Janet Leigh
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1927-07-06 (77 years old)
Deathday
2004-10-03
Place of Birth
Merced, California, USA
Also known As
Jeanette Helen Morrison
جنت لی
Janet Leigh
Biography
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 co...
Acting
1962
as Eugenie Rose Chaney
1960
as Marion Crane
1958
as Susan 'Susie' Vargas
1980
as Kathy Williams
1953
as Lina Patch
1954
as Karen Stephanson
1998
as Norma Watson
1954
as Lady Anne of Mackworth
1949
as Connie Ennis
1963
as Rosie DeLeon
1966
as Susan Harper
1949
as Edith Enley
1952
as Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon
1979
as (archive footage)
1969
as Vivian Miller
1949
as Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen
1958
as Morgana
1960
as Self
1955
as Ivy Conrad
1955
as Eileen Sherwood
1949
as June Forsyte
1953
as Bess Houdini
1949
as Meg
2017
as Marion Crane
1979
as Millie Gorman
1951
as Jennifer Paige
1972
as Gerry Bennett
1966
as Dr Elizabeth Acord
1954
as Princess Aleta
1956
as Linda Latham
1993
as Marion Crane (archive footage)
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1960
as Janet Leigh
1951
as Rosa Szabo Xenophon
1957
as Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief
1972
as Gert Meredith
2000
as Self
2019
as (archive footage)
1967
as Mary Ann
1949
as Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon
2005
as Self
1966
as Nora
2000
1972
as Self (archive footage)
1960
as Ann Wilson
2000
as Herself
1948
as Margit Mitchell
1951
as Nancy Peterson
1966
as Cherry McMahon
1994
as Self
1947
as Effie Bright
1979
as Florence Cohen
1963
as Bertie Austin
1969
as Sandra Latham
1969
as Janice Barnes
1971
as Laurel Hanley
1951
as Isabelle Perry
1958
as Lt. Vicki Loren
1952
as Abby Ames
1947
as Lissy Anne MacBean
1953
as Chris Hall
2005
as Mrs. Witt
1967
as Miss Diketon
1999
1970
as Marian Ord
1999
1953
as Connie Bedloe
1948
as Dorothy Feiner
1952
as Lucy Duncan
2022
as Self (archive footage)
1995
1977
as Elaine Cotten
1986
1985
as Self
1999
1954
as Wally Cook
2010
as Self (archive footage)
1996
as Interviewee
1977
as Karen Weese
1954
1997
as Kay Connor
1951
1956
as Janet
2017
as Self (archive footage)
1993
as The egg (voice) (archive footage)
2002
1980
2014
as Self (archive footage)
1973
as Laura Talbot
1995
as Self
2000
1999
as Self (uncredited)
2021
as Self
1982
as Self
1994
as Himself
1965
as Self
1987
1983
as Marion Crane (archival footage) (uncredited)
Production
1957
as Executive Producer
1958
as Executive Producer
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