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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