Jessica Harper

Jessica Harper is one of those actresses who burned herself into cinema history with a single performance and somehow never got the mainstream credit she deserved. Her turn as Suzy Bannion in Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977) is the stuff of legend — wide-eyed, fragile, and utterly mesmerizing against that insane color palette and Goblin score. But she was already showing real range before that, starring in Brian De Palma's deliriously weird Phantom of the Paradise in 1974, where she got to actually sing and proved she had genuine chops. Woody Allen cast her in Love and Death, and she held her own in My Favorite Year alongside Peter O'Toole. She's a Sarah Lawrence grad who clearly picked projects with taste rather than just chasing fame, and that curatorial instinct is exactly why her filmography still holds up decades later.

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Name (English)

Jessica Harper

Name (Japanese)

ジェシカ・ハーパー

Reading

じぇしか・はーぱー

Born

October 10, 1949 (age 76)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Ox

Origin

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Occupation

actor / singer / television actor / film actor / writer

University

Sarah Lawrence College

• Official sitehttps://www.jessicaharper.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jessicaharperama/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20Harper
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%B7%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q469866

Tags

• Illinois
• actor
• singer
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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