Jennifer Tilly: Celebrity Poker Player
Celebrity poker player, Jennifer Tilly was born September 16,
1958, in Harbor City, California. The daughter of Harry,
a stockbroker, and Pat, a schoolteacher, Jennifer's
parents got divorced when she was 6. Pat Tilly remarried
and took Jennifer, her 3 siblings, and her 3 stepsiblings
to British Columbia, Canada.
Having to relocate constantly
with her family, Jennifer Tilly had to adjust to each new
school, and was a pretty quiet student. At 17, she started
out yet again at a new school, this time at St. Stephen's
College in Missouri, to study theater. In order to help
pay for her tuition, she contributed articles to magazines
and earned money by winning Honorable Mentions in writing
competitions. She then decided to head to college in
Los Angeles rather than New York.
Poker Celebrity Jennifer Tilly was making the television rounds, with a role as an extra on Days of Our Lives,
to a recurring role on Hill Street Blues in 1984. That
year she was cast as Shannon Winters on the short-lived
sitcom, Shaping Up, and followed it up with guest appearances
on Remington Steele, Cheers, and another recurring role
on It's Gary Shandling's Show.
Jennifer was also busy
appearing in bit parts, in films such as Moving Violations,
Inside Out, Remote Control, He's My Girl, and Rented
Lips, one year after the other. In 1988, in addition
to Johnny Be Good (which featured a young Uma Thurman),
Jennifer Tilly appeared in High Spirits.
After roles in Let
It Ride and Far From Home, Jennifer was finally recognized
for her role as auditioning singer Blanche "Monica"
Moran in 1989's The Fabulous Baker Boys. Then more parts
came her way, such as in The Doors, Scorchers and Made
in America, but she finally got her big break when she
was cast as Olive Neal, the wife of a mobster, in Woody
Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, in 1994.
The
Celebrity and poker player was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress
Oscar, in her convincing portrayal of an untalented
aspiring actress. Her past theater experience could
have helped make her portrayal of a theater actress
(not as an untalented actress) easier, as she has appeared
in the theater production of One Shoe Off and this role
garnered her a Theater World Award in 1993.
She continues winning awards
again, but as a celebrity that plays poker, Jennifer Tilly won the World Series of Poker in june 2005.
Jennifer was seen playing poker on TV's Celebrity Poker,
and most recenlty she competed and won a 2005 WSOP being
held at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas.
Jennifer was the winner
of the Ladies-Only No Limit Texas Hold 'Em event at
the World Series of Poker, becoming the first celebrity
to win an open (as opposed to celebrity-only) WSOP tournament
and earn a World Series bracelet. She beat out 600 other
women to win the championship.
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