name "Jason" in honor of a family friend,
Academy Award-winning actor
Jason Robards.
At the age of 14, she attended
Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in
Loch Sheldrake, New York and summer acting workshops given by
Lee Strasberg. She received her
Screen Actors Guild membership in an episode of the TV show
Baretta when she was 16.
