# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jennifer-jason-leigh
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:58:26.746Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jennifer-jason-leigh"
name: "Jennifer Jason Leigh"
slug: "jennifer-jason-leigh"
description: "Jennifer Jason Leigh is an American actress. She began her career on television during the 1970s before making her film breakthrough in the teen film Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). She received critical praise for her performances in Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989), Miami Blues (1990), Backdraft (1991), Single White Female (1992), and The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her portrayal of Dorothy Parker in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994).\nFor her role as fugitive Daisy Domergue in The Hateful Eight (2015), she was nominated for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress."
tagline: "American actress (born 1962)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jennifer_Jason_Leigh_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1962-02-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6110594795539035
  historical:           30.289596
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump