Tilly: Start with your Simpsons money, use a little girl voice, and take them for everything they've got! Now, I'm needed on the set of Bride of Chucky 5.
Chucky: Time is money!
Tilly: Money is money!
Chucky: Time is money!
Tilly: Money is money!
— The Simpsons ("Gone Abie Gone")
Jennifer Tilly (born Jennifer Ellen Chan; September 16, 1958 in Harbor City, California) is a American-Canadian actress best known for such movies as Bound, Bride of Chucky, and Liar Liar, as well as for being the voice of Bonnie (Joe Swanson's wife who was pregnant until season seven — and yes, that includes the years that the show was canceled) on Family Guy, and being really good at poker.
Earned her sole Academy Award nomination for Bullets over Broadway.
Her sister Meg Tilly is also an actress. They are of Chinese descent on their father's side.
Filmography:
- Hill Street Blues (1984 - 1985) as Gina Srignoli
- Moving Violations (1985) as Amy Hopkins
- Remington Steele (1985) as Eva Wilson/Blitzen
- Cheers (1986) as Candi Pearson
- Moonlighting (1989) as Nurse Saundra
- Let It Ride (1989) as Vicki
- The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) as Monica Moran
- Made in America (1993) as Stacy
- Key West (1993) as Savannah Sumner
- Bullets over Broadway (1994) as Olive Neal
- House Arrest (1996) as Cindy Figler
- Bound (1996) as Violet
- Liar Liar (1997) as Samantha Cole
- The Wrong Guy (1997) as Lynn Holden
- Bride of Chucky (1998) as Tiffany
- Seed of Chucky (2004) as Tiffany/Jennifer Tilly
- Curse of Chucky (2013)
- Cult of Chucky (2017)
- Chucky (2021 - present)
- Family Guy (1999 - present) as Bonnie Swanson (voice)
- The Cleveland Show (2009)
- Stuart Little (1999) as Mrs. Stout (voice)
- Hey Arnold! (2000) as Lola (voice)
- Monsters, Inc. (2001) as Celia Mae (voice)
- Monsters at Work (2021 - present)
- The Cat's Meow (2001) as Louella Parsons
- The Haunted Mansion (2003) as Madame Leota
- Home on the Range (2004) as Grace (voice)
- Frasier (2004) as Kim
- Tideland (2005) as Queen Gunhilda
- The Initiation of Sarah (2006) as Doctor Eugenia Hunter
- Poker After Dark as Herself (2007)
- CSI (2010) as Terpsie Pratt
- Drop Dead Diva (2011) as Ginny
- Modern Family (2011 - 2014) as Darlene
- The Simpsons (2012) as Herself (voice)
- Randy Cunningham: Ninth Grade Ninja (2013 - 2014) as Amanda Levay/The Sorcereress(voice)
This actress contains examples of:
- Asian Airhead: Has been known for playing up her ditzy persona both on and off-screen.
- Guttural Growler: That gravelly/ditzy combo is cinematic gold. Similar to Cathy Moriarty (from another generation), she's another fine example of Vocal Dissonance.
- I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!!: She’s one of the masters of using this to her advantage in both her movies and when she plays poker.
- Mistaken for Gay: Because of the fact that she has played lesbian or bisexual characters (Violet, Bonnie who enjoyed kissing Lois at one point, and Tiffany who is sexually attracted to Nica in Cult and the Chucky series, and a scene in Seed where she hints that she has had relations with women), some people think she herself is bisexual in real life. However, she is in fact straight.
- Ms. Fanservice: Most, if not all, of her roles are this. The best known are the lesbian Femme Fatale Violet in Bound (1996) and Tiffany, the lover of the killer doll Chucky in Bride of Chucky (when she's human anyway). Her raspy, sultry voice probably helps too.
- Motor Mouth: She says on the Bride of Chucky DVD Commentary that she's very talkative, causing Don Mancini and Brad Dourif to laugh.
- Nom de Mom: Although she was born Jennifer Chan, she professionally uses her mother's maiden name, Tilly.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Her reputation does her more favors than her cleavage ever could. There were a couple of videos that were fairly popular in the Poker community where she's playing incredibly foolishly, but then she got better and was able to take advantage of people misjudging her.
- Older Than They Look: She looks pretty incredible for a woman in her 60's.
- You Look Familiar: She played the same character type — The Ditz with a heart of gold who briefly dates Frasier — twice, in Cheers and Frasier.
