Janet Leigh
Gender: Female
Born: 6th July 1927
Died: 3rd October 2004
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Colgate Comedy Hour, Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special
Movies: Act of Violence, Grand Slam, Holiday Affair, Little Women, Pete Kelly's Blues, Psycho, Scaramouche, John Carpenter's The Fog, The Manchurian Candidate, The Naked Spur, The Perfect Furlough, Touch of Evil, Night of the Lepus, Three On A Couch, Who Was That Lady?, The Black Shield of Falworth, Living It Up, Harper, Houdini, The Vikings, Angels in the Outfield, Rogue Cop, Jet Pilot, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, That Forsyte Woman, Bad Girls From Valley High, The Romance of Rosy Ridge, Prince Valiant, Strictly Dishonorable, Bye Bye Birdie, Hello Down There, Fearless Fagan, My Sister Eileen, The Red Danube, Safari, One Is a Lonely Number, Words and Music, Boardwalk, Wives and Lovers, Hills of Home, Confidentially Connie, Kid Rodelo, It's a Big Country, Walking My Baby Back Home, An American Dream, Two Tickets to Broadway, Murdock's Gang, The Red Danube, If Winter Comes, The Doctor and the Girl, In My Sister's Shadow, Just This Once
Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress. She was the mother of Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Discovered by actress Norma Shearer, Leigh secured a contract with MGM and began her film career in 1947. She appeared in several popular films over the following decade, including Little Women (1949), Holiday Affair (1949), Angels in the Outfield (1951), and Living It Up (1954).
In 1951, she married actor Tony Curtis, her third husband, with whom she co-starred in five films, including Houdini (1953), The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), and The Perfect Furlough (1958). During the latter half of the 1950s, she played mostly dramatic roles in such films as Safari (1955), Touch of Evil (1958) and Psycho (1960), for which she was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She continued to appear occasionally in films and television, including The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and two films with her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis: The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998).
The only child of Helen Lita (née Westergaard) and Frederick Robert
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