Jessica Harper
Actress

Jessica Harper Net Worth

Jessica Harper is an American actress, author, and composer born in Chicago, Illinois. She began her professional acting career after graduating from Sarah Lawrence and was an understudy in the Broadway production of Hair. She is known for her cult films such as Inserts, Phantom of the Paradise, Suspiria, Love and Death, Stardust Memories, Pennies from Heaven, and My Favorite Year. Since the 1990s, Harper has developed a successful career as an author of children's books and composer of music for children. She has written four picture books and released six children's music CDs, including "A Wonderful Life" which won a Parent's Choice Gold Award and a National Association of Parenting Publications Award.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress, Soundtrack, Writer
Birth Day October 10, 1949
Birth Place  Chicago, Illinois, United States
Age 74 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Scorpio
Residence Los Angeles, California, U.S. New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma mater Sarah Lawrence College
Occupation Actress, producer, singer, author
Spouse(s) Tom Rothman (m. 1989)
Children 2

💰 Net worth: $1.3 Million (2024)

Jessica Harper's net worth is estimated to be $1.3 million in 2024. Hailing from the United States, she is best known for her versatility as an actress, soundtrack artist, and writer. With a career spanning decades, Harper has made significant contributions to the entertainment industry, showcasing her talent and passion in various mediums. Her impressive net worth is a testament to her success and the recognition she has garnered throughout her career.

Biography/Timeline

1980

Her other films include Stardust Memories (1980), Shock Treatment (1981) (the followup to The Rocky Horror Picture Show in which she reprised Susan Sarandon's role as Janet Weiss), 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.

1989

Harper married Thomas Edgar Rothman, a top executive at Sony Pictures (formerly of Columbia Pictures) on March 11, 1989. She has two daughters, Elizabeth and Nora, who are featured on her children's albums and books. Harper resides in Los Angeles, California, and New York City.

2004

She has written eleven books for children, and made seven albums of songs for children. She was named by Parenting magazine as "Parent of the Month" in 2004. In 2000, she sang background vocals on selected tracks on the Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks album Beatin' the Heat.

2005

Harper has appeared in more than twenty motion pictures, most notably in My Favorite Year, alongside Peter O'Toole and Mark Linn-Baker; and costarring with Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters in Pennies from Heaven. Woody Allen featured her in his films Stardust Memories and Love and Death. She appeared in the fourth season of It's Garry Shandling's Show and in the Steven Spielberg/Tom Cruise film Minority Report. She was seen in a 2005 episode ("Forget Me Not") of the television series Crossing Jordan.

2010

In December 2010, Harper released a cookbook titled The Crabby Cook Cookbook: Recipes and Rants. In a January 2011 interview Harper said, "I thought it was high time there was a book that acknowledged that not everybody experiences the joy of cooking, that sometimes cooking for a family on a daily basis can be really irritating! This book, with 135 easy recipes, is for those people, crabby cooks like me! It's a collection of humor, survival tips and recipes, for the kitchen-challenged!" In March 2011, she was on tour promoting her book. Stops included Chicago, where she held a "Lunch and Learn with Jessica Harper".

2017

In a blog post on her official website in 2017, Harper revealed she had suffered from neovascular macular degeneration for the past fifteen years, and that she receives injections in her eye every six weeks to treat the condition.

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