Jessica Harper
Jessica Harper (born October 10, 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), and Minority Report (2002). In addition to acting, Harper is also an author of children's music and books.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.146 |
Birthday | 1949-10-10 |
Place of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Also Known As | 제시카 하퍼, |
1980
Stardust Memories
7/425
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
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Stardust Memories
1982
My Favorite Year
6.8/103
Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the va...
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My Favorite Year
1975
Inserts
6/40
A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his decaying mansion to m...
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Inserts
1974
Phantom of the Paradise
7.459/658
Fledgling singer-songwriter Winslow Leach finds himself double-crossed by the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both his music and the girl Wi...
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Phantom of the Paradise
1981
Shock Treatment
5.837/89
Brad and Janet are now married and on the rocks. Ostensibly to fix their marriage, the couple goes on the game show 'Marriage Maze' with the eccentric...
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Shock Treatment
1981
Pennies from Heaven
6.023/88
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school te...
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Pennies from Heaven
2021
Rocky Horror 45: The Movie
10/2
Underground filmmaker Manny Velazquez dives into the immortal history and legacy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and its lesser known sequel Shock Tr...
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Rocky Horror 45: The Movie
1979
The Evictors
6.5/30
A nice young couple move into an eerie house located in a small Louisiana town, unaware of its violent history.
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The Evictors
2023
Memory
7.3/128
Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her hom...
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Memory
1986
The Imagemaker
5/1
Roger Blackwell has been a media advisor to countless politicians: probably one too many. He is set on using his experience to make a film about manip...
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The Imagemaker
1985
The Tear Collector
0/0
A young woman who can't stop crying meets a mysterious man who collects tears.
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The Tear Collector
1989
Eat a Bowl of Tea
5.7/13
An American-Chinese man brings over his wife from China to America, but the challenges of making a living and adjusting to a new life, plus the attent...
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Eat a Bowl of Tea
1975
Love and Death
7.5/883
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
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Love and Death
1995
Safe
7/294
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
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Safe
1980
To Woody Allen from Europe with Love
1/1
Initiated by producer-director Pierre Drouot, Woody Allen for the very first time agrees to let a filmmaker, Belgium's André Delvaux, film him during...
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To Woody Allen from Europe with Love
2001
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
6.6/14
Documentary that explores Argento's film career.
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Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2022
The Lady of the Dunes
0/0
In 1974, an unidentified woman is found murdered in the dunes of Provincetown. 47 years later, new insight and developments unfold as her story contin...
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The Lady of the Dunes
2002
Minority Report
7.349/8640
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the...
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Minority Report
1988
The Blue Iguana
3.6/14
To stay out of the slammer, down-on-his-luck bounty hunter Vince Holloway reluctantly agrees to do the bidding of two crooked IRS agents. Tasked with...
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The Blue Iguana
1997
On the Edge of Innocence
5/4
Teenage Zoe Tyler suffers from manic-depression. With a musician father who is never around life seems hard. Zoe eventually lands up in a psychiatric...
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On the Edge of Innocence
2018
Suspiria
6.915/2501
Young American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Company. When she vaults to the rol...
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Suspiria
1989
Big Man on Campus
6.2/17
In this version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", a hunchback is found living in the bell tower of UCLA. He discovers life as two students bring him o...
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Big Man on Campus
1993
Mr. Wonderful
5.688/40
Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfil a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some of his friends, but first he must find his ex-wif...
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Mr. Wonderful
1996
Boys
5.4/44
Fed up with boarding school and frustrated with the way others have planned his life, John Baker Jr. wants a change -- anything to shake up his staid...
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Boys
1974
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
7.9/7
Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.
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‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
2001
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
6/4
Documentary about the shooting of 'Suspiria' that details everything that lovers of horror genre can desire, including the inspiration of the plot, th...
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Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2006
Paradise Regained: Brian de Palma's 'Phantom of the Paradise'
5.5/2
A 50-minute documentary on the making of the film featuring director Brian De Palma, producer Edward R. Pressman, the late star William Finley, star a...
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Paradise Regained: Brian de Palma's 'Phantom of the Paradise'
1973
The Garden Party
7/1
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The Garden Party
1985
When Dreams Come True
5.7/3
A Dallas museum tour guide finds herself having dreams that foretell killings that are attributed to a killer known as "The Perfect Murderer." She ask...
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When Dreams Come True
1971
Taking Off
6.9/81
Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose chil...
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Taking Off
1977
Suspiria
7.5/2903
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly...
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Suspiria
2022
Bones and All
7.1/1328
Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter....
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Bones and All
2024
Nightbitch
0/0
A woman, thrown into the stay-at-home routine of raising a toddler in the suburbs, slowly embraces the feral power deeply rooted in motherhood, as she...
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Nightbitch
2009
House Broken
5.2/87
In order to enjoy his retirement, a father takes drastic measures to get his twentysomething, slacker sons to move out and fend for themselves.
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