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Jeanette Helen Morrison popularly known as Janet Leigh was an American actress, singer, dancer, and author.

She was born on July 6, 1927, in Merced, California, United States.

Raised in Stockton, California, Leigh was discovered at 18 by actress Norma Shearer, who helped her secure a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Her career spanned over five decades.

Leigh made her film debut in the big-budget Civil War film The Romance of Rosy Ridge in 1947.

She subsequently starred in numerous films including Act of Violence (1948), Little Women (1949), Angels in the Outfield (1951), Scaramouche (1952), The Naked Spur (1953), Psycho (1960), Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Harper (1966), Night of the Lepus (1972), Boardwalk (1979), The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), Bad Girls from Valley High (2005), and many more.

Leigh also served on the board of directors of the Motion Picture and Television Foundation.

She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Besides acting, Leigh was an author. She wrote four books between 1984 and 2002, two of which were novels.

Leigh had two brief marriages as a teenager (one of which was annulled) before marrying actor Tony Curtis in 1951. The pair’s highly publicized union ended in divorce in 1962 and thereon she married Helmer Robert Wilhelm Brandt.

On October 3, 2004, Janet Leigh died at her home in Beverly Hills, after a protracted battle with vasculitis. She was 77.

She was cremated and her ashes were entombed at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in the Westwood Village neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Janet Leigh was survived by her daughters, Kelly Lee Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis, and her husband of 42 years, Robert Brandt.