Real Name : Jennifer Tilly
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An actress who always attracts audiences' attention, Jennifer Tilly is by turns funny, sexy, compassionate, compelling and often all at once. Her breakthrough movie role tapped into all of those qualities failing singer Blanche "Monica" Moran in 'Steve Kloves' (qv)' _The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)_ (qv) opposite brothers 'Jeff Bridges (I)' (qv) and 'Beau Bridges (I)' (qv). A few years later, Jennifer earned an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of the aspiring but hopelessly untalented actress Olive Neal in 'Woody Allen' (qv)'s _Bullets Over Broadway (1994)_ (qv). She has become well-known to filmgoers for both major studio and independent films. In 'Tom Shadyac' (qv)'s blockbuster _Liar Liar (1997)_ (qv) she kept pace with 'Jim Carrey' (qv). Her steamy performance opposite 'Gina Gershon' (qv) helped make 'Lana Wachowski' (qv)'s and 'Andy Wachowski' (qv)'s _Bound (1996)_ (qv) a breakout indie success at the Sundance Film Festival and then in theatrical release. It also expanded Jennifer's already significant gay and lesbian following. She successfully cultivated another fan base with the revitalization of the "Child's Play" horror comedy franchise. For 'Ronny Yu' (qv)'s _Bride of Chucky (1998)_ (qv), the filmmakers turned to Jennifer to create the character who would spark the series in a new direction. She met the challenge and established a new horror icon in Tiffany. This Halloween, in Rogue Pictures' all-new _Seed of Chucky (2004)_ (qv), written and directed by series creator 'Don Mancini (I)' (qv), Jennifer again takes the popular series to the next level; she stars as Tiffany and as herself, the deadly doll's favorite actress, who soon becomes an unwitting hostess in more ways than one. Jennifer's pitch-perfect voiceover work as Tiffany is not the only instance of her being able to incarnate a character from the vocal chords out. Families know her distinctive cadences from the recent Disney hits _Home on the Range (2004)_ (qv) (in which Jennifer voiced a new-age bovine), directed by 'Will Finn (I)' (qv) and 'John Sanford (I)' (qv); _The Haunted Mansion (2003)_ (qv) (in which Jennifer acted from the neck up only), directed by 'Rob Minkoff' (qv); and the Pixar blockbuster _Monsters, Inc. (2001)_ (qv) (voicing Mike's love interest Celia), directed by 'Pete Docter' (qv), 'David Silverman (I)' (qv) and 'Lee Unkrich' (qv). She began her acting career as a teenager, putting herself through the theater program at Stephens College in Missouri by winning writing competitions. She then headed to Los Angeles. While she continued to act on the stage (earning a Dramalogue Award for her performance in "Vanities"), movies and television immediately came calling for the actress with the unique voice and visage. Over the years Jennifer has made memorable appearances on some of television's best series, including _"Hill Street Blues" (1981)_ (qv) (in a recurring dramatic role), _"Cheers" (1982)_ (qv), _"Moonlighting" (1985)_ (qv), _"It's Garry Shandling's Show." (1986)_ (qv) and _"Frasier" (1993)_ (qv). In addition, she has been a favored guest on a number of talk shows, from _"The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" (1962)_ (qv) to _"The Arsenio Hall Show" (1989)_ (qv) to (currently) _"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992)_ (qv). Those interview segments have encouraged viewers to expect the unexpected from her interplay with the host and the studio audience. Her many films over a two-decade span include 'Neil Jordan (I)' (qv)'s _High Spirits (1988)_ (qv), 'Oliver Stone (I)' (qv)'s _The Doors (1991)_ (qv), 'Richard Benjamin (I)' (qv)'s _Made in America (1993)_ (qv), 'Roger Donaldson' (qv)'s _The Getaway (1994)_ (qv), 'Joe Pytka' (qv)'s _Let It Ride (1989)_ (qv), 'P.J. Castellaneta (I)' (qv)'s _Relax... It's Just Sex (1998)_ (qv), 'Michael Radford (I)' (qv)'s _Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000)_ (qv), 'Peter Bogdanovich' (qv)'s _The Cat's Meow (2001)_ (qv) (in which she played 'Louella Parsons' (qv)). Jennifer has also continued to act on the stage. She won a Theater World Award for her performance in off-Broadway's "One Shoe Off" and starred on Broadway in the 2001 revival of "The Women" (which was later taped for, and broadcast on, PBS).
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Jennifer Tilly
- Monsters University
- The Secret Lives of Dorks
- Renaissance Girl
- 30 Beats
- Return to Babylon
- Amelia's 25th
- 2010 World Series of Poker
- The Talk
- The Making of Plus One
- Made in Romania
- Official Rejection
- Pass the Sugar
- Sam's Game
- RuPaul's Drag Race
- Imps*
- Modern Family
- The Cleveland Show
- Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema
- Watch What Happens: Live
- 2009 World Series of Poker
- An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong
- Baiyin diguo
- Drop Dead Diva
- One Lucky SOB
- The Caretaker
- National Heads-Up Poker Championship
- Bart Got a Room
- Inconceivable
- Deal
- The Wendy Williams Show
- Poker After Dark
- The Making of 'Tideland'
- Intervention
- 17th Annual GLAAD Media Awards
- High Stakes Poker
- Family Guy
- The Poker Movie
- Poker Superstars III
- The Initiation of Sarah
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
- Out of Practice
- Seed of Chucky: Storyboard to Final Feature Comparison
- The 2005 World Music Awards
- Bailey's Billion$
- The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
- The 20th IFP Independent Spirit Awards
- Tideland
- Conceiving the 'Seed of Chucky'
- Lil' Pimp
- Poker Royale: The James Woods Gang vs. The Unabombers
- The Tony Danza Show
- Home on the Range
- The 100 Scariest Movie Moments
- A Dairy Tale
- Totally Gayer
- Frasier: Analyzing the Laughter
- Love on the Side
- El padrino
- Perfect Opposites
- Saint Ralph
- Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
- Second Best
- Seed of Chucky
- The Graham Norton Effect
- Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- The Sharon Osbourne Show
- World Poker Tour
- MythBusters
- Celebrity Poker Showdown
- Tussen de sterren
- The Haunted Mansion
- Hollywood North
- Jericho Mansions
- Nowhere to Go But Up
- The 2003 IFP Independent Spirit Awards
- Stage on Screen: The Women
- The Magnificent Ambersons
- Screen Tests of the Stars
- Monsters, Inc.
- Monsters, Inc. Scream Arena
- V Graham Norton
- Dirt
- Fast Sofa
- The Chris Isaak Show
- The 2001 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards
- Sister Mary Explains It All
- The Kid
- Ball in the House
- The Cat's Meow
- Pigs Next Door
- Bruno
- The Crew
- Dancing at the Blue Iguana
- Cord
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- The 2000 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards
- Goosed
- Do Not Disturb
- Liar Liar: Bridging the Comedy Chasm
- Stuart Little
- Play It to the Bone
- Bartok the Magnificent
- The Muse
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
- Bride of Chucky
- Celebrity Profile
- Hoods
- Sin City Spectacular
- The Howard Stern Radio Show
- 1998 VH1 Fashion Awards
- Music from Another Room
- 1998 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
- Relax... It's Just Sex
- The Roseanne Show
- Liar Liar
- The Wrong Guy
- Bella Mafia
- Corazón de...
- Sundance Film Festival Dailies
- Gun
- Edie & Pen
- American Strays
- The Daily Show
- House Arrest
- E! True Hollywood Story
- Bound
- The 3th Annual Women in Hollywood Awards
- Hey Arnold!
- The 47th Annual Writers Guild Awards
- Man with a Gun
- Bird of Prey
- The 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards
- The 67th Annual Academy Awards
- Embrace of the Vampire
- 50 Years of Funny Females
- The Pompatus of Love
- Howard Stern
- Heads
- Bullets Over Broadway
- Double Cross
- The 51st Annual Golden Globe Awards
- The Getaway
- Key West
- Frasier
- At Home with the Webbers
- Made in America
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- Shadow of the Wolf
- The Doors
- Scorchers
- Dream On
- Commitment to Life IV: Los Angeles AIDS Project Benefit
- Let It Ride
- Far from Home
- The Fabulous Baker Boys
- Remote Control
- Rented Lips
- High Spirits
- Johnny Be Good
- Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
- Geraldo
- He's My Girl
- Inside Out
- It's Garry Shandling's Show.
- Moonlighting
- Stir Crazy
- Moving Violations
- No Small Affair
- Shaping Up
- Boone
- Oh Madeline
- Remington Steele
- Cheers
- Hill Street Blues
- 60 Minutes
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- * Stars in "The Women" with 'Cynthia Nixon' (qv).
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- Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!
- A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows--faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.
- Spending time with Jim on a stage is an incredibly weird experience! I found myself unable to act seriously! Hard to shoot with the master of comedy!
- I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.
- "If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now".
- I was the most popular person in my family. I was like a celebrity. All my sisters would fight over who got to sleep with me. I was always thinking up all the games, telling all the stories, and had the best clothes. I was the entertainment. We didn't have television and we didn't have movies, and I was always the boss. I'd write these plays and I'd make everybody be in them. Once, I had this idea that we'd put all the beds on top of one another so there would be only one bed, but it would be a really big, tall bed. Then we'd take turns sleeping on that bed while everybody else slept on the floor. Like, for a month. Everyone thought that was a great idea. I don't know why. I guess because we grew up way, way out in the country and we never had any neighbors.
- On her curves and her frequent cleavage baring characters; "People are always accusing me of having implants."
- [on _Seed of Chucky (2004)_ (qv)] "It's really gruesome, but it's a heartwarming story."
- About 'Madonna' (qv): "We went to a club once. The doorman opened the rope for me but closed it on Madonna - he didn't recognize her. She wouldn't have gotten in, but I put in a good word for her" (In Style magazine, Sept/2006).
- Everyone had a nickname. Mine couldn't be Jennifer "the boob" Tilly! (On her new poker career while on _"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992)_ (qv)).
- That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.
- I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it's like, 'Oh please, get a room.' [on why she never chooses roles that involve crying]
- (1996) Meg and I didn't have any connections in Hollywood. I think it's amazing that two girls who grew up really poor in rural Canada came to Hollywood and have successful careers and get nominated for Oscars out of nowhere-out of an idea I had. The thing is, we're tremendously aggressive; we say, "This is what I want, why can't that be me?" I just knew I had to be an actress. I had some vision-this was when I was seven or eight-of myself at 40, a housewife with curlers in her hair, watching TV and crying because I had never followed my dream of being an actress. I always remember having that vision.
- (1996) The first time I met 'Quentin Tarantino' (qv) was so funny. He said, "Jennifer, there's something I've always wanted to ask you" and I'm thinking, "Which of my distinguished movies is he going to ask about". He goes, "_Moving Violations (1985)_ (qv)! How did you do that scene in the anti-gravity chamber?" I thought he was making fun of me, but then I realized he was serious. My friend who was with me said, "How come I've never heard you mention Moving Violations?" So I brushed it off and said, "Well, it was like my first movie". Quentin went, "No, no, no, the first movie you ever did was _No Small Affair (1984)_ (qv), with 'Jon Cryer' (qv) and 'Demi Moore' (qv)". And I'm thinking, "If you weren't Quentin Tarantino, I'd think you were a stalker".
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