Jamie Lee Curtis
Acting
- Born:
- 1958-11-22
- Place of birth:
- Los Angeles, California, USA
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, as well as in multiple comedies, she is regarded as a "scream queen". As of 2023, her films have grossed over $2.5 billion at the box office. Curtis has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award. The youngest daughter of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, Curtis made her screen debut in a 1977 episode of the television drama Quincy, M.E.. Her feature film debut came with the role of Laurie Strode in John Carpenter's horror Halloween (1978); the role proved to be Curtis' breakthrough and established her as a prominent scream queen. Her subsequent horror roles have included The Fog, Prom Night, and Terror Train (all 1980), as well as six sequels from the Halloween franchise, concluding with Halloween Ends (2022). She also gained brief recognition as a sex symbol following her role as a fitness instructor in Perfect (1985), and she won her first Golden Globe for the sitcom Anything but Love (1989–1992). Curtis' most successful roles outside of the horror genre have been in the comedies Trading Places (1983), True Lies (1994), and Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022); these respectively earned her BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Academy Award wins. Her other film credits include A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Blue Steel (1990), My Girl (1991), The Tailor of Panama (2001), Freaky Friday (2003), Christmas with the Kranks (2004), Knives Out (2019), The Last Showgirl (2024), and Freakier Friday (2025). Curtis earned her first Emmy nomination for the television film Nicholas' Gift (1998). He later won Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for the FXseries The Bear (2022–present). She also acted in the satirical slasher series Scream Queens (2015–2016). Curtis has written numerous children's books that have appeared on The New York Times best-seller list. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jamie Lee Curtis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Murder, She Wrote
Sender
Newlyweds
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Scarpetta
Ella McCay
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
The Happiest Story on Earth: 70 Years of Disneyland
Freakier Friday
Star Trek: Section 31
The Last Showgirl
The Sticky
Disney Legends Award Ceremony
Borderlands
Haunted Mansion
Arnold
Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom
Halloween Ends
Halloween in Hollywood
Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Bear
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Reno 911! Defunded
Halloween Kills
Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts
Senior Entourage
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
The Movies That Made Us
Knives Out
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
An Acceptable Loss
The Masked Singer
Halloween
Eli Roth's History of Horror
78/52
Scream Queens
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Spare Parts
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Veronica Mars
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Have You Been Paying Attention?
The Night She Came Home!!
Blood Is Thicker Than Water: The Making of Halloween H20
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
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Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1
New Girl
The Little Engine That Could
Halloween: The Inside Story
The Talk
You Again
Archer
Dirt! The Movie
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
The Bonnie Hunt Show
Not Quite Hollywood
The Graham Norton Show
El hormiguero
The Megan Mullally Show
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
Freaky Friday
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
Mike's Super Short Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'
Halloween: Resurrection
Revealed with Jules Asner
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
Daddy and Them
The Tailor of Panama
The American Nightmare
Pigs Next Door
Drowning Mona
The Early Show
Halloween: Unmasked
Virus
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Unmasking the Horror
Nicholas’ Gift
Homegrown
The Haunted History of Halloween
The View
Leute heute
Fierce Creatures
E! True Hollywood Story
House Arrest
Escape from L.A.
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
The Heidi Chronicles
The Drew Carey Show
The Frank Skinner Show
True Lies
My Girl 2
Intimate Portrait
Mother's Boys
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Forever Young
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
My Girl
Queens Logic
Blue Steel
Anything but Love
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
A Fish Called Wanda
Dominick and Eugene
Amazing Grace and Chuck
A Man in Love
Annie Oakley
As Summers Die
Tall Tales & Legends
Perfect
Jeopardy!
Grandview, U.S.A.
Trading Places
Love Letters
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Money on the Side
Callahan
Wogan
Coming Soon
Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story
Halloween II
Escape from New York
She's in the Army Now
Roadgames
Terror Train
Prom Night
Fridays
The Fog
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Halloween
The Love Boat
Operation Petticoat
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
Quincy, M.E.
Charlie's Angels
Saturday Night Live
Film '72
Columbo
60 Minutes
The Oscars
Today
The Emmy Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Spychosis
The Debra Hill Story
Activia Kiss It Better Edit
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe: A Life on Screen
Untitled Halloween Film