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Jennifer Tilly Profile |
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Birth Date: September 16, 1958
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Birth Place: Harbor City, California, USA
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Birth Name: Jennifer E Chan
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Height: 5'6"
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Biography |
Jennifer Tilly was born September 16, 1958, in Harbor City,
California. The daughter of Harry, a stockbroker, and Pat, a
schoolteacher, Jennifer's parents got divorced when she was
6. Pat Tilly remarried and took Jennifer, her 3 siblings,
and her 3 stepsiblings to British Columbia, Canada.
Having to relocate constantly with her family, Jennifer had
to adjust to each new school, and was a pretty quiet
student. At 17, she started out yet again at a new school,
this time at St. Stephen's College in Missouri, to study
theater. In order to help pay for her tuition, she
contributed articles to magazines and earned money by
winning Honorable Mentions in writing competitions.
She then decided to head to college in Los Angeles rather
than New York, as opposed to her sister Meg (you might
remember her from roles in The Big Chill and Body Snatchers,
in which Jennifer was Meg's body double). Frustrated at
first, Jennifer did land her own parts as well.
Jennifer was making the television rounds, with a role as an
extra on Days of Our Lives, to a recurring role on Hill
Street Blues in 1984. That year she was cast as Shannon
Winters on the short-lived sitcom, Shaping Up, and followed
it up with guest appearances on Remington Steele, Cheers,
and another recurring role on It's Gary Shandling's Show.
Jennifer was also busy appearing in bit parts, in films such
as Moving Violations, Inside Out, Remote Control, He's My
Girl, and Rented Lips, one year after the other.
In 1988, in addition to Johnny Be Good (which featured a
young Uma Thurman), Jennifer appeared in High Spirits. After
roles in Let It Ride and Far From Home, Jennifer was finally
recognized for her role as auditioning singer Blanche
"Monica" Moran in 1989's The Fabulous Baker Boys.
Then more parts came her way, such as in The Doors,
Scorchers and Made in America, but she finally got her big
break when she was cast as Olive Neal, the wife of a
mobster, in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, in 1994.
The tiny-voiced actress was nominated for a Best Supporting
Actress Oscar, in her convincing portrayal of an untalented
aspiring actress. Her past theater experience could have
helped make her portrayal of a theater actress (not as an
untalented actress) easier, as she has appeared in the
theater production of One Shoe Off -- and this role garnered
her a Theater World Award in 1993.
In 1996, Jennifer reprised her role as a mobster's
girlfriend, only this time as a bisexual girlfriend in the
erotic film Bound. She then appeared in the Jim Carrey
comedy, Liar Liar, and appeared in 1998's Relax... It's Just
Sex and Hoods.
With few substantial film roles coming her way, Jennifer
starred yet again as the girlfriend of a criminal, only this
time as the wife of a terrorizing doll, Chucky, in 1998's
The Bride of Chucky.
In 1999, she lent her voice to The Family Guy and Stuart
Little; appeared as herself in The Muse; and had a bit part
in Play It to the Bone. Jennifer had to take it off for her
role as a stripper in 2000's The Crew, and starred in Inside
Job, in 2001.
Since then, she has appeared in Seed of Chucky (2004), The
Civilization of Maxwell Bright (2005) and Tideland (2005).
She has also been cast in Funny Farm (2006), opposite
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Went to high school at Belmont High School, Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada.
Sister of actress Meg Tilly. She also has an older brother
and a younger sister named Rebecca Tilly.
Attended Stephens College, in Columbia, Missouri (majored in
drama)
Has one cat, Corky.
She has won a Theater World Award for Most Promising
Newcomer for her work in Tina Howe's play "One Shoe Off" at
The Joseph Papp Theater. She also received a Dramalogue
Award for her work in the play "Vanities". She won a Gemini
Award for Best Actress for her role in Showtime's
made-for-TV film Heads (1993) (TV) and a nomination for a
Cable ACE Award for her work on "It's Garry Shandling's
Show." (1986).
Avid lover of fashion and has 400 pairs of shoes.
Lenny von Dohlen, who co-starred with Jennifer in Bird of
Prey (1995) and her sister Meg Tilly in Leaving Normal
(1992), said, "They have a fountain of emotion that keeps
coming, even after someone yells cut, but the fountain comes
from different bodies of water," he adds. "Meg is an ocean,
Jennifer is a rushing river."
In high school, everyone called Jennifer, Meg, and their
younger sister Becky the Three Musketeers.
She ranked #23 in Celebrity Sleuth 25 Sexiest Women of 1995
Measurements: 36C-24-34 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
She has played a hot, ditzy, sexy love interest for Kelsey
Grammer's Frasier Crane character when he was trying to get
over other women on "Cheers" (1982) and again on "Frasier"
(1993) (though she was not playing the same character).
Is 1/2 Caucasian and 1/2 Chinese
In 2005, won the Ladies-Only No Limit Texas Hold 'Em event
at the World Series of Poker, becoming the first celebrity
to win an open (as opposed to celebrity-only) WSOP
tournament and earn a World Series bracelet. She beat out
exactly 600 other women to take the championship.
Initially involved in Los Angeles Equity waiver theater, she
was a one-time member for several years with Lonny Chapman's
Group Repertory Theatre.
Followed up her World Series of Poker win with a victory in
the "World Poker Tour" (2003) Ladies Night, to be broadcast
during the fourth season of WPT.
Her real-life boyfriend is professional poker player Phil
Laak (aka "The Unabomber"). They met at a charitable
invitational poker tournament. |
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