Biography
Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is an American actress, producer, and children's author. Known for her performances in the horror and slasher genres, she is regarded as a scream queen, in addition to roles in comedies. Curtis has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA, two Golden Globes, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as nominations for an Emmy and a Grammy.
Curtis came to prominence with the ABC sitcom Operation Petticoat (1977–1978). She made her feature film debut playing Laurie Strode in John Carpenter's slasher film Halloween (1978), which established her as a scream queen and led to a string of parts in horror films such as The Fog, Prom Night, Terror Train (all 1980), and Roadgames (1981). She reprised the role of Laurie in the Halloween franchise, until 2022.
Curtis's film work spans many genres outside of horror, including the comedies Trading Places (1983), for which she won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress, and A Fish Called Wanda (1988), for which she received a nomination for the BAFTA for Best Actress. Her role as a workout instructor in the film Perfect (1985) earned her a reputation as a sex symbol. She won a Golden Globe Award for her portrayal of Helen Tasker in James Cameron's True Lies (1994). Her other notable film credits include Freaky Friday (2003) and Knives Out (2019). Her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1998. As of 2021, her films have grossed over $2.3 billion at the box office.
Curtis received a Golden Globe and a People's Choice Award for her portrayal of Hannah Miller on ABC's Anything But Love (1989–1992), and earned a Primetime Emmy nomination for the television film Nicholas' Gift (1998). She also starred as Cathy Munsch on the Fox series Scream Queens (2015–16), for which she received her seventh Golden Globe nomination. Curtis has written numerous children's books, including Today I Feel Silly, and Other Moods That Make My Day (1998), which made The New York Times's best-seller list. Curtis is a daughter of actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. She is married to British-American filmmaker Christopher Guest, with whom she has two adopted children.
Her marriage to Guest, who holds the British title of 5th Baron Haden-Guest, makes her a baroness who is entitled to use the name "The Right Honourable The Lady Haden-Guest", though she opts not to use it.
Filmography
all 175
Movies 122
self 76
TV Shows 53
Producer 6
Voice 4
Narrator 2
Director 1
Burn Out (2024)
Borderlands (2024)
Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés (2024)
Haunted Mansion (2023)
Arnold (2023)
No Place like Haddonfield (2023)
Ending Halloween (2023)
The Visions of Terror (2023)
A Different Threat (2023)
Final Girl (2023)
Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom (2022)
Halloween Ends (2022)
Blumhouse's Compendium of Horror (2022)
Magnolia's Hope (2022)
Halloween in Hollywood (2022)
Return to Sender (2022)
The Bear (2022)
Bad Beauty (2022)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Haddonfield's Open Wounds (2022)
1978 Transformations (2022)
The Power of FEAR (2022)
Strode Family Values (2022)
The Kill Team (2022)
Halloween Kills (2021)
Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts (2021)
Senior Entourage (2021)
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover (2020)
Best Summer Ever (2020)
The Movies That Made Us (2019)
Knives Out (2019)
The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019)
An Acceptable Loss (2019)
Back in Haddonfield: Making Halloween (2019)
The Original Scream Queen (2019)
The Legacy of Halloween (2019)
Journey of the Mask (2019)
The Masked Singer (2019)
Halloween (2018)
Eli Roth's History of Horror (2018)
Hondros (2018)
Tax Shelter Terrors (2017)
78/52 (2017)
Scream Queens (2015)
The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)
Spare Parts (2015)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014)
Veronica Mars (2014)
The Night She Came Home!! (2013)
Blood Is Thicker Than Water: The Making of Halloween H20 (2013)
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom (2012)
8 (2012)
Honest Trailers (2012)
Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1 (2011)
New Girl (2011)
The Little Engine That Could (2011)
Halloween: The Inside Story (2010)
You Again (2010)
Video Games Live: Level 2 (2010)
Dreams Come True: A Celebration of Disney Animation (2009)
Archer (2009)
Dirt! The Movie (2009)
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)
The Bonnie Hunt Show (2008)
Not Quite Hollywood (2008)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
El hormiguero (2006)
The Megan Mullally Show (2006)
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror (2006)
The Kid & I (2005)
The Reichen Show (2005)
Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies (2004)
NCIS (2003)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)
Freaky Friday (2003)
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest (2003)
Mike's Super Short Show (2003)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003)
Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog' (2002)
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song (2002)
Revealed with Jules Asner (2001)
Daddy and Them (2001)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys (2001)
The Tailor of Panama (2001)
E! True Hollywood Story: Joan Rivers (2001)
The American Nightmare (2000)
Pigs Next Door (2000)
Drowning Mona (2000)
The Early Show (1999)
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special (1999)
Halloween: Unmasked (1999)
Virus (1999)
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
Nicholas’ Gift (1998)
Homegrown (1998)
The Haunted History of Halloween (1997)
The View (1997)
Leute heute (1997)
Fierce Creatures (1997)
E! True Hollywood Story (1996)
House Arrest (1996)
Escape from L.A. (1996)
The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1996)
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful (1996)
The Heidi Chronicles (1995)
The Drew Carey Show (1995)
The Frank Skinner Show (1995)
True Lies (1994)
Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! (1994)
My Girl 2 (1994)
Cindy Sherman: Nobody's Here But Me (1994)
Intimate Portrait (1993)
Mother's Boys (1993)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)
The Return of Spinal Tap (1992)
Forever Young (1992)
MTV Movie & TV Awards (1992)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
My Girl (1991)
Queens Logic (1991)
Blue Steel (1990)
Anything But Love (1989)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
John Cleese's First Farewell Performance (1988)
Dominick and Eugene (1988)
Talking Pictures (1988)
Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)
A Man in Love (1987)
As Summers Die (1986)
Annie Oakley (1985)
Tall Tales & Legends (1985)
Perfect (1985)
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
Trading Places (1983)
Love Letters (1983)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Money on the Side (1982)
Wogan (1982)
Coming Soon (1982)
Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981)
Halloween II (1981)
Escape from New York (1981)
She's in the Army Now (1981)
Roadgames (1981)
Terror Train (1980)
Prom Night (1980)
The Fog (1980)
Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog' (1980)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
Halloween (1978)
The Love Boat (1977)
Operation Petticoat (1977)
Murder at the World Series (1977)
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977)
Charlie's Angels (1976)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
Columbo (1971)
The Phil Donahue Show (1967)
The Oscars (1953)
Today (1952)
Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once
Spychosis
Mother Nature
Hollywood Trailblazer: The Debra Hill Story
Eddie Murphy: As Himself
Freaky Friday 2
The Last Showgirl
The Sticky
The Lost Bus
Activia Kiss It Better Edit
Ella McCay
Kay Scarpetta
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1958-11-22 (65 years old)
Birth PlaceSanta Monica, United States of America
Height
SpouseChristopher Guest
ChildrenAnnie Guest, Ruby Guest
FatherTony Curtis
MotherJanet Leigh
SiblingsKelly Curtis
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesLos Angeles, United States of America
Also Known AsScream Queen, 제이미 리 커티스, Джеймі Лі Кертіс, ג'יימי לי קרטיס
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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