Jennifer Tilly

Jennifer Tilly (born September 16, 1958 in Harbor City, California) is an American actress who has starred in many major films as well as independent features.

Biography

Tilly was born Jennifer E Chan and was raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She attended Belmont High School along with her two sisters, one of whom, Meg Tilly, is also an actress. She began her acting career as a teenager, putting herself through the theater program at Stephens College in Missouri.

Her breakthrough film role was in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) and she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Bullets Over Broadway (1994).

Jennifer married Simpsons producer Sam Simon in 1984 but they divorced in 1991.

Tilly gained some additional popularity in recent years for providing voice-over work for the Child's Play series of movies. In the most recent installment, Seed of Chucky, she plays a dual role, not only providing a voice for one of the killer dolls, but also playing a parody of herself.

Selected filmography

  • No Small Affair (1984)
  • Hill Street Blues (TV-Series 1981 - 1987) Tilly appeared (1984 - 1985)
  • Moving Violations (1985)
  • Johnny Be Good (1988)
  • High Spirits (1988)
  • Let It Ride (1989)
  • The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
  • The Doors (1991)
  • Scorchers (1991)
  • Shadow of the Wolf (1992)
  • Made in America (1993)
  • Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
  • The Getaway (1994)
  • Bound (1996)
  • Liar Liar (1997)
  • Edie & Pen (1997)
  • The Wrong Guy (1997)
  • Bride of Chucky (1998) (voice)
  • Stuart Little (1999) (voice)
  • The Crew (2000)
  • Monsters, Inc. (2001) (voice)
  • The Cat's Meow (2001)
  • The Haunted Mansion (2003)
  • Home on the Range (2004) (voice)
  • Seed of Chucky (2004)

External Links

  • Jennifer Tilly at IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/Name?Tilly,+Jennifer)

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In the most recent installment, Seed of Chucky, she plays a dual role, not only providing a voice for one of the killer dolls, but also playing a parody of herself. In 2004 she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance in the film 21 Grams. Tilly gained some additional popularity in recent years for providing voice-over work for the Child's Play series of movies. The quality and size of Watts' roles improved after Mulholland Dr., and she starred in the highly successful US remake of The Ring, a Japanese horror movie. Jennifer married Simpsons producer Sam Simon in 1984 but they divorced in 1991. In 2001, Watts appeared in David Lynch's Mulholland Dr., a performance which won high praise but failed to gain her an Academy Award nomination. Her breakthrough film role was in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) and she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Bullets Over Broadway (1994). Her first big break came with the 1995 movie Tank Girl with the part of Jet Girl.

She began her acting career as a teenager, putting herself through the theater program at Stephens College in Missouri. She first appeared in television commercials and then the drama series Home and Away in 1988 in the role of Julie Gibson. She attended Belmont High School along with her two sisters, one of whom, Meg Tilly, is also an actress. She only returned to acting when a casual invitation from a colleague to participate in a small play rekindled her passion for the scenic arts and prompted her to quit her job and dedicate herself completely to making it as an actress. Tilly was born Jennifer E Chan and was raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Upon returning to Australia, Watts went to work for a local department store and from there she went to work as assistant fashion editor with an Australian fashion magazine. Jennifer Tilly (born September 16, 1958 in Harbor City, California) is an American actress who has starred in many major films as well as independent features. In 1986 she took a break from acting and went to Japan to work as a model, but the experience was fruitless, and Watts describes it as one of the worst periods of her life, which lasted for about four months.

Jennifer Tilly at IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/Name?Tilly,+Jennifer). In Sydney, she attended several acting schools (and in the very first lesson in the first school, she met Nicole Kidman, with whom she shared a taxi home from class). Seed of Chucky (2004). Her father was a sound engineer with Pink Floyd and her mother is described by Watts as a hippie "with passive-aggressive tendencies" who used to threat to send her and her brother to foster care in order to convince her grandparents to take care of the family, since her mother had no money after her father's passing. Home on the Range (2004) (voice). Her grandmother, Nikki, was Australian, which made it easier to obtain the documentation necessary, since Naomi and her family were entitled to Australian citizenship. The Haunted Mansion (2003). Then, during a trip to Australia, her mother became convinced that there was "the land of opportunities" and moved the family to Sydney in 1982.

The Cat's Meow (2001). She lived there until she was 14. Monsters, Inc. (2001) (voice). Following her father's death, her mother relocated the family to the town of Llangefni (more especifically Llanfawr Farm, a district of Llangefni), in Northern Wales, where they lived with Naomi's grandparents, Hugh and Nikki Roberts, although her mother occasionally moved the family around Wales and England, usually to follow boyfriends, but she always ended up returning to Llangefni. The Crew (2000). Her parents, Peter and Myfanwy Watts had separated when she was four years old, and when she was seven her father died. Stuart Little (1999) (voice). Watts was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Kent, England, where she lived until the age of eight.

Bride of Chucky (1998) (voice). Naomi Watts (born September 28, 1968) is an English-born Australian actress and producer. The Wrong Guy (1997). Ann Darrow. Edie & Pen (1997). King Kong (2005) …. Liar Liar (1997). Anymore (http://www.up4u.net/cms/go.php?pagename=Movie/Anymore) (2004) ….

Bound (1996). Rachel Keller. The Getaway (1994). The Ring Two (2004) …. Bullets Over Broadway (1994). Lila Culpepper. Made in America (1993). Stay (http://www.up4u.net/cms/go.php?pagename=Movie/Stay) (2004) ….

Shadow of the Wolf (1992). Dawn Campbell. Scorchers (1991). I Heart Huckabees (2004) …. The Doors (1991). Marie Byck. The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989). Assassination of Richard Nixon, The (2004) ….

Let It Ride (1989). Edith Evans. High Spirits (1988). We Don’t Live Here Anymore (2004) …. Johnny Be Good (1988). 21 Grams (2003). Moving Violations (1985). Le Divorce (2003).

Hill Street Blues (TV-Series 1981 - 1987) Tilly appeared (1984 - 1985). Ned Kelly (2003). No Small Affair (1984). Rabbits (2002). The Outsider (2002). Plots with a View (2002).

The Ring (2002). Mulholland Dr. (2001). Down (2001). Ellie Parker (2001).

The Wyvern Mystery (2000). Strange Planet (1999). The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (1999). A House Divided (1998).

The Christmas Wish (1998). Babe: Pig in the City (1998). Dangerous Beauty (1998). Sleepwalkers (1997) (television series).

Under the Lighthouse Dancing (1997). Persons Unknown (1996). Timepiece (1996). Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996).

Bermuda Triangle (1996). Tank Girl (1995). The Custodian (1993). Gross Misconduct (1993).

Wide Sargasso Sea (1993). Matinee (1993). Brides of Christ (1991) (television mini-series). Flirting (1991).

Home and Away (1988) (television series). For Love Alone (1986).