Jennifer Jason Leigh
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50 free Jennifer Jason Leigh trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Jennifer Jason Leigh has been choosing the difficult part since the late 1970s. She broke through as a teenager in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, became a favorite of independent directors in the 1990s, and earned an Academy Award nomination for The Hateful Eight. This quiz walks through her filmography: the thrillers and crime dramas that made her name, the directors who kept casting her, her voice work, her Broadway runs and her later turns on television. Along the way you will meet the co-stars, characters and behind-the-scenes stories attached to those roles. It suits film fans who know her from one or two famous parts and want to see how much more there is, as well as devoted followers who can tell her early cult films from her award winners.
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Q 01In which thriller does Jennifer Jason Leigh play Hedy, a roommate who terrorizes Bridget Fonda's character?
Single White Female
Single White Female won Leigh the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain, after her character copied her roommate's haircut and wardrobe.
Q 02Which antique instrument was accidentally destroyed during Jennifer Jason Leigh's scene in The Hateful Eight?
A guitar
A guitar made in the 1870s, on loan from the Martin museum, was smashed by a co-star who was never told to swap it for a copy. Leigh's shock on screen is real.
Q 03Jennifer Jason Leigh's scenes were cut from which Stanley Kubrick film after she was unavailable for reshoots?
Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut lost Leigh's turn as Marion, the grieving daughter of a dead patient, when she was busy on another film, so Marie Richardson replaced her.
Q 04Actress Jennifer Leigh Morrow took the middle name of her screen name to honor which family friend?
Jason Robards
Jason Robards, a two-time Oscar winner and a friend of her parents, gave Leigh the name she adopted when she dropped Morrow early in her career.
Q 05Jennifer Jason Leigh made her Broadway debut in 1998 as nightclub singer Sally Bowles in which musical?
Cabaret
Cabaret was playing in Sam Mendes's revival when Leigh took over Sally Bowles from Natasha Richardson, who originated the role in that production.
Q 06Which actress plays Linda, best friend of Jennifer Jason Leigh's Stacy, in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
Phoebe Cates
Phoebe Cates later came out of retirement as a favor to Leigh, acting in The Anniversary Party, the film Leigh co-directed.
Q 07Which actor plays John Ruth, the bounty hunter handcuffed to Jennifer Jason Leigh's fugitive in The Hateful Eight?
Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell's John Ruth is nicknamed the Hangman because he always delivers his bounties alive to the gallows, which is why Daisy Domergue is chained to his wrist.
Q 08Which director cast Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hateful Eight and had her narrate the audiobook of his novel?
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino first met Jennifer Lawrence about the part of Daisy Domergue, but she declined, and Leigh went on to her first Oscar nomination.
Q 09Which Stephen King adaptation casts Jennifer Jason Leigh as the estranged daughter of Kathy Bates's housekeeper?
Dolores Claiborne
Dolores Claiborne has Leigh play Selena, a New York journalist who comes home to a Maine island when her mother is accused of murder.
Q 10Jennifer Jason Leigh's father, actor Vic Morrow, died in a helicopter accident on the set of which film?
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Twilight Zone: The Movie was shooting a night scene in 1982 when the crash killed Morrow and two child actors, a tragedy that brought new safety standards to American film sets.
Q 11Jennifer Jason Leigh plays an alderman's aide who dates William Baldwin's character in which Ron Howard film?
Backdraft
Backdraft has her character rekindle a romance with a Chicago firefighter while her boss backs budget cuts to the fire department.
Q 12In which Sam Mendes crime drama does Jennifer Jason Leigh play Annie, wife of Tom Hanks's mob enforcer?
Road to Perdition
Road to Perdition gives Leigh only a brief part: Annie and her younger son are murdered early, which sends the father and his surviving boy on the run.
Q 13In which Alex Garland film does Jennifer Jason Leigh's Dr. Ventress lead scientists into the Shimmer?
Annihilation
Q 21Which Algonquin Round Table writer did Jennifer Jason Leigh portray in a 1994 film directed by Alan Rudolph?
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker brought Leigh a Golden Globe nomination and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress, in a film about the wits who met almost daily at a Manhattan hotel.
Q 22Which drama, written by Jennifer Jason Leigh's mother, cast Leigh as barroom punk singer Sadie Flood?
Georgia
Georgia is named for Sadie's sister, a folk star played by Mare Winningham, who had been Leigh's camp counselor when they were teenagers.
Q 23In which Coen brothers comedy does Jennifer Jason Leigh play Amy Archer, a fast-talking Pulitzer-winning reporter?
The Hudsucker Proxy
Annihilation sends Leigh's psychologist and Natalie Portman's biologist into a quarantined area of mutating plants and animals where earlier expeditions vanished.
Q 14Jennifer Jason Leigh plays Stevie, who comforts Christian Bale's emaciated insomniac, in which thriller?
The Machinist
The Machinist drew attention because Bale lost 62 pounds to play Trevor Reznik, a loner who has been unable to sleep for an entire year.
Q 15Which stop-motion Charlie Kaufman film has Jennifer Jason Leigh voice the one person its hero hears as unique?
Anomalisa
Anomalisa has every other character voiced by Tom Noonan, so Leigh's Lisa, whom he meets in a Cincinnati hotel, is the only one who sounds different to the hero.
Q 16In which Netflix series does Jennifer Jason Leigh play Elsa, overprotective mother of an autistic teenager?
Atypical
Atypical was first known as Antarctica, the special interest of Sam, the penguin-loving 18-year-old at the center of the story.
Q 17Jennifer Jason Leigh plays Lorraine Lyon, billionaire boss of a debt collection agency, in which FX series?
Fargo
Fargo's fifth season nicknames Lorraine the Queen of Debt and makes her the wealthy, arrogant mother-in-law of Juno Temple's Dot.
Q 18Jennifer Jason Leigh played Jill, estranged sister of Nancy Botwin, in sixteen episodes of which Showtime series?
Weeds
Weeds brought Leigh in as the Connecticut sister whose house the Botwin family finally settles in, and she became a regular guest by the eighth season.
Q 19Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tim Roth played married contract killers in which cult series when it returned in 2017?
Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks reunited Leigh, as hired gun Chantal Hutchens, with Roth two years after they shared the screen in The Hateful Eight; she appears in six episodes.
Q 20In which David Cronenberg film does Jennifer Jason Leigh play Allegra Geller, a game designer hunted by assassins?
Existenz
Existenz has players plug living game pods into ports in their spines, and Leigh's designer becomes a target while playing a virtual world of her own creation.
The Hudsucker Proxy followed two failed Coen auditions for Leigh, who read biographies of Katharine Hepburn and Jean Arthur to build the rapid-fire newspaperwoman.
Q 24Which director, called a mentor by Jennifer Jason Leigh, cast her in both Short Cuts and Kansas City?
Robert Altman
Robert Altman cast her as a phone-sex operator working from home in Short Cuts, then as a Jean Harlow-obsessed kidnapper in Kansas City.
Q 25Which actor starred opposite Jennifer Jason Leigh in both Flesh and Blood and The Hitcher?
Rutger Hauer
Rutger Hauer played a mercenary who kidnaps her character in the first film and a murderous drifter who menaces her waitress in the second.
Q 26Which actor plays Junior, the ex-con who moves in with Jennifer Jason Leigh's naive Susie in Miami Blues?
Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin's Junior hides his crime spree from Susie, and the part helped win Leigh the New York Film Critics Circle's supporting actress award for 1990.
Q 27In which crime drama does Jennifer Jason Leigh play an undercover Texas narcotics officer who becomes an addict?
Rush
Rush is set in the 1970s, with Leigh as a police recruit who gets hooked on the drugs she buys and falls for her partner; Eric Clapton wrote the score.
Q 28Which filmmaker, then Jennifer Jason Leigh's husband, directed her in Margot at the Wedding and Greenberg?
Noah Baumbach
Noah Baumbach met Leigh in 2001 while she was acting on Broadway, and the two later developed the story of Greenberg together.
Q 29With which Scottish actor did Jennifer Jason Leigh co-write and co-direct the 2001 film The Anniversary Party?
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming and Leigh also starred as the hosts, and shot the film on digital video because their cast of friends was free for only 19 days.
Q 30Jennifer Jason Leigh took over the Broadway lead in which Pulitzer-winning play about a mathematician's daughter?
Proof
Proof had Leigh play Catherine, who fears inheriting both her late father's genius and his mental illness, from September 2001 to June 2002.