Janet Leigh
Highest Rated: 100% Harper (1966)
Lowest Rated: 8% Night of the Lepus (1972)
Birthday: Jul 06, 1927
Birthplace: Merced, California, USA
Actress Janet Leigh's early film career found her playing wholesome ingénues in everything from musicals and Westerns to comedies and thrillers, which made excellent use of her generous smile and unflaggingly positive nature. But in 1960, Leigh's name - and terrifying screams - became synonymous with cinematic legend as Alfred Hitchcock's doomed heroine in the infamous stabbing shower scene from "Psycho." Despite her later roles, which were eventually superseded by turns as a mother, humanitarian and best-selling author, audiences would still forever remember those fateful 45 seconds of the dying Leigh, glimpsed in silhouette, her hands tearing vainly at the shower curtain as her blood spirals down the drain. Like the film itself, Leigh became an enduring part of the fabric of movie history.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Making of Psycho | Unknown (Character) | - | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In My Sister's Shadow | Kay Connor (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 52% | 49% | Halloween H20: 20 Years Later | Norma Watson (Character) | $55M | 1998 |
| 74% | 64% | The Fog | Kathy Williams (Character) | $69.5K | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Boardwalk | Florence Cohen (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | Mirror, Mirror | Millie Gorman (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder at the World Series | Karen Weese (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Telethon | Elaine Cotten (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Columbo: Forgotten Lady | Unknown (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murdock's Gang | Laura Talbot (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | One Is a Lonely Number | Gert Meredith (Character) | - | 1972 |
| 8% | 26% | Night of the Lepus | Gerry Bennett (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man Who Killed a Ghost | Glory Bates (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Deadly Dream | Laurel Hanley (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The House on Greenapple Road | Marian Ord (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Honeymoon With a Stranger | Sandra Latham (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Hello Down There | Vivian Miller (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Monk | Janice Barnes (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dear Deductible | Virginia Ballard (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 74% | Grand Slam | Mary Ann (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Spy in the Green Hat | Miss Diketon (Character) | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 8% | An American Dream | Cherry McMahon (Character) | - | 1966 |
| 100% | 74% | Harper | Susan Harper (Character) | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | Three on a Couch | Dr. Elizabeth Acord (Character) | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kid Rodelo | Nora (Character) | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wives and Lovers | Bertie Austin (Character) | - | 1963 |
| 89% | 66% | Bye Bye Birdie | Rosie DeLeon (Character) | - | 1963 |
| 97% | 90% | The Manchurian Candidate | Eugenie Rose Chaney (Character) | $1.9M | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | Pepe | Herself (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 41% | Who Was That Lady? | Ann Wilson (Character) | - | 1960 |
| 96% | 95% | Psycho | Marion Crane (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | The Perfect Furlough | Lt. Vicki Loren (Character) | - | 1959 |
| 95% | 92% | Touch of Evil | Susan "Susie" Vargas (Character) | - | 1958 |
| 76% | 73% | The Vikings | Morgana (Character) | - | 1958 |
| 60% | 39% | Jet Pilot |
Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon/ |
- | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Safari | Linda Latham (Character) | - | 1956 |
| 80% | 62% | My Sister Eileen | Eileen Sherwood (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Pete Kelly's Blues | Ivy Conrad (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Rogue Cop | Karen Stephanson (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 34% | Prince Valiant | Princess Aleta (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Living It Up | Wally Cook (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | The Black Shield of Falworth | Lady Anne (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Confidentially Connie | Connie Bedloe (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 85% | 59% | Houdini | Bess Houdini (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Walking My Baby Back Home | Chris Hall (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 100% | 75% | The Naked Spur | Lina Patch (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 84% | Scaramouche | Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Just This Once | Lucille `'Lucy'` Duncan (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fearless Fagan | Abby Ames (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Strictly Dishonorable | Isabelle Perry (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 83% | 63% | Angels in the Outfield | Jennifer Paige (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 10% | It's a Big Country | Rosa Szabo Xenophon (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Two Tickets to Broadway | Nancy Peterson (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | The Doctor and the Girl | Evelyn "Taffy" Heldon (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | That Forsyte Woman | June Forsyte (Character) | - | 1950 |
| 91% | 76% | Act of Violence | Edith Enley (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | The Red Danube |
Olga Alexandrova/ |
- | 1949 |
| 71% | 83% | Little Women | Meg (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | Holiday Affair | Connie Ennis (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Hills of Home | Margit Mitchell (Character) | - | 1948 |
| 20% | 63% | Words and Music | Dorothy Feiner Rodgers (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | If Winter Comes | Effie Bright (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | The Romance of Rosy Ridge | Lissy Anne MacBean (Character) | - | 1947 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Law | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Touched by an Angel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Joan Rivers Show | Guest | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Twilight Zone | Unknown (Character) | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder, She Wrote | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of the Unexpected | Unknown (Character) | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Columbo | Grace Wheeler Willis (Guest Star) | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Movin' On | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love Story | Leonie (Character) | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Guest | 1971-1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Name of the Game | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Virginian | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |
| 100% | No Score Yet | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Got a Secret | Guest | 1961 1954 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1960-1961 1954 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lux Radio Theater | Unknown (Character) | 1953 |
QUOTES FROM Janet Leigh CHARACTERS
Princess Morgana says: I will not lift one finger to resist you.
Kathy Williams says: Sandy, you're the only person I know who can make "Yes, Ma'am" sound like "screw you".
Kathy Williams says: Sandy, you're the only person I know who can make 'Yes, Ma'am' sound like 'screw you'.
Sandy Fadel says: Yes, Ma'am.
Norman Bates says: It's not like my mother is a maniac or a raving thing. She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?
Marion Crane says: Yes. Sometimes just one time can be enough.
Marion Crane says: Do you have any vacancies?
Norman Bates says: Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies.
Norman Bates says: It's not like my mother is a maniac or a raving thing. She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?
Marion Crane says: Yes. Sometimes just one time can be enough.
Norma Watson says: Oh. Miss Tate. I didn't mean to make you jump. It's Halloween. I guess everyone's entitled to one good scare.
Laurie Strode says: I've had my share.
Connie Ennis says: Oh, you're always so wrong about me. I have a wonderful memory of a husband and a marriage. You're trying to take it away from me.
Steve Mason says: Nobody wants to do that. I know. I'm sure Carl doesn't. All anybody wants is for you to live in the present and not be afraid of the future. You know, maybe it could happen again if you quit pretending that something that's dead is still alive.
Connie Ennis says: Oh, alright, if it will make you any happier, you're a fortune teller. You're absolutely right about me all the time. I want everything just the way it is - Mrs. Status Quo. Just me and Timmy - no changes.
Steve Mason says: And I want a girl that'll drop everything and run to me, no matter what the score is.
Norman Bates says: It's not like my mother is a maniac or a raving thing. She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?
Marion Crane says: Yes. Sometimes just one time can be enough.
Norma Watson says: Oh. Miss Tate. I didn't mean to make you jump. It's Halloween. I guess everyone's entitled to one good scare.
Laurie Strode says: I've had my share.