She portrayed gossip columnist Louella Parsons in the Peter Bogdanovich historical drama The Cat's Meow (2001). In Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000), she played a stripper and part-time dominatrix. She played Samantha Cole in the Jim Carrey comedy Liar Liar (1997). Tilly starred in Bound (1996), directed by The Wachowskis, which portrays a lesbian relationship her character has with Gina Gershon.
In 1994, she also had a small role in The Getaway with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Olive Neal, a hopelessly bad actress in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway but she lost to her co-star Dianne Wiest. Tilly's breakthrough film role was short but memorable appearance as a waitress who fails miserably when auditioning to be a singer in The Fabulous Baker Boys, a role that was written specially for her by Steve Kloves. In 1989, she had a prominent role in the comedy Let It Ride, starring Richard Dreyfuss. She was also cast as a high-end prostitute on the short-lived comedy Key West, alongside Fisher Stevens. She appeared as Garry's girlfriend on It's Garry Shandling's Show, which aired on Showtime. She played Frasier Crane's seductive-but-ditzy date Candi Pearson on an episode of the fourth season of Cheers and appeared as a similar character on the eleventh season of Frasier. In 1983, Tilly had small roles and had a recurring guest role on Hill Street Blues as Gina Srignoli, a mobster's widow who becomes romantically involved with detective Henry Goldblume. Tilly holds a bachelor's degree in theater from Stephens College in Missouri. The family then moved to Langford, a suburb of Victoria BC, where Tilly attended Belmont Secondary School. Her mother divorced again when Tilly was 16. Her sister Becky agreed but Jennifer did not comment on the issue. According to her sister Meg, Ward was a sadistic pedophile. įollowing her parents' divorce when she was five, Tilly was raised by her mother and stepfather, John Ward, on rural Texada Island in British Columbia. She has an older brother, Steve, and two younger sisters, Meg and Rebecca. Her father was of Chinese descent and her mother was of Irish and Finnish ancestry. She is the first daughter of Harry Chan, a used car salesman, and Patricia (née Tilly), a Canadian schoolteacher and former stage actress. Tilly was born Jennifer Ellen Chan in Harbor City, Los Angeles. She was nominated for PokerListing's Spirit of Poker Living Legend Award in 2014, and as of 2019, her live tournament winnings exceeded $1 million. In 2005, she won the third World Poker Tour Ladies Invitational Tournament.
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Tilly is a World Series of Poker Ladies' Event bracelet winner, the first celebrity to win a World Series tournament. She was the recipient of a Theatre World Award in 1993 for her performance in the Off-Broadway play One Shoe Off. Her stage credits include the Broadway revivals of The Women (2001) and Don't Dress for Dinner (2012). Tilly's other film appearances include Let It Ride (1989), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Made in America (1993), The Getaway (1994), Edie & Pen (1996), House Arrest (1996), Liar Liar (1997), Music from Another Room (1998), Stuart Little (1999), Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000), The Cat's Meow (2001), Monsters, Inc. Since 1999, Tilly has voiced Bonnie Swanson on the animated comedy series Family Guy. She rose to widespread recognition for playing Tiffany Valentine in the slasher film franchise Child's Play (1988–present), which established her as an icon in popular culture and a scream queen. She subsequently earned Saturn Award and MTV Award nominations for her performance in the neo-noir thriller Bound (1996). Tilly had her breakthrough playing Olive Neal in the black comedy film Bullets Over Broadway (1994), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Known for her distinctive voice and comedic timing, she has been nominated for an Academy Award, two MTV Movie Awards and three Saturn Awards.
Jennifer Tilly (born Jennifer Ellen Chan September 16, 1958) is an American-Canadian actress and poker player.
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