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Janet Leigh

1927 - 2004

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Jeanette Helen Morrison (July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004), known professionally as Janet Leigh, was an American actress. Raised in Stockton, California, by working-class parents, Leigh was discovered at 18 by actress Norma Shearer, who helped her secure a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. With MGM, she appeared in films such as the drama The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947), the crime drama Act of Violence (1948), the adaptation of Little Women (1949), the comedy Angels in the Outfield (1951), the swashbuckler romance Scaramouche (1952), the Western drama The Naked Spur (1953). Leigh was married to actor Tony Curtis from 1951 to 1962. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Janet Leigh is the 313th most popular actor (down from 294th in 2019), the 688th most popular biography from United States (down from 541st in 2019) and the 167th most popular American Actor.

Janet Leigh is most famous for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho as Marion Crane.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Janet Leigh ranks 313 out of 13,578. Before her are Peter Sellers, Robbie Coltrane, David Niven, Sydney Chaplin, Chris Pratt, and Sally Field. After her are Sophie Marceau, Montgomery Clift, Pierre Richard, James Coburn, Emma Thompson, and Julie Christie.

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Among people born in 1927, Janet Leigh ranks 31. Before her are Manfred Eigen, Martin Lewis Perl, Albert Uderzo, George Andrew Olah, John McCarthy, and Rosalynn Carter. After her are Robert Hossein, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Simone Veil, Gilbert Bécaud, Theodore Maiman, and Lawrence Kohlberg. Among people deceased in 2004, Janet Leigh ranks 21. Before her are Susan Sontag, Françoise Sagan, Christopher Reeve, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. After her are Sune Bergström, Maurice Wilkins, Akhmad Kadyrov, Helmut Newton, Stieg Larsson, and Laura Branigan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Janet Leigh ranks 688 out of 20,380. Before her are Paul Ekman (1934), Whoopi Goldberg (1955), Chris Pratt (1979), John Waters (1946), Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930), and Sally Field (1946). After her are Machine Gun Kelly (1895), Harold Urey (1893), Alfred Newman (1900), Scottie Pippen (1965), Montgomery Clift (1920), and Robert A. Heinlein (1907).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Janet Leigh ranks 167. Before her are James Avery (1945), Dennis Hopper (1936), Kevin Spacey (1959), Sydney Chaplin (1926), Chris Pratt (1979), and Sally Field (1946). After her are Montgomery Clift (1920), James Coburn (1928), Julie Harris (1925), Robert Downey Sr. (1936), Leonard Nimoy (1931), and Bryan Cranston (1956).

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