Theatre. Jennifer Tilly's career began when she was a teenager. She won writing competition and then completed the theatre program at Stephens College in Missouri. Then she moved to Los Angeles. It was a right decision and a Dramalogue Award (for her part in Vanities) just fortified the belief that she should be an actress. Movies and television longed for a star like Jennifer with her unique voice.
But this wasn’t the end of her theatre career. Quite the contrary – she won a Theater World Award for her part in off-Broadway’s One Shoe Off. In the year 2001 she also take part in The Women that was later taped for PBS.
Movies. Jennifer in Bird of Pray (1995) is one of her most successful parts. Lenny Von Dohlen (who also had one of the parts in the Bird of Prey) said about Jennifer and her sister Meg Tilly: "They have a fountain of emotion that keeps coming, even after someone yells cut, but the fountain comes from different bodies of water," he adds. "Meg is an ocean, Jennifer is a rushing river."
But Bride of Chucky made her a real star and at the same time – a horror icon. Seed of Chucky (Jennifer stars as Tiffany) just fortified this status.
And Poker. Recently Jennifer Tilly won her first WSOP bracelet at the Ladies No Limit Hold’em WSOP event. It can be said that she repeats Annie Duke’s story. But Annie Duke is not a star. And her husband is not a poker player (though she’s divorced now), while Jennifer Tilly became a poker star due to her poker boyfriend.
But there is one thing that they have in common: they are both now the most famous poker stars. Nolan Dalla said about Tilly: "I think she showed an incredible amount of talent. She had an enormous chip lead and never looked back. It was almost as though her victory was never in question."
These are some interesting facts about the piping hot poker star: She has 400 pairs of shoes. She is ½ Caucasian and ½ Chinese. She was at the 23rd place in Celebrity Sleuth 25 Sexiest Women of 1995. Her real last name is not Tilly… it is… (drum-roll) Chan! There is no wonder that she won being Chan. Just like Johnny Chan
