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Acting

Jessica Harper

Career: Active from 1973 to 2026, with a break from 1990 to 2015, with up to 2 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 12
top three billing

Average score: 61/100

Highest rated: Suspiria
81/100

Characters

1

The characters Jessica Harper played, best-known titles first.

Jessica Harper as Suzy Bannion

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 36 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Jessica Harper Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
4.1, average 5.4
Adrenaline
3.6, average 4.8
Warfare
0.4, average 1.2
Biographical
0.2, average 1.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Showbiz Satire 2
Existential Crisis 2
Cult Classic 2
Social Commentary 2
Character Study 2
Melancholy 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

48

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

9 titles · average score 66

Love Story

71

TV show · as Ethel Skakel Kennedy

Carousel

as Rebecca's Mother

Fantasy Life

69

as Toby

Nightbitch

54

as Norma

Memory

73

as Samantha

Fatal Attraction

51

TV show · as Sophie

The Old Man

72

TV show · as Cheryl Harper

Bones and All

73

as Barbara Kerns

The Lady of the Dunes

as The Narrator

2010s

3 titles · average score 65

See

64

TV show · as Cora

Suspiria

67

as Anke

No Peas for the Weary

Story

2000s

3 titles · average score 66

House Broken

49

as DWP Clerk

Minority Report

80

as Anne Lively

Crossing Jordan

69

TV show · as Dorris Meisner

1990s

7 titles · average score 61

Ally McBeal

69

TV show · as Sister Helen

On the Edge of Innocence

55

as Alice Walker

7th Heaven

69

TV show · as Norma Moon

Boys

30

as Mrs. John Baker

Safe

77

as Joyce

Chicago Hope

73

TV show · as Phyllis Church

Mr. Wonderful

53

as Funny Face

1980s

16 titles · average score 61

Tales from the Crypt

75

TV show · as Marie

Big Man on Campus

68

as Dr. Fisk

The Blue Iguana

23

as Cora

It's Garry Shandling's Show

49

TV show · as Phoebe Bass

When Dreams Come True

as Annie

Moonlighting

78

TV show · as Janine Dalton

The Equalizer

62

TV show · as Kate Parnell

Tales from the Darkside

72

TV show · as Prudence

My Favorite Year

76

as K.C. Downing

Pennies from Heaven

69

as Joan

Shock Treatment

41

as Janet Majors

Stardust Memories

69

as Daisy

1970s

9 titles · average score 74

The Evictors

49

as Ruth Watkins

Studs Lonigan

TV show · as Loretta Lonigan

Suspiria

81

as Suzy Bannion

Aspen

TV show · as Kit Kendrick

Inserts

64

as Cathy Cake

Love and Death

86

as Natasha

Phantom of the Paradise

76

as Phoenix

The Garden Party

as Peggy

Taking Off

87

as Jessica Harper (uncredited)

1960s

1 title · average score 48

Hawaii Five-O

48

TV show · as Sunny Mandell