BiographyName : Jennifer TillyBirth Day : 16th September, 1958Birth Place: Harbor City, CAFather : Harry ChanMother : Patricia TillyJennifer Tilly is an American actress and poker player. She is an Academy Award nominee, and a World Series of Poker Ladies' Event bracelet winner. Tilly was born Jennifer E. Chan in Harbor City, Los Angeles, California. She is the second of four children of Harry Chan, a used car salesman, and Patricia a lecturer and previous stage actress. Her father was Chinese American and her mother was of Irish and Finnish lineage. Following her parents' separation when she was five, she was raised by her mother and stepfather, John Ward, on rural Texada Island, British Columbia, Canada. Her mother separated again when Tilly was a adolescent, and moved to Victoria, where Tilly attended Belmont High School.[citation needed Jennifer Tilly began her acting career in her young person years through a theatre program at Stephens College in Missouri.
Tilly had small roles in TV shows and movies commencement in 1983. She had a returning guest role on Hill Street Blues as Gina Srignoli, a mobster's widow who becomes passionately involved with officer Henry Goldblume.[citation needed She played Frasier Crane's seductive-but-ditzy date on an occurrence of the fourth season of clapping and also appears as a similar disposition on the eleventh season of Frasier .Citation needed She appeared as Garry's girlfriend on It's Garry Shandling's Show, which aired on Showtime. She was also cast as a high end prostitute in the short lived comedy, Key West, alongside Fisher Stevens. Tilly's breakthrough film role was as a singing waitress in The Fabulous Baker Boys in a part that was specially written for her by Steve Kloves.[citation needed] That same year, she played a small part in the cult classic horse racing movie, Let it Ride with Richard Dreyfuss and Teri Garr, that Tilly later said "should have done enhanced.
She was designated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a completely bad actress in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway (1994). In 1994, she also had a small role in The Getaway with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.On June 27, 2005, Tilly won a World succession of Poker bangle (and $158,625) in the Ladies' No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em happening, outlasting 600 other players. She followed up this achievement on September 1, 2005, by also captivating the third World Poker Tour Ladies Invitational competition held at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles. Tilly has appeared in the GSN Poker Royale series.[8] She appeared in the third period of Poker Superstars but was eliminated in the groundwork round. Tilly played in the Celebrity Poker argument which aired June 14, 2006, on Bravo. Tilly was knocked out in third place by Bravo’s online poker supporter Ida Siconolfi when her A♣ K♥ failed to improve alongside Ida's starting hand of K♣ K♠. Tilly appears as a celebrity, rather than a poker pro, in ESPN's Pro-Am Poker Equalizer. Tilly also appears in the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions 2007 Edition video game that was unconfined in 2007 by Activision.
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