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: Eric Stoltz (1985-89)
Boyfriend: Jason Patric
Boyfriend: David Dukes (actor, The Winds of War, b. 6-Jun-1945, cohabited in early 1980s)
Husband: Noah Baumbach (filmmaker, together since 2001, m. 3-Sep-2005)
High School: Palisades High School, Pacific Palisades, CA
Russian Ancestry
Risk Factors: Smoking
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
The Anniversary Party (23-May-2001)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Margot at the Wedding (31-Aug-2007)
The Jacket (23-Jan-2005)
Childstar (10-Sep-2004)
Palindromes (3-Sep-2004)
The Machinist (18-Jan-2004)
In the Cut (9-Sep-2003)
Road to Perdition (12-Jul-2002)
Hey Arnold! The Movie (May-2002) [VOICE]
The Quickie (25-Jul-2001)
The Anniversary Party (23-May-2001)
Skipped Parts (6-Jun-2000)
The King Is Alive (11-May-2000)
Spawn 3: Ultimate Battle (17-Aug-1999) [VOICE]
eXistenZ (16-Feb-1999)
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)
Dolores Claiborne (24-Mar-1995)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (7-Sep-1994)
The Hudsucker Proxy (11-Mar-1994)
Short Cuts (1-Oct-1993)
Single White Female (14-Aug-1992)
Rush (22-Dec-1991)
Crooked Hearts (31-May-1991)
Backdraft (24-May-1991)
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)
Sister, Sister (13-Sep-1987)
The Men's Club (Sep-1986)
The Hitcher (21-Feb-1986)
Flesh & Blood (30-Aug-1985)
Grandview, U.S.A. (3-Aug-1984)
Girls of the White Orchid (28-Nov-1983)
Easy Money (19-Aug-1983)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (13-Aug-1982)
Wrong Is Right (16-Apr-1982)
The Best Little Girl in the World (11-May-1981)
I Think I'm Having a Baby (3-Mar-1981)
Eyes of a Stranger (11-Feb-1981)
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