American film and stage actress Jennifer Jason Leigh has an estimated net worth of $4 million. Born Jennifer Leigh Morrow in Hollywood, California, USA on February 5, 1962, she changed her name to Jennifer Jason Leigh early in her acting career. She is best known for her roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Hudsucker Proxy, Single White Female, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Georgia and Short Cuts. She is the co-writer and co-director of the film The Anniversary Party, along with Alan Cumming.

Jennifer began acting when she was in elementary school. At the age of nine, she had her first film appearance in a non-speaking role for Death of a Stranger. At 14, she attended summer acting workshops at the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in New York. She then landed a role in the movie The Young Runaways (1978), and made an appearance in an episode of Baretta (1975), which earned her a Screen Actors Guild membership at the age of sixteen.

During the late 70s and early 80s, Leigh had guest-starring and starring roles on several television shows and TV movies. She dropped out of Pacific palisades High School when she played a major role in the film Eyes of a Stranger (1981).

Jennifer Jason Leigh had back-to-back, critically acclaimed performances in the 1990s Last Exit to Brooklyn and Miami Blues which led to her celebrity status in Hollywood. From then on, she had several projects, including Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, The Anniversary Party and Margot at the Wedding. She also had a recurring role in the television show Weeds. She currently appears in the show Revenge.