2011 - Ben Hassett - Vanity Fair - August 2011

August 2011: Jennifer Morrison


Age: 32. Provenance: Chicago. Doctorate of music: Morrison became famous as Dr. Allison Cameron, the attending physician whom every male House fan would like to be intubated by, but she also played a role in shepherding another Fox-network mega-hit into being. “Ian Brennan, who wrote the original filmscript for Glee, went to high school with me,” she says. “We were shopping his script around when [producer] Ryan Murphy called Ian and said, ‘Would you be interested in developing this material into a TV show?’ ” And next, a one-two punch: In addition to her part in ABC’s new fairy-tale-inspired series, Once upon a Time, next month she stars opposite Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton in the mixed-martial-arts movie Warrior. “A friend of mine does fight nights, and there’s a pool of money,” she says. “At my audition, I had just recently won a pool. I was like, ‘I see these fights all the time!’ ”



Photograph by Ben Hassett.

Morrison wears a bikini top by Diane von Furstenberg; sunglasses by Miu Miu. See complete credits.