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
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
as Norma
The Fog (1980)
as Kathy Williams
Psycho II (1983)
as Marion Crane (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
as Eugenie Rose Chaney
Touch of Evil (1958)
as Susan 'Susie' Vargas
The Vikings (1958)
as Morgana
Little Women (1949)
as Meg
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
Scaramouche (1952)
as Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon
Psycho III (1986)
as Marion Crane (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Naked Spur (1953)
as Lina Patch
Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
as Rosie DeLeon
Angels in the Outfield (1951)
as Jennifer Paige
Harper (1966)
as Susan Harper
Holiday Affair (1949)
as Connie Ennis
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special (1999)
as Self
Prince Valiant (1954)
as Princess Aleta
The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
as Lady Anne of Mackworth
Living It Up (1954)
as Wally Cook
Jet Pilot (1957)
as Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief
Act of Violence (1949)
as Edith Enley
Night of the Lepus (1972)
as Gerry Bennett
Houdini (1953)
as Bess Houdini
Confidentially Connie (1953)
as Connie Bedloe
Grand Slam (1967)
as Mary Ann
I Am Alfred Hitchcock (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Who Was That Lady? (1960)
as Ann Wilson
The Perfect Furlough (1958)
as Vicki Loren
Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
as Self
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self
My Sister Eileen (1955)
as Eileen Sherwood
The Horror Show (1979)
as (archive footage)
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987)
as Self
The Red Danube (1949)
as Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen
That Forsyte Woman (1949)
as June Forsyte
Hello Down There (1969)
as Vivian Miller
An American Dream (1966)
as Cherry McMahon
The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)
as Self (archive)
Words and Music (1948)
as Dorothy Feiner
Bad Girls from Valley High (2005)
as Mrs. Witt
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: No Sex, Please! (2018)
Actor
Walking My Baby Back Home (1953)
as Chris Hall
Pepe (1960)
as Janet Leigh
Just This Once (1952)
as Lucy Duncan
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies (2000)
as Self
Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius (1999)
as Self
A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954)
as Self
Pictures of Ghosts (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
as Nancy Peterson
Boardwalk (1979)
as Florence Cohen
The Spy in the Green Hat (1967)
as Miss Diketon
House on Greenapple Road (1970)
as Marian Ord
The Doctor and the Girl (1949)
as Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon
It's a Big Country (1951)
as Rosa Szabo Xenophon
Rogue Cop (1954)
as Karen Stephanson
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Three on a Couch (1966)
as Dr Elizabeth Acord
How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border (1949)
Actor
The American Nightmare (2000)
as Self
The Deadly Dream (1971)
as Laurel Hanley
The Story of Lassie (1994)
as Self
Hills of Home (1948)
as Margit Mitchell
Wives and Lovers (1963)
as Bertie Austin
People, Hopes, Medals (1960)
as Self
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
as Ivy Conrad
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows (1999)
as Self
The Monk (1969)
as Janice Barnes
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)
as Lissy Anne MacBean
Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
as Self (archive footage)
Honeymoon with a Stranger (1969)
as Sandra Latham
Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog' (1980)
as Self
Unmasking the Horror (1998)
Actor
Mirror, Mirror (1979)
as Millie Gorman
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil" (2019)
as (archive footage)
The Re-Inforcer (1951)
as Mary Muck
Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood (1954)
Actor
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons (1995)
as Self
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (2000)
as Self
Telethon (1977)
as Elaine Cotten
Safari (1956)
as Linda Latham
Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown (1996)
as Self - Interviewee
If Winter Comes (1947)
as Effie Bright
Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog' (2002)
as Self
Murder at the World Series (1977)
as Karen Weese
Come Back Little Shiksa (1952)
Actor
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1986)
as Self
In My Sister's Shadow (1997)
as Kay Connor
Fearless Fagan (1952)
as Abby Ames
One Is a Lonely Number (1972)
as Gert Meredith
Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (2000)
as Herself
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great (1994)
as Himself
Strictly Dishonorable (1951)
as Isabelle Perry
The Making of 'Psycho' (2005)
as Self
The Egg (1993)
as The egg (voice) (archive footage)
Inside the Dream Factory (1995)
as Self
Fairfax Avenue (1951)
Actor
Kid Rodelo (1966)
as Nora
Rat Pack: A Conference of Cool (1999)
as Self
Nightmare (1956)
as Janet
Murdock's Gang (1973)
as Laura Talbot
An Eye for an Eye (1952)
Actor
Bob Hope Christmas Show (1965)
as Self
100 Years of the Idiot: A Jerry Lewis Centenary (2026)
Actor
Nightmare (1951)
Actor
A Spot In The Shade (1951)
Actor
Watch On The Lime (1951)
Actor