Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
1992
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Aimée Leigh. Actress: Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth. Aimée Emily Leigh (born December 19, 1971) is a Canadian-born film actress. Leigh is best known for portraying Shauna in Five Aces (1999), Sandy in Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992). She also provided the screams for Skinless Sandy in Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992).
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Aimee-Leigh Gemstone (née Freeman) was the matriarch of the Gemstone family, and wife of Dr. Eli Gemstone. She is portrayed by country music singer and Sugarland founder, Jennifer Nettles.
Aimee-Leigh has been deceased for a year by the beginning of season 1. She kept the family together and was able to assuage the petty bickering the Gemstone kids were known for. Eli rues her death constantly, believing that the family's misfortunes in the first season occurred because Aimee-Leigh wasn't there.
Following her death, Eli has a garden installed in her memory, with a bust statue of Aimee-Leigh's face surrounded by water fountains at their compound in Charleston.
Season 3 begins with a flashback, where Aimee-Leigh and Eli are at a demolition derby following Jesse's new stunt project, the Redeemer Monster Truck. As Aimee-Leigh leaves the derby, she is chased by a then-unknown figure wielding a giant monkey wrench. As Aimee-Leigh flees this individual, they catch up to her and eventually swing at her with the wrench, severely lacerating her forehead in the process.
In the "Interlude III" episode, Aimee-Leigh is shown alongside Eli during the late 90s in the lead up to Y2K. Eli begins selling survivalist kits, seeing the Y2K conspiracies as a business opportunity. Aimee-Leigh is less enthusiastic and admits to Eli that she didn't believe in the Y2K conspiracies. When Y2K passed without issue, thousands of people who purchased Eli's survival kits felt scammed since the Rapture/Apocalypse did not occur as Eli had predicted. One of those individuals that purchased a great deal of survival kits was Eli's brother-in-law, Peter Montgomery. In earlier episodes prior to the Interlude in Season 3, the woman who had attacked Aimee-Leigh in the first episode was revealed to be her sister-in-law, May-May Montgomery. The episode then explores as to why May-May had it out for Aimee-Leigh, which was in retaliation for the Y2K debacle.
Outside of Aimee-Leigh and May-May's knowledge, Peter reveals to Eli that he invested the family's life savings in the survival kits, and is now penniless and unable to support his wife and sons, let alone their Pentecostal church ministry in the Tennessee woods. Eli is revealed to have seen Peter as little more than a mark for his con, which he admits he didn't really believe in the Y2K conspiracies himself, either. Aimee-Leigh offers financial assistance to May-May, who sees through the veneer of respectability and calls out Aimee-Leigh to her face, saying the offer is more about assuaging Aimee-Leigh's guilt as opposed to genuine charity. In true Gemstone fashion, Peter, May-May, and their sons have a falling out with Eli and Aimee-Leigh at a post-church brunch session. Peter, driven into desperation, then attempts to rob a bank. Instead of making off with his loot, Peter is shot by the bank's armed security guard. Peter is able to shoot the guard before passing out from blood loss, caused by the bullet passing through his left cheek. This explains why May-May went after Aimee-Leigh, eventually resulting in Eli filing a restraining order against his sister. Separately, while discussing the various trials and tribulations that Eli and Aimee-Leigh just faced, they overtly acknowledge that Judy has untreated and undiagnosed mental illness that they've both more or less ignored over the years. Judy is shown eavesdropping on this conversation, hearing every word her parents had just said about the people in their family, herself included.
In the present day, Baby Billy and Jesse hatch a plan to use Aimee-Leigh's likeness using an Artificial Intelligence computer program and a Virtual Reality hologram projector. Believing that Aimee-Leigh's death and absence from the Church ministry is why attendance is falling, Jesse and Baby Billy hatch a sales pitch of sorts for Jesse's siblings and Eli, thinking Aimee-Leigh's star power could stem the tide of church departures such as Dusty Daniels. Baby Billy and Jesse both agree that it wasn't Eli's dry preaching style and ruthless business practice that got people to attend the Gemstones' church in the first place, but the clout and star power that Aimee-Leigh brought as a former child music star was really the main draw for the Gemstones. Baby Billy and Jesse then rent the hologram projector and try to pitch the digital version of Aimee-Leigh to Judy, Kelvin, Eli, and others involved with the Church. Seeing a realistic projection of Aimee-Leigh triggers an emotional and traumatic response from Eli, who is driven to tears given his recent feelings of despair without Aimee-Leigh present. Judy and Kelvin both hate the projection, with Judy calling it a "Babadook", to which Jesse retorts, "That ain't no Babadook, that's mama!" Eventually, everyone is so overwhelmed by the projection that one of them eventually destroys the equipment, in an effort to turn the machine off. Baby Billy later remarks that the church didn't own the machine, and only rented it from a local vendor.
Mini Bio. Aimée Emily Leigh (born December 19, 1971) is a Canadian-born film actress. Leigh is best known for portraying Shauna in Five Aces (1999), Sandy in Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992). She also provided the screams for Skinless Sandy in Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992).
Biography. Aimée Emily Leigh (born December 19, 1971) is a Canadian-born film actress. Leigh is best known for portraying Shauna in Five Aces (1999), Sandy in Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992). She also provided the screams for Skinless Sandy in Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992).
Oct 10, 2019 · While in her adult life Aimee-Leigh was most famous as Eli Gemstone’s loving wife and TV co-star, she’d previously enjoyed a childhood career as half of the gospel duo Aimee-Leigh and Baby...
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Jul 15, 2020 · Aimée Emily Leigh (born December 19, 1971) is a Canadian -born film actress. Leigh is best known for portraying Shauna in Five Aces (1999) and Sandy (the first victim of the Pillar of Souls) in Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992); in the latter film she also provided the overdubbed screams for her skinless form (which was physically portrayed ...
