1. Jennifer Tilly was born on Jennifer Ellen Chan; September 16,1958 and is an American-Canadian actress and professional poker player.
34 Facts About Jennifer Tilly
1. 2.
Jennifer Tilly subsequently earned acclaim for her portrayal of Violet, a lesbian femme fatale, in Bound.
3.
Since 1999, Jennifer Tilly has voiced Bonnie Swanson on the Fox animated sitcom Family Guy.
4.
Jennifer Tilly is a World Series of Poker bracelet winner, becoming the first celebrity to win such a tournament in 2005.
5.
Jennifer Tilly won the third World Poker Tour Ladies Invitational Tournament in 2005, and was nominated for PokerListings' Spirit of Poker Living Legend Award in 2014.
6.
Jennifer Tilly was one of four children born to Harry Chan, a used car salesman of Chinese descent, and Patricia, a Canadian schoolteacher and former stage actress of Irish and Finnish ancestry.
7.
Jennifer Tilly has an older brother, Steve, and two younger sisters, actress Meg and Rebecca, a post-Impressionist painter.
8.
The family then moved to Langford, where Jennifer Tilly attended Belmont Secondary School and graduated from Esquimalt High School.
9.
Jennifer Tilly earned a bachelor's degree in theater from Stephens College in Missouri.
10.
In 1983, Jennifer 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.
11.
Jennifer Tilly 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.
12.
Jennifer Tilly appeared as Garry's girlfriend on It's Garry Shandling's Show, which was broadcast on Showtime.
13.
Jennifer Tilly was cast as a high-end prostitute on the short-lived comedy Key West, alongside Fisher Stevens.
14.
Jennifer Tilly was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Olive Neal, a hopelessly bad actress in Woody Allen's 1994 comedy Bullets Over Broadway but she lost to her co-star Dianne Wiest.
15.
Jennifer Tilly starred in Bound, directed by the Wachowskis, which portrays a lesbian relationship her character has with Gina Gershon.
16.
Jennifer Tilly played Samantha Cole in the Jim Carrey comedy Liar Liar.
17.
Jennifer Tilly portrayed gossip columnist Louella Parsons in the Peter Bogdanovich historical drama The Cat's Meow.
18.
Jennifer Tilly gained additional popularity around that time for her portrayal of serial killer Tiffany Valentine in several of the Child's Play horror movie series.
19.
Jennifer Tilly is a semi-regular cast member on Family Guy, voicing the Griffin family's neighbor, Bonnie Swanson.
20.
Jennifer Tilly has done voice-over work for the films Monsters, Inc.
21.
Jennifer Tilly has been active in the theatre, winning a Theater World Award for her performance in the off-Broadway play One Shoe Off.
22.
Jennifer Tilly had a starring role on the sitcom Out of Practice, which starred Henry Winkler and Stockard Channing.
23.
About this time, Jennifer Tilly started dividing her time between her film career and professional poker.
24.
In 2009, Jennifer Tilly made her Chinese film debut in the Christina Yao film Empire of Silver playing Mrs Landdeck.
25.
Jennifer Tilly regularly appeared in the comedy revue Celebrity Autobiography.
26.
In 2024, it was announced that Jennifer Tilly would be appearing on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, as a friend of the housewives, for the fourteenth season.
27.
Jennifer Tilly's father was a gambler and a poker player, and gave her the video game World Series of Poker.
28.
Jennifer Tilly was taught the real game by her boyfriend when she moved to Hollywood.
29.
On June 27,2005, Jennifer Tilly won a World Series of Poker bracelet in the Ladies' No-Limit Texas hold 'em event, beating 600 other players.
30.
Jennifer Tilly followed up this accomplishment on September 1,2005, by winning the third World Poker Tour Ladies Invitational Tournament held at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, a suburb of Los Angeles.
31.
Jennifer Tilly played in the Celebrity Poker Showdown which aired June 14,2006, on Bravo.
32.
Jennifer Tilly came in third place after being beaten by Bravo's online poker champion Ida Siconolfi.
33.
Jennifer Tilly was married to Sam Simon, developer and producer of The Simpsons, from 1984 until 1991.
34.
Jennifer Tilly has been in a relationship with professional poker player Phil Laak since 2004.