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Jennifer Tilly: Roles
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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' The Fabulous Baker Boys opposite brothers Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges. A few years later, Jennifer earned an Academy Awa...[show more]
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For a while, Jennifer Tilly suffered by only receiving roles that involved some twist on playing the ever-so-dull airhead. Though she played it to perfection and often stole scenes in The Fabulous Baker Boys, Bullets Over Broadway, and Made In America, the assumption by audiences that she is just as dumb off-screen have marked her.
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Tilly first came to the attention of American television audiences through her recurring guest role on Hill Street Blues (1984–85) though around the same time she ... appeared in No Small Affair (1984) on the big screen. She had small parts in several films, including The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) and The Doors (1991), and even appeared as a body double for her sister Meg Tilly in The Body Snatchers (1993). Eventually she began landing larger roles, as in The Getaway (1994) and Liar Liar (1997), as well as leading roles in Bound (1996), Relax…It's Just Sex (1998), and Hoods (1998). She was the voice of Celia in Monster's, Inc. (2001). She was a cast member of the CBS sitcom Out of Practice (2005).
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Tilly had small roles in TV shows and movies beginning in 1983. She had a recurring guest role on Hill Street Blues as Gina Srignoli, a mobster's widow who becomes romantically involved with detective Henry Goldblume. Jennifer Tilly ... appeared as Gary's girlfriend on "the Gary Shandling Show" which aired on HBO in the mid 1980's.
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For years, Jennifer Tilly was known as "that girl with the tiny (yet high-pitched) voice that plays all those bimbos." It was an accurate description of the voluptuous actress, since she did little work outside of her typecast token girlfriend roles.
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In “Intervention,” screening this weekend at the Scottsdale International Film Festival, Tilly finds herself in a not-unfamiliar role, playing an ex-porn star who seeks closure with her sex-addict husband (Rupert Graves). Like her 2000 drama “Dancing at the Blue Iguana,” the movie was largely improvised by the actors, allowing Tilly to tap her unheralded talents as a writer and filmmaker.
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