Jessica Harper

Q: Has Jessica Harper won any major awards?

Jessica Harper has not won an Academy Award but has received critical acclaim and nominations for her performances, particularly in horror and musical films.

Q: What was Jessica Harper's first film?

Jessica Harper's film debut was in 'The Rock Horror Picture Show' (1975), where she played the role of a character named Janet Weiss.

Q: How many children does Jessica Harper have?

Jessica Harper has one child, a daughter named Alexa Harper, who is also involved in the entertainment industry as an actress and writer.

Q: What is Jessica Harper's estimated net worth?

Jessica Harper's estimated net worth is approximately $3 million, reflecting her successful career in film and television.

Q: What genres is Jessica Harper known for?

Jessica Harper is primarily known for her roles in horror and musical films. Her unique voice and acting style have made her a standout in these genres.

Q: What is a notable milestone in Jessica Harper's filmography?

A notable milestone in Jessica Harper's career is her lead role in Dario Argento's 'Suspiria' (1977), which has become a cult classic and significantly impacted her career.

Q: Is Jessica Harper still active in acting?

Yes, Jessica Harper is still active in acting, with recent appearances in film and television projects, including her role in 'American Primeval' (2025).

Known for

Suspiria (2018)

IMDb 6.7 / 10

2018 / Horror, Thriller / 146mins

Young American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Company. When she vaults to the role...

Minority Report (2002)

IMDb 7.6 / 10

2002 / Action, Crime / 145 min

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 quarry...

Name

Jessica Harper

Height

5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)

Born

10 October 1949, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Spouses

David J. B. C. Harper (1990–present)

Children

1; actress and writer, Alexa Harper

Parents

Robert Harper, Anita Harper

Estimated Net Worth

$3 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Fantasy Life An anxious New York law school dropout stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist's three granddaughters and falls for the...	Toby	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2026	Movie Kill Me Jimmy wakes up in a bathtub after having tried to kill himself. Or, at least, that’s what it looks like...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2026	TV Love Story An anthology of sweeping true love stories that captured the world’s attention.	Ethel Skakel Kennedy	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2026	Movie Carousel A divorced doctor’s carefully constructed life in Cleveland is upended when his daughter’s debate aspirations and the unexpected return of...	Rebecca's Mother	Not rated
2024	Movie Nightbitch A woman, thrown into the stay-at-home routine of raising a toddler in the suburbs, slowly embraces the feral power deeply...	Norma	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2023	Movie Memory Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This...	Samantha	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2023	TV Fatal Attraction An affair threatens the lives of Dan Gallagher and his wife, Beth, in this deep-dive reimagining of the classic psychosexual...	Sophie	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2022	Movie Bones and All Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets...	Barbara Kerns	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2022	TV The Old Man Dan Chase absconded from the CIA decades ago and now lives off the grid. When an assassin arrives and tries...	Cheryl Harper	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2022	Movie The Lady of the Dunes In 1974, an unidentified woman is found murdered in the dunes of Provincetown,Massachusetts. 47 years later, new insight and developments...	The Narrator	Not rated
2021	Movie Rocky Horror 45: The Movie Underground filmmaker Manny Velazquez dives into the immortal history and legacy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and its lesser...	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2019	TV See A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability...	Cora	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2018	Movie Suspiria A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious...	Anke	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2009	Movie House Broken In order to enjoy his retirement, a father takes drastic measures to get his twentysomething, slacker sons to move out...	DWP Clerk	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2006	Movie Paradise Regained: Brian de Palma's 'Phantom of the Paradise' A 50-minute documentary on the making of the film featuring director Brian De Palma, producer Edward R. Pressman, the late...	Herself	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2002	Movie Minority Report John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But...	Anne Lively	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2001	TV Crossing Jordan Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist...	Dorris Meisner	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2001	Movie Suspiria 25th Anniversary Documentary about the shooting of 'Suspiria' that details everything that lovers of horror genre can desire, including the inspiration of...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2001	Movie Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror Documentary that explores Argento's film career.	Self	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1997	TV Ally McBeal Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are...	Sister Helen	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1997	Movie On the Edge of Innocence Teenage Zoe Tyler suffers from manic-depression. With a musician father who is never around life seems hard. Zoe eventually lands...	Alice Walker	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1996	TV 7th Heaven Reverend Eric Camden and his wife Annie have always had their hands full caring for seven children, not to mention...	Norma Moon	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1996	Movie Boys Fed up with boarding school and frustrated with the way others have planned his life, John Baker Jr. wants a...	Mrs. John Baker	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1995	Movie Safe Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.	Joyce	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1994	TV Chicago Hope Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September...	Phyllis Church	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1993	Movie Mr. Wonderful Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfil a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some of his friends,...	Funny Face	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1989	Movie Big Man on Campus In this version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", a hunchback is found living in the bell tower of UCLA....	Dr. Fisk	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1989	Movie Eat a Bowl of Tea An American-Chinese man brings over his wife from China to America, but the challenges of making a living and adjusting...	American Prostitute (uncredited)	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1989	TV Tales from the Crypt Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the...	Marie	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1988	Movie The Blue Iguana To stay out of the slammer, down-on-his-luck bounty hunter Vince Holloway reluctantly agrees to do the bidding of two crooked...	Cora	TMDB 4.2 / 10
1987	Movie Once Again Aging rocker flies home to Hoboken, New Jersey, for his elderly father's wedding, meets a nine year old boy who...	Carrie	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1987	TV Wiseguy Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1986	TV It's Garry Shandling's Show Garry Shandling stars as himself, a neurotic, sardonic stand-up comedian who just happens to be aware he is a sitcom...	Phoebe Bass	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1986	Movie The Imagemaker Roger Blackwell has been a media advisor to countless politicians: probably one too many. He is set on using his...	Cynthia	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1985	TV The Equalizer Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting...	Kate Parnell	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1985	Movie When Dreams Come True A Dallas museum tour guide finds herself having dreams that foretell killings that are attributed to a killer known as...	Annie	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1985	TV Moonlighting After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency....	Janine Dalton	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1984	TV Tales from the Darkside Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual...	Prudence	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1982	Movie My Favorite Year Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked...	K.C. Downing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1981	Movie Pennies from Heaven During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love...	Joan	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1981	Movie Shock Treatment Brad and Janet Majors find their strained marriage put to the test on popular Denton TV show Marriage Maze. Poor...	Janet Majors	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1980	Movie Stardust Memories While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.	Daisy	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1980	Movie To Woody Allen from Europe with Love Initiated by producer-director Pierre Drouot, Woody Allen for the very first time agrees to let a filmmaker, Belgium's André Delvaux,...	Herself	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1979	Movie The Evictors A nice young couple move into an eerie house located in a small Louisiana town, unaware of its violent history.	Ruth Watkins	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1979	TV Studs Lonigan Studs Lonigan is a three-part American television miniseries produced by Lorimar Television for NBC, based on the 1932–35 novel trilogy...	Loretta Lonigan	TMDB 8.8 / 10
1977	TV Aspen This sprawling miniseries details the trial of Lee Bishop, an Aspen man who was arrested, tried, and sentenced to die...	Kit Kendrick	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1977	Movie Suspiria An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something...	Suzy Bannion	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1975	Movie Love and Death In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.	Natasha	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1975	Movie Inserts A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his...	Cathy Cake	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1974	Movie ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.	Unknown character	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1974	Movie Phantom of the Paradise Singer-songwriter Winslow Leach seeks revenge on the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both Winslow's music and his favorite singer...	Phoenix	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1973	Movie The Garden Party	Peggy	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1971	Movie Taking Off Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search for her, and...	Jessica Harper (uncredited)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1968	TV Hawaii Five-O Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the...	Sunny Mandell	TMDB 7.2 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2016	Movie No Peas for the Weary A woman comes to the aid of her brother-in-law after he feels he's become a victim of fraud perpetrated by...	Story Writing	Not rated
1975	Movie Inserts A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his...	Music Consultant Sound	TMDB 5.7 / 10

Fantasy Life

2026 / TMDB 6.2

Kill Me

2026 / TMDB 7.3

Carousel

2026

Nightbitch

2024 / TMDB 5.7

Memory

2023 / TMDB 7.0

Bones and All

2022 / TMDB 7.0

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Got a question about Jessica Harper?

What are Jessica Harper's most recognized films?

Jessica Harper is best known for her roles in 'Suspiria', 'Phantom of the Paradise', and 'My Favorite Year'. These films showcase her talent in both horror and musical genres.

Has Jessica Harper won any major awards?

What was Jessica Harper's first film?

How many children does Jessica Harper have?

What is Jessica Harper's estimated net worth?

What genres is Jessica Harper known for?

What is a notable milestone in Jessica Harper's filmography?

Is Jessica Harper still active in acting?