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Transcript: A Profile of Actress Jennifer Jason Leigh
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- NPR Morning Edition
- Article date:
- January 19, 1996
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Pat Dowell profiles actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, known for the offbeat
characters she portrays in motion pictures. Her character Sadie in
her new film "Georgia" is no exception.
BOB EDWARDS, Host: Something terrible usually happens to the women
played by actress Jennifer Jason Leigh. In Mrs. Parker and the Vicious
Circle her character commits suicide; in Single White Female she kills
people; in Dolores Claiborne her mother is accused of killing people.
Leigh first appeared in a movie in 1980, playing a disabled teenager
stalked by a serial killer. Since then her gallery of tormented women
has won her the admiration of critics, who praise ...