• Name: Jessica Harper
  • Date of Birth: October 10, 1949
  • Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Mini-bio: Birdlike, wide-eyed, brunette American actress Jessica Harper headed for New York after graduation from Sarah Lawrence college; her first professional gig was an understudy in the "tribal love rock mu... read moresical" Hair. It would be one of the few major financial successes that Harper would ever be associated with. The actress is considered the uncrowned queen of "cult" films, among them such esoterica as Phantom of the Paradise (1974), Inserts (1977), and The Blue Iguana (1988), in which she played a female Castro! Even when selecting a "mainstream" role, Harper's choices have been somewhat offbeat: as Steve Martin's put-upon wife in Pennies from Heaven (1981), she has a musical number in which he imagines hacking her husband to death with a knife! Harper was at her most normal, and most appealing, in the nostalgic comedy My Favorite Year (1982), in which she played the girlfriend of "Mel Brooks-ish" comedy writer Mark Linn Baker. In Stardust Memories (1980), she was one of many stellar contributors to Woody Allen's impressionistic vision of fame. Offscreen, Jessica Harper is the wife of motion picture executive Thomas E. Rothman. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Replace this image with an actor photoJessica Harper mini-bio: Jessica Harper is an American actress and producer, as well as a singer and author of children's music and books. She has appeared in more than twenty motion pictures, most notably Dario Argento's slasher classic Suspiria, Phantom of the Paradise, and Shock Treatment, where she demonstrated great skills as a singer in the rock/pop style. Woody Allen featured her in his films Stardust Memories, and Love and Death. She was also featured in the fourth season of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Most recently she has been a singer of children's music and an author of children's books. She was named by Parenting Magazine as "Parent of the Month" in 2004. In 2000, she sang background vocals on selected tracks on the Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks album Beatin' the Heat.

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