Jamie Lee Curtis
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. She 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.
She 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.
Her 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.
She 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.
She 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.
She 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.
She 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.
Her 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.
She 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.
She 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.
She 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.
Known for
Burn Out
Borderlands
Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés
Haunted Mansion
Arnold
The Visions of Terror
Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom
Halloween Ends
Halloween in Hollywood
Return to Sender
Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Bear
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Haddonfield's Open Wounds
The Power of FEAR
Halloween Kills
Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts
Senior Entourage
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
Best Summer Ever
The Movies That Made Us
Knives Out
The Kelly Clarkson Show
An Acceptable Loss
The Legacy of Halloween
The Masked Singer
Halloween
Eli Roth's History of Horror
Hondros
78/52
Scream Queens
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Spare Parts
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Horrors of Hamilton High: The Making of Prom Night
Veronica Mars
The Night She Came Home!!
Blood Is Thicker Than Water: The Making of Halloween H20
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
Honest Trailers
Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1
New Girl
The Little Engine That Could
Halloween: The Inside Story
You Again
Video Games Live: Level 2
Archer
Dirt! The Movie
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
The Bonnie Hunt Show
Not Quite Hollywood
The Graham Norton Show
El hormiguero
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
The Kid & I
The Reichen Show
Christmas with the Kranks
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
NCIS
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
Mike's Super Short Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Halloween: Resurrection
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Daddy and Them
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
The Tailor of Panama
The American Nightmare
Pigs Next Door
Drowning Mona
The Early Show
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Halloween: Unmasked
Virus
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Nicholas’ Gift
Homegrown
The Haunted History of Halloween
The View
Fierce Creatures
E! True Hollywood Story
House Arrest
Escape from L.A.
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
The Drew Carey Show
The Frank Skinner Show
True Lies
Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
My Girl 2
Cindy Sherman: Nobody's Here But Me
Intimate Portrait
Mother's Boys
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Return of Spinal Tap
Forever Young
MTV Movie & TV Awards
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
My Girl
Queens Logic
Blue Steel
Anything But Love
A Fish Called Wanda
Dominick and Eugene
Amazing Grace and Chuck
A Man in Love
As Summers Die
Annie Oakley
Tall Tales & Legends
Perfect
Terror in the Aisles
Grandview, U.S.A.
Trading Places
Love Letters
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Money on the Side
Wogan
Coming Soon
Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story
Halloween II
Escape from New York
Roadgames
Terror Train
Prom Night
The Fog
Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog'
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Halloween
The Love Boat
Operation Petticoat
Murder at the World Series
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
Quincy, M.E.
Charlie's Angels
Saturday Night Live
Columbo
The Oscars
Today
Acting
1982
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
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Curfew Announcer / Telephone Operator (voice) (uncredited)
Writing
Production
Directing
Crew
2022
Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once
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