Jennifer Tilly is one of the best known poker players female, but she is best known for her acting career in Hollywood.

Tilly was born as Jennifer E. Chan in Harbor City, California, her father was an exchange broker.

Tilly is the maiden name of her mother, Jennifer, which was adopted when she continued her career as an actress.

Tilly is best known for her appearance in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, in which Tilly was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress Coadjuvant, she also acted as the wife of a murdered Italian Mafia son in Bella Mafia and how the lesbian lover Gina Gershon in Bound, Tilly also has done much voice work, including roles as the killer doll Tiffany in Child's Play, and the voice of Bonnie Griffin family's neighbor in the series, Family Guy.

When she is not representing or doing voices, Tilly is playing at the poker tables, she has a WSOP bracelet after winning the No. 1 Ladies' No Limit Texas Holdem event at the WSOP 2005.

She has also appeared in several television series of poker, including the World Poker Tour (where she won the ladies call in 2005), GSN's Poker Royale and Celebrity Poker Showdown.

Tilly said in interviews that she is now more interested in pursuing poker than she wants to continue his career as an actress, Jennifer Tilly is currently dating a professional poker player Phil "The Unibomber" Laak and was even with the nickname "The Unibombshell "in the poker world.

She was married to the producer of The Simpsons, Sam Simon, but divorced in 1991.