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Jennifer Jason Leigh Facts:
Jennifer Jason Leigh height: 5 feet & 3 inches
Weight: 49.9 kg (110 pounds)
Age: 53 years (February 5, 1962)

Also popular with her nickname ‘JJL’, Jennifer Jason Leigh has succeeded making her stable acting career from stage to television & film. Slim & trim American actress though has pretty petite height; she knows how to carry herself chicly in the public. Her total body weight is listed to be approximately 49.9 kg in 5 feet & 3 inches stature. Hazel eyed Jennifer too has a flawless body measurements’ of 34- 23- 34’.

Jennifer Jason Leigh’s actual birth name is Jennifer Leigh Morrow, the daughter of Barbara Turner & her spouse Vic Morrow. Hollywood, California, United States born Jennifer is now 53, with reference to her official birth date 5th February, 1962. As for her parents’ professional detail, her father was a well known actor & her mother works as a screenwriter. At the youngage of 2, she faced her parents’ separation with a divorce. Jennifer belongs to Jewish ancestry; her dad’s family was originally from Russia while her mom’s came from Austria. She has an elder sister named Carrie Ann Morrow & too has a half sister named Mina Badie, an actress, from her mom’s remarriage with Reza Badiyi, an Iranian American film director. Speaking about Jennifer’s marriage life, she was once married to Noah Baumbach, an American director, writer & independent filmmaker. They were bounded within a nuptial knot from 2nd September, 2005 until their divorce confirmation in 2013 September, The duo even share a son together, named Rohmer Emmanuel, born on 17th of March, 2010.

1971 was the very year when Jennifer Jason Leigh earned her foremost film role, a nonspeaking part for the 1973 released movie “Death of a Stranger”. At the age of 14, she went to the Loch Sheldrake, New York’s Stagedoor Manor Arts Trainung Center where she attended the summer acting seminars provided by actor Lee Strasberg & made her starring in the film “The Young Runaways” (1978). That year, she also made her television debut appearing in a single episode of ABC detective TV series “Baretta”. Following further roles, the rising actress was honored with her first award in the year 1989, i.e. Boston Society of Film Critics for Best Supporting Actress, for her wonderful performance in the German British drama movie “Last Exit to Brooklyn”. She also earned the very award the next year, for her role as Susie Waggoner in the 1990 action crime thriller movie “Miami Blues”, also earning the New York Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. Jennifer went on landing numbers of notable roles in other noteworthy movies, such as “Single White Female” (1992), “Short Cuts” (1993), “Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle” (1994), “A Thousand Acres” (1997), “The King Is Alive” (2000), “The Anniversary Party” (2001), “Margot at the Wedding” (2007), & “Welcome to Me” (2014), among others.

About the career span of more than 3 long decades in the film industry, Jennifer Jason Leigh has not just earned a variety of roles but has too bagged numbers of prestigious awards & accolades. Nonetheless, she is running in her early 50s, the actress is yet vigorous to her acting profession. She is reported to be coming out soon in few movies, including “Amityville” & “The Hateful Eight”, due to be launched in the year 2015.