Jennifer Jason Leigh (born February 5, 1962) is an American movie and stage actress. She is best known for her roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Single White Female, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Georgia, Kill Your Darlings, Short Cuts and The Hateful Eight. She has had many roles in which she portrays vulnerable, abused and damaged women in her movies.
For the movie Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Leigh got a Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress and a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress.
Leigh was born in Hollywood, California.