Though her mother tried to talk her out of it, Leigh started taking acting lessons at 14 and, coming from a show business family, she had little trouble getting into film. She won early acclaim as an anorexic in a TV movie, and became famous in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. While that movie was still in first run theaters and getting generally good reviews, her father Vic Morrow was killed by a helecopter filming the Twilight Zone movie. At her mother's house the next night, Leigh and the rest of the family paid their respects by watching Morrow's The Blackboard Jungle.
Leigh's mother, Barbara Turner, is an accomplished screenwriter, and wrote Leigh's Georgia. Her stepfather, Reza Badiyi, was a TV director for decades in a career stretching from Get Smart to She Spies. He was also good buddies with film director Robert Altman. Leigh's on-screen middle name, Jason, is an homage to family friend Jason Robards.
[1] In biographies written before 1990, she is reported to have been born in 1958. In more recent bios, her birthday has been revised to 1962.Father: Vic Morrow (actor, m. 1957, div. from Turner in 1964)
Mother: Barbara Turner (screenwriter, Pollock, div. 1964)
Father: Reza Badiyi (stepfather, TV director, Get Smart, b. 17-Apr-1930, m. 1968, div. 1985)
Sister: Carrie Ann Morrow (drug counselor)
Sister: Mina Badie (half-sister, actress, Roger Dodger, )
Boyfriend: David Dukes (actor, b. 1945, cohabited early 1980s, d. 2000)
Boyfriend: Eric Stoltz (together 1985-89)
Boyfriend: Jason Patric
Husband: Noah Baumbach (filmmaker, together since 2001, m. 3-Sep-2005, sep. 2010)
Son: Rohmer (b. 17-Mar-2010)
High School: Palisades High School, Pacific Palisades, CA
Camp: Stagedoor Manor
Russian Ancestry
Risk Factors: Smoking
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
The Anniversary Party (23-May-2001)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
White Boy Rick (31-Aug-2018)
Patrick Melrose (12-May-2018)
Annihilation (13-Feb-2018)
Amityville: The Awakening (29-Jun-2017)
Good Time (25-May-2017)
LBJ (9-Sep-2016)
Morgan (1-Sep-2016)
The Hateful Eight (7-Dec-2015)
Anomalisa (4-Sep-2015) [VOICE]
Welcome to Me (5-Sep-2014)
Jake Squared (27-Sep-2013)
Hateship Loveship (7-Sep-2013)
The Moment (21-Apr-2013)
Kill Your Darlings (18-Jan-2013)
The Spectacular Now (18-Jan-2013)
Greenberg (14-Feb-2010) · Beth
Synecdoche, New York (23-May-2008) · Maria
Margot at the Wedding (31-Aug-2007) · Pauline
Rag Tale (12-Aug-2005)
The Jacket (23-Jan-2005) · Dr. Lorenson
Childstar (10-Sep-2004)
Palindromes (3-Sep-2004)
The Machinist (18-Jan-2004) · Stevie
In the Cut (9-Sep-2003) · Pauline
Road to Perdition (12-Jul-2002) · Annie Sullivan
Hey Arnold! The Movie (May-2002) · Bridget [VOICE]
Crossed Over (3-Mar-2002)
The Quickie (25-Jul-2001)
The Anniversary Party (23-May-2001)
Skipped Parts (6-Jun-2000) · Lydia Callahan
The King Is Alive (11-May-2000) · Gina
Spawn 3: Ultimate Battle (17-Aug-1999) [VOICE]
eXistenZ (16-Feb-1999) · Allegra Geller
The Love Letter (1-Feb-1998)
A Thousand Acres (19-Sep-1997)
Washington Square (12-Sep-1997)
Bastard Out of Carolina (24-Aug-1996)
Kansas City (15-May-1996)
Georgia (19-May-1995) · Sadie
Dolores Claiborne (24-Mar-1995) · Selena St. George
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (7-Sep-1994)
The Hudsucker Proxy (11-Mar-1994) · Amy Archer
Short Cuts (1-Oct-1993)
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country (1993) · Herself
Single White Female (14-Aug-1992)
Rush (22-Dec-1991) · Kristen
Crooked Hearts (31-May-1991)
Backdraft (24-May-1991) · Jennifer Vaitkus
Buried Alive (9-May-1990)
Miami Blues (20-Apr-1990)
Last Exit to Brooklyn (12-Oct-1989)
The Big Picture (15-Sep-1989)
Heart of Midnight (3-Mar-1989)
Under Cover (4-Dec-1987) · Tanille Laroux
Sister, Sister (13-Sep-1987)
The Men's Club (Sep-1986) · Teensy
The Hitcher (21-Feb-1986) · Nash
Flesh + Blood (30-Aug-1985) · Agnes
Grandview, U.S.A. (3-Aug-1984)
Girls of the White Orchid (28-Nov-1983)
Easy Money (19-Aug-1983) · Allison Capuletti
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (13-Aug-1982) · Stacy Hamilton
Wrong Is Right (16-Apr-1982)
The Best Little Girl in the World (11-May-1981)
The Killing of Randy Webster (11-Mar-1981)
I Think I'm Having a Baby (3-Mar-1981)
Eyes of a Stranger (11-Feb-1981)
AKA Jennifer Lee Morrow