Home >

Janet Leigh

Janet Leigh

Birthday: 1927-07-06 | Place of Birth: Merced, California, USA

Janet Leigh (July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004), born Jeanette Helen Morrison, was an American actress. She was the wife of actor Tony Curtis from June 1951 to September 1962 and the mother of Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis. Discovered by actress Norma Shearer, Leigh secured a contract with MGM and began her film career in the late 1940s. She appeared in several popular films over the following decade, including Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and Living It Up (a Martin and Lewis-film from 1954). From the end of the 1950s, she played more dramatic roles in such films as Safari (1958) Touch of Evil (1958) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962), but she achieved her most lasting recognition for her performance as the doomed Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). For this role she was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She continued to appear occasionally in films and television, including two performances with her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis in The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998). Description above from the Wikipedia article Janet Leigh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

...

Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2005
Bad Girls from Valley High

as    Mrs. Witt

2005
The Making of 'Psycho'

as    Self

2000
1999
1998
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

as    Norma Watson

1996
Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown

as    Interviewee

1972
Night of the Lepus

as    Gerry Bennett

1972
One Is a Lonely Number

as    Gert Meredith

1971
The Deadly Dream

as    Laurel Hanley

1970
House on Greenapple Road

as    Marian Ord

1969
The Monk

as    Janice Barnes

1969
Hello Down There

as    Vivian Miller

1967
Grand Slam

as    Mary Ann

1967
The Spy in the Green Hat

as    Miss Diketon

1966
Three on a Couch

as    Dr Elizabeth Acord

1966
Kid Rodelo

as    Nora

1966
Harper

as    Susan Harper

1963
Bye Bye Birdie

as    Rosie DeLeon

1962
The Manchurian Candidate

as    Eugenie Rose Chaney

1960
Who Was That Lady?

as    Ann Wilson

1960
Psycho

as    Marion Crane

1958
The Perfect Furlough

as    Lt. Vicki Loren

1958
The Vikings

as    Morgana

1957
Jet Pilot

as    Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief

1956
Safari

as    Linda Latham

1955
My Sister Eileen

as    Eileen Sherwood

1955
Pete Kelly's Blues

as    Ivy Conrad