Janet Leigh
Birthday: 1927-07-06
Deathday: 2004-06-16
Birthplace: Merced, California, USA
Gender: Female
Drafted: 0
Drafted By: Unowned
Owned By: Unowned
Owned Wins: 0
Owned Noms: 0
Win Bonus: 0
Nom Bonus: 0
Total Points: 0
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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Career Statisics
| Season | Age | Movie | Role | Result | Points | |
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| 1961 | 34 | Psycho (1960) | Supporting Actress | Nom | 0 | |
| Career | 0 |
Transaction History
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Credits
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2017-11-06 | Psycho Tom | Marion Crane |
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2005-07-17 | Bad Girls from Valley High | Mrs. Witt |
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1998-08-05 | Halloween H20: 20 Years Later | Norma Watson |
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1997-11-12 | In My Sister's Shadow | Kay Connor |
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1996-08-18 | Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown | Interviewee |
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1980-02-07 | The Fog | Kathy Williams |
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1979-11-14 | Boardwalk | Florence Cohen |
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1979-10-10 | Mirror, Mirror | Millie Gorman |
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1977-11-06 | Telethon | Elaine Cotten |
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1977-03-20 | Murder at the World Series | Karen Weese |
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1973-03-20 | Murdock's Gang | Laura Talbot |
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1972-10-04 | Night of the Lepus | Gerry Bennett |
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1972-06-19 | One Is a Lonely Number | Gert Meredith |
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1971-09-25 | The Deadly Dream | Laurel Hanley |
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1970-01-11 | House on Greenapple Road | Marian Ord |
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1969-12-23 | Honeymoon with a Stranger | Sandra Latham |
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1969-10-22 | The Monk | Janice Barnes |
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1969-01-01 | Hello Down There | Vivian Miller |
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1967-09-28 | Grand Slam | Mary Ann |
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1967-02-03 | The Spy in the Green Hat | Miss Diketon |
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1966-08-31 | An American Dream | Cherry McMahon |
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1966-03-01 | Three on a Couch | Dr Elizabeth Acord |
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1966-02-22 | Harper | Susan Harper |
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1966-01-01 | Kid Rodelo | Nora |
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1963-08-29 | Wives and Lovers | Bertie Austin |
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1963-04-04 | Bye Bye Birdie | Rosie DeLeon |
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1962-10-24 | The Manchurian Candidate | Eugenie Rose Chaney |
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1960-12-21 | Pepe | Janet Leigh |
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1960-06-22 | Psycho | Marion Crane |
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1960-04-08 | Who Was That Lady? | Ann Wilson |
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1958-11-30 | The Perfect Furlough | Lt. Vicki Loren |
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1958-06-11 | The Vikings | Morgana |
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1958-03-30 | Touch of Evil | Susan 'Susie' Vargas |
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1957-10-11 | Jet Pilot | Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief |
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1956-06-20 | Safari | Linda Latham |
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1956-01-01 | Nightmare | Janet |
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1955-09-22 | My Sister Eileen | Eileen Sherwood |
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1955-07-31 | Pete Kelly's Blues | Ivy Conrad |
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1954-09-17 | Rogue Cop | Karen Stephanson |
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1954-09-02 | The Black Shield of Falworth | Lady Anne of Mackworth |
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1954-07-15 | Living It Up | Wally Cook |
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1954-04-05 | Prince Valiant | Princess Aleta |
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1953-12-06 | Walking My Baby Back Home | Chris Hall |
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1953-07-02 | Houdini | Bess Houdini |
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1953-03-12 | Confidentially Connie | Connie Bedloe |
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1953-01-30 | The Naked Spur | Lina Patch |
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1952-08-15 | Fearless Fagan | Abby Ames |
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1952-05-08 | Scaramouche | Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon |
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1952-02-27 | Just This Once | Lucy Duncan |
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1952-01-02 | An Eye for an Eye | |
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1952-01-01 | Come Back Little Shiksa | |
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1951-11-20 | It's a Big Country | Rosa Szabo Xenophon |
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1951-11-20 | Two Tickets to Broadway | Nancy Peterson |
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1951-10-19 | Angels in the Outfield | Jennifer Paige |
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1951-07-03 | Strictly Dishonorable | Isabelle Perry |
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1951-01-01 | Fairfax Avenue | |
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1949-12-12 | Holiday Affair | Connie Ennis |
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1949-11-03 | That Forsyte Woman | June Forsyte |
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1949-10-14 | The Red Danube | Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen |
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1949-09-29 | The Doctor and the Girl | Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon |
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1949-03-10 | Little Women | Meg |
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1949-01-22 | Act of Violence | Edith Enley |
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1949-01-01 | How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border | |
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1948-12-31 | Words and Music | Dorothy Feiner |
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1948-11-25 | Hills of Home | Margit Mitchell |
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1947-12-31 | If Winter Comes | Effie Bright |
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1947-08-04 | The Romance of Rosy Ridge | Lissy Anne MacBean |