Jessica Harper
Birthday: 1949-10-03
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography: Jessica Randolph Harper (born October 3, 1949) is an American actress and singer. Harper began her feature film career with a starring role in Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974), and subsequently featured in films including Love and Death (1975), Inserts (1975), and My Favorite Year (1982). She is best known for her portrayal of Suzy Bannion, the protagonist of Dario Argento's cult classic Suspiria (1977), and appeared in a supporting role in Luca Guadagnino's 2018 remake. Her other films include Stardust Memories (1980), Shock Treatment (1981) (the followup to The Rocky Horror Picture Show in which she replaced Susan Sarandon as Janet Weiss), Pennies from Heaven (1981), The Blue Iguana (1988), Safe (1995), Minority Report (2002), Bones and All (2022) and Nightbitch (2024). In addition to acting, Harper is also an author of children's music and books. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Harper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Stardust Memories
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspiratio...
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My Favorite Year
Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matine...
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Inserts
A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s,...
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Phantom of the Paradise
Singer-songwriter Winslow Leach seeks revenge on the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both ...
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Shock Treatment
Brad and Janet Majors find their strained marriage put to the test on popular Denton TV show Marriag...
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Pennies from Heaven
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular ...
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Rocky Horror 45: The Movie
Underground filmmaker Manny Velazquez dives into the immortal history and legacy of The Rocky Horror...
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The Evictors
A nice young couple move into an eerie house located in a small Louisiana town, unaware of its viole...
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Memory
Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meet...
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The Imagemaker
Roger Blackwell has been a media advisor to countless politicians: probably one too many. He is set ...
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Eat a Bowl of Tea
An American-Chinese man brings over his wife from China to America, but the challenges of making a l...
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Love and Death
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo...
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Safe
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with ...
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To Woody Allen from Europe with Love
Initiated by producer-director Pierre Drouot, Woody Allen for the very first time agrees to let a fi...
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The Lady of the Dunes
In 1974, an unidentified woman is found murdered in the dunes of Provincetown,Massachusetts. 47 year...
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Minority Report
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes b...
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The Blue Iguana
To stay out of the slammer, down-on-his-luck bounty hunter Vince Holloway reluctantly agrees to do t...
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On the Edge of Innocence
Teenage Zoe Tyler suffers from manic-depression. With a musician father who is never around life see...
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Suspiria
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic...
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Big Man on Campus
In this version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", a hunchback is found living in the bell tower of U...
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Mr. Wonderful
Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfil a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some...
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Boys
Fed up with boarding school and frustrated with the way others have planned his life, John Baker Jr....
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‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image....
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Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Documentary about the shooting of 'Suspiria' that details everything that lovers of horror genre can...
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Paradise Regained: Brian de Palma's 'Phantom of the Paradise'
A 50-minute documentary on the making of the film featuring director Brian De Palma, producer Edward...
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When Dreams Come True
A Dallas museum tour guide finds herself having dreams that foretell killings that are attributed to...
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Suspiria
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a fr...
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Bones and All
Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of A...
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Nightbitch
A woman, thrown into the stay-at-home routine of raising a toddler in the suburbs, slowly embraces t...
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House Broken
In order to enjoy his retirement, a father takes drastic measures to get his twentysomething, slacke...
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Fantasy Life
After losing his job as a paralegal, Sam Stein suffers a panic attack and stumbles into a job babysi...
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Kill Me
Jimmy wakes up in a bathtub after having tried to kill himself. Or, at least, that’s what it looks l...
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Taking Off
Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search for he...
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Carousel
A divorced doctor’s carefully constructed life in Cleveland is upended when his daughter’s debate as...
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