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Jennifer Jason Leigh
Jennifer Jason Leigh (born Jennifer Leigh Morrow; February 5, 1962) 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 (film), Last Exit to Brooklyn'' (1989), ''Miami Blues'' (1990), ''Backdraft (film), Backdraft'' (1991), ''Single White Female'' (1992), and ''The Hudsucker Proxy'' (1994), and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Golden Globe for her portrayal of Dorothy Parker in ''Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle'' (1994). Leigh starred in a 1995 film written by her mother, screenwriter Barbara Turner (screenwriter), Barbara Turner, titled ''Georgia (1995 film), Georgia''. She co-wrote and co-directed a film with Alan Cumming titled ''The Anniversary Party'' (2001). Leigh starred in the crime drama ''Road to Perdition'' (2002) and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the List of United States cities by population, second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an Ethnic groups in Los Angeles, ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a Metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot At The Wedding
''Margot at the Wedding'' is a 2007 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach. It stars Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black, John Turturro, and Ciarán Hinds. The film is about the familial storm that arises when Margot, a writer, comes to visit her sister Pauline on the eve of the latter's wedding. The film premiered at the 34th Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2007, and was released in the United States on December 7, 2007, by Paramount Vantage. Plot Margot is a successful, self-absorbed writer; it is suggested that she has borderline personality disorder. She brings her 11-year-old son Claude to spend a weekend visiting her free-spirited sister Pauline on the eve of the latter's wedding to Malcolm at their home on Long Island, New York. Margot disapproves of Pauline's choice of fiancé: Malcolm is an unsuccessful musician whom Margot considers "completely unattractive". While in town, Margot is interviewed in public in a local bookstor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fargo (TV Series)
''Fargo'' is an American black comedy-Crime film#Crime drama, crime drama television series created and primarily written by showrunner Noah Hawley. It is based on the Fargo (1996 film), 1996 film of the same name written and directed by Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan Coen. The Coens, whose other films also heavily influenced the series, were originally uninvolved with the series, but joined as executive producers after being impressed by Hawley's script for the Fargo season 1, first season. The series premiered on April 15, 2014, on FX (TV channel), FX. ''Fargo'' is an anthology series consisting of self-contained seasons, although they all share the same continuity (fiction), continuity as the film and feature minor overlaps. Five seasons of the show have been released between 2014 and 2024, each with a different setting, cast and characters; the time periods also largely vary, ranging from 1950 in Fargo season 4, season four to 2019 in Fargo season 5, season five, although they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fargo (season 5)
The fifth season of '' Fargo'', an American anthology black comedy crime drama television series created by Noah Hawley, premiered on November 21, 2023, on FX. It consists of 10 episodes. The season was scheduled to premiere in September 2023, but was delayed due to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes. As an anthology, each season of ''Fargo'' possesses its own self-contained narrative, following a disparate set of characters in various settings and eras in a shared universe. This is the first season of the series to have no connection to either a previous season or the film, though it makes several homages to the latter. It is set in Minnesota and North Dakota in the fall of 2019 and stars Juno Temple as Dorothy "Dot" Lyon, a seemingly typical Midwestern housewife living in Scandia, Minnesota, whose mysterious past comes back to haunt her after she inadvertently lands herself in hot water with the authorities. Other cast members include Jon Hamm as Roy Tillman, a North Dakota she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Possessor (film)
''Possessor'' is a 2020 science fiction psychological horror film written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg. It stars Andrea Riseborough and Christopher Abbott, with Rossif Sutherland, Tuppence Middleton, Sean Bean, and Jennifer Jason Leigh in supporting roles. Riseborough portrays an assassin who performs her assignments through possessing the bodies of other individuals, but finds herself fighting to control the body of her current host (Abbott). The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2020, and was released in the United States and Canada on October 2, 2020, by Neon and Elevation Pictures, while Signature Entertainment distributed the United Kingdom release on November 27, 2020. It received positive reviews, with praise for its originality and Riseborough, Abbott and Graham's performances. Plot Set in the near future, Tasya Vos is an assassin who takes control of other people's bodies to carry out her hits. Through an implant installe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annihilation (film)
''Annihilation'' is a 2018 Science fiction film, science fiction horror film written and directed by Alex Garland, loosely based on the Annihilation (VanderMeer novel), 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, and Oscar Isaac. The story follows a group of scientists who enter the Shimmer, a mysterious quarantined zone of mutating plants and animals caused by an alien presence. Released theatrically in the United States by Paramount Pictures on February 23, 2018, ''Annihilation'' was released digitally by Netflix in a number of other countries on March 12, 2018. It received positive reviews from critics and grossed $43 million worldwide. According to ''Empire (film magazine), Empire'' magazine, the film addresses "depression, grief, and the human propensity for self-destruction." Plot Cellular biology professor and former U.S. Army soldier Lena is under interrogation. She is the only survivor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atypical
''Atypical'' is an American comedy-drama television series created by Robia Rashid for Netflix. The series takes place in Connecticut, and focuses on the life of 18-year-old Samuel "Sam" Gardner ( Keir Gilchrist), who is autistic. The first season was released on August 11, 2017, consisting of eight episodes. The 10-episode second season was released on September 7, 2018. In October 2018, the series was renewed for a third season of ten episodes, which was released on November 1, 2019. In February 2020, it was renewed for a fourth and final season, which premiered on July 9, 2021. The first season received mostly positive reviews, but was criticized by some reviewers for its lack of autistic actors, and inaccuracies in its depiction of autism. The second season featured autistic actors and writers, giving them an opportunity to work and represent their community, and received mostly positive reviews. The third season continued this positive development and received overwhelmingl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netflix
Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres, and it is available internationally in multiple languages. Launched in 2007, nearly a decade after Netflix, Inc. began its pioneering DVD-by-mail movie rental service, Netflix is the most-subscribed video on demand streaming media service, with 301.6 million paid memberships in more than 190 countries as of 2025. By 2022, "Netflix Original" productions accounted for half of its library in the United States and the namesake company had ventured into other categories, such as video game publishing of mobile games through its flagship service. As of 2025, Netflix is the 18th most-visited website in the world, with 21.18% of its traffic coming from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 6.01%, Canada at 4.94%, and Brazil at 4.24%. History Launch as a mail-based renta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Supporting Actress
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 9th Academy Awards to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role in a film released that year. The award is traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Supporting Actor winner. However, in recent years, it has shifted towards being presented by previous years’ Best Supporting Actress winners instead. In lieu of the traditional Oscar statuette, supporting acting recipients were given plaques up until the 16th Academy Awards, when statuettes were awarded to each category instead. The Best Supporting Actress award has been presented a total of 89 times, to 87 actresses. The first winner was Gale Sondergaard for her role in '' Anthony Adverse'' (1936). The most recent winner is Zoe Saldaña for her role as Rita Mora Castro in '' Emilia Pérez'' (2024). The record for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Globe Award For Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
The Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture is a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe Award that was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1944 for a performance in a motion picture released in the previous year. The formal title has varied since its inception; since 2005, the award has officially been called "Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture". Winners and nominees 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Multiple nominations ;5 nominations * Lee Grant * Maureen Stapleton * Meryl Streep ;4 nominations * Amy Adams * Kate Winslet * Shelley Winters ;3 nominations * Kathy Bates * Cate Blanchett * Cameron Diaz * Mildred Dunnock * Jodie Foster * Nicole Kidman * Diane Ladd * Julianne Moore * Thelma Ritter * Julia Roberts * Octavia Spencer * Dianne Wiest ;2 nominations * Ann-Margret * Kim Basinger * Karen Black * Joa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hateful Eight
''The Hateful Eight'' is a 2015 American western thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, and Bruce Dern as eight dubious strangers who seek refuge from a blizzard in a stagecoach stopover a decade after the American Civil War. Tarantino announced the film in November 2013. He conceived it as a novel and sequel to his 2012 film '' Django Unchained'' before deciding to make it a standalone film. After the script leaked in January 2014, he decided to abandon the production and publish it as a novel instead. In April 2014, Tarantino directed a live reading of the script at the United Artists Theater in Los Angeles, before reconsidering a new draft and resuming the project. Filming began in January 2015 near Telluride, Colorado. Italian composer Ennio Morricone composed the original score, his first complete Western score in 34 years (an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anomalisa
''Anomalisa'' is a 2015 American adult animated film directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson from a screenplay written by Kaufman, based on a 2005 audio play of the same name by Kaufman that explores the Fregoli delusion, a term that referenced as a pen name for Kaufman himself. Incorporates elements of psychological drama, romantic comedy and self-reflexive fiction, a similar vein of Kaufman's own screenwriting film ''Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'', ''Anomalisa'' follows the British middle-aged customer service expert Michael Stone ( David Thewlis), who perceives everyone ( Tom Noonan) as identical except for Lisa Hesselman (Jennifer Jason Leigh), whom he meets in a Cincinnati hotel. Kaufman's audio play premiered in Los Angeles, and featured the voices of Thewlis, Noonan, and Leigh. He opposed adapting the play into a film, fearing loss of artistic merit, but began exploring the idea in 2012 after incorporating edits to the script. Filming faced delays as Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
