Janet Leigh
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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.
Known for
Credits
Psycho (1960)
as Marion Crane
Angels in the Outfield (1951)
as Jennifer Paige
The Fog (1980)
as Kathy Williams
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
as Norma
Little Women (1949)
as Meg
Psycho II (1983)
as Marion Crane (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
as Eugenie Rose Chaney
Harper (1966)
as Susan Harper
Touch of Evil (1958)
as Susan 'Susie' Vargas
The Vikings (1958)
as Morgana
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
Prince Valiant (1954)
as Princess Aleta
Night of the Lepus (1972)
as Gerry Bennett
Scaramouche (1952)
as Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon
The Naked Spur (1953)
as Lina Patch
Psycho III (1986)
as Marion Crane (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
as Rosie DeLeon
The American Nightmare (2000)
as Self
People, Hopes, Medals (1960)
as Self
My Sister Eileen (1955)
as Eileen Sherwood
Hollywood: No Sex, Please! (2018)
Actor
Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
as Self
Living It Up (1954)
as Wally Cook
The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
as Lady Anne of Mackworth
Jet Pilot (1957)
as Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Spy in the Green Hat (1967)
as Miss Diketon
Boardwalk (1979)
as Florence Cohen
The Deadly Dream (1971)
as Laurel Hanley
Words and Music (1948)
as Dorothy Feiner
Wives and Lovers (1963)
as Bertie Austin
Hello Down There (1969)
as Vivian Miller
Act of Violence (1949)
as Edith Enley
The Story of Lassie (1994)
as Self
Confidentially Connie (1953)
as Connie Bedloe
Holiday Affair (1949)
as Connie Ennis
Fairfax Avenue (1951)
Actor
Who Was That Lady? (1960)
as Ann Wilson
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self
Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
as Nancy Peterson
Bad Girls from Valley High (2005)
as Mrs. Witt
Houdini (1953)
as Bess Houdini
One Is a Lonely Number (1972)
as Gert Meredith
Pepe (1960)
as Janet Leigh
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great (1994)
as Himself
Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius (1999)
as Self
An American Dream (1966)
as Cherry McMahon
Three on a Couch (1966)
as Dr Elizabeth Acord
Unmasking the Horror (1998)
Actor
It's a Big Country (1951)
as Rosa Szabo Xenophon
I Am Alfred Hitchcock (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
The Perfect Furlough (1958)
as Lt. Vicki Loren
The Making of 'Psycho' (2005)
as Self
The Red Danube (1949)
as Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen
Walking My Baby Back Home (1953)
as Chris Hall
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987)
as Self
Grand Slam (1967)
as Mary Ann
House on Greenapple Road (1970)
as Marian Ord
The Doctor and the Girl (1949)
as Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon
Hills of Home (1948)
as Margit Mitchell
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
as Ivy Conrad
The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)
as Self (archive)
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special (1999)
as Self (uncredited)
Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (2000)
as Herself
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)
as Lissy Anne MacBean
Safari (1956)
as Linda Latham
Rogue Cop (1954)
as Karen Stephanson
The Egg (1993)
as The egg (voice) (archive footage)
Inside the Dream Factory (1995)
as Self
Rat Pack (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Pictures of Ghosts (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Honeymoon with a Stranger (1969)
as Sandra Latham
Just This Once (1952)
as Lucy Duncan
Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood (1954)
Actor
The Re-Inforcer (1951)
as Mary Muck
Strictly Dishonorable (1951)
as Isabelle Perry
Kid Rodelo (1966)
as Nora
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1986)
as Self
Murdock's Gang (1973)
as Laura Talbot
The Horror Show (1979)
as (archive footage)
If Winter Comes (1947)
as Effie Bright
An Eye for an Eye (1952)
Actor
The Monk (1969)
as Janice Barnes
Bob Hope Christmas Show (1965)
as Self
Fearless Fagan (1952)
as Abby Ames
Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown (1996)
as Self - Interviewee
Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog' (2002)
as Self
A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954)
as Self
Nightmare (1956)
as Janet
In My Sister's Shadow (1997)
as Kay Connor
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (2000)
as Self
Mirror, Mirror (1979)
as Millie Gorman
Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog' (1980)
as Self
Come Back Little Shiksa (1952)
Actor
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons (1995)
as Self
Rat Pack: A Conference of Cool (1999)
as Self
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows (1999)
as Self
Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
as Self (archive footage)
Telethon (1977)
as Elaine Cotten
Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
That Forsyte Woman (1949)
as June Forsyte
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies (2000)
as Self
Murder at the World Series (1977)
as Karen Weese
How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border (1949)
Actor
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil" (2019)
as (archive footage)