Jennifer Tilly
Jennifer Tilly was born September 16, 1958, in Harbor City, California. She is a Hollywood actress who stared in many films during the last twenty years and got an Oscar nomination for the 1994 film "Bullets over Broadway". Besides being a Hollywood personality, she is also a new personality at the poker world.
Hollywood
Tilly started her acting career with a role as an extra on Days of Our Lives. That year she was cast as Shannon Winters on the sitcom, Shaping Up, and followed it up with guest appearances on "Remington Steele", "Cheers", and another recurring role on "It's Gary Shandling's Show".
Tilly appeared in bit parts, in films such as her role as auditioning singer Blanche "Monica" Moran in 1989's"The Fabulous Baker Boys". Her big Hollywood break was when she played Olive Neal in Woody Allen's "Bullets over Broadway", in 1994, on which she was nominated. In 1998 Tilly played the wife of a terrorizing doll, in "The Bride of Chucky" and. In 1999, she lent her voice to "The Family Guy" and "Stuart Little", appeared as herself in "The Muse" and In 2000 she played a stripper in "The Crew".
Her first poker appearance was on the World Poker Tour television show, Hollywood Home Game, where she finished second to Ming Na. After the show was broadcast, she had officially become a member of the poker community.
Poker Pro
Tilly has won the Ladies No Limit Texas Holdem event at the 2005 World Series of Poker. Two months later she won at the third World Poker Tour Ladies Invitational event at the Bicycle Casino.
Poker Pair
Tilly met her boyfriend poker player Phil Laak (also known as "the Unabomber") as she entered deeper into the world of poker. When she won her poker bracelet, she told one of the reporters that Phil taught her everything she knows about poker. At the same time of her win, Phil finished second place in the $2500 Pot Limit Holdem event.
