Janet Leigh

Janet Leigh

Janet Leigh

Janet Leigh was an American actress, singer, dancer known for The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947), Act of Violence (1948), Little Women (1949), Angels in the Outfield (1951), Scaramouche (1952), The Naked Spur (1953), Safari (1956), Orson Welles's film noir Touch of Evil, Holiday Affair (1949) with Robert Mitchum.

Leigh achieved her biggest success starring in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Psycho (1960) for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

She continued to appear in films, including Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Harper (1966), Night of the Lepus (1972), and Boardwalk (1979).  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).


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