Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is an American actress and author. Although at the beginning of her career she was known as a scream queen because of her roles in many horror movies (beginning with her first ever role as Laurie Strode in 1978's Halloween), Curtis has since appeared in a variety of different movie genres. Her role as Deirdre Beaubeirdre in the 2022 movie Everything Everywhere All at Once earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has also received a  Grammy Award nomination and two Golden Globe Awards. In 2024, she won a Primetime Emmy Award.

Her 1998 book, Today I Feel Silly, and Other Moods That Make My Day, made The New York Times best-seller list. In the late 2010s, Curtis returned as Strode in the horror movie Halloween (2018) and its sequels Halloween Kills (2020) and Halloween Ends (2021). She also played Linda Drysdale in the mystery comedy movie Knives Out (2019) and is well known for her roles as Wanda Gershwitz in A Fish Called Wanda (1988) and Helen Tasker in True Lies (1994).

Early life
Curtis was born in Santa Monica, California. She is the daughter of actor Tony Curtis and actress Janet Leigh. Her paternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants and two of her maternal great-grandparents were Danish.There/Hollywood, page 6, 1985, by Janet Leigh Curtis's parents divorced in 1962, after which her mother married Robert Brandt. Curtis has an older sister, Kelly Curtis, who is also an actress, and several half-siblings (all from her father's remarriages), Alexandra, Allegra, Ben, and Nicholas Curtis (who died in 1994 of a drug overdose). Curtis attended Westlake School (now Harvard-Westlake School) in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills High School, and graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall. Returning to California in 1976, she attended the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She considered majoring in social work, but quit after one semester to pursue an acting career.

Personal life
She is married to actor Christopher Guest (Baron Haden-Guest) and, as the wife of a Baron, she has the title Baroness Haden-Guest and she could be called The Lady Haden-Guest, however, Curtis does not use this title, saying, "it has nothing to do with me".

Movie
 Year  Title  Role 1978  Halloween  Laurie Strode 1980  The Fog  Elizabeth Solley 1980  Prom Night  Kim Hammond 1980  Terror Train  Alana Maxwell 1981  Roadgames  Pamela 'Hitch' Rushworth 1981  Halloween II  Laurie Strode 1983  Trading Places  Ophelia 1984  Love Letters  Anna Winter 1984  Grandview, U.S.A.  Michelle 'Mike' Cody 1985  Perfect  Jessie 1985  Amazing Grace and Chuck  Lynn Taylor 1988  Dominick and Eugene  Jennifer Reston 1988  A Fish Called Wanda  Wanda Gershwitz 1989  Blue Steel  Megan Turner 1991  Queens Logic  Grace 1991  My Girl  Shelly DeVoto 1992  Forever Young  Claire Cooper 1994  My Girl 2  Shelly DeVoto Sultenfuss 1994  Mother's Boys  Judith 'Jude' Madigan 1994  True Lies  Helen Tasker 1996  House Arrest  Janet Beindorf 1997  Fierce Creatures  Willa Weston 1998  Halloween H20: 20 Years Later  Laurie Strode/Keri Tate 1999  Virus  Kelly Foster 2000  Drowning Mona  Rona Mace 2001  The Tailor of Panama  Louisa Pendel 2002  Halloween: Resurrection  Laurie Strode 2003  Freaky Friday  Tess Coleman 2004  Christmas with the Kranks  Nora Krank 2005  The Kid & I  Herself 2018  Halloween  Laurie Strode 2019  Knives Out  Linda Drysdale  2021  Halloween Kills  Laurie Strode 2022Halloween EndsLaurie Strode2022Everything Everywhere All at OnceDeirdre Beaubeirdra

References

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 Jamie Lee Curtis interview 


Category:Screen Actors Guild Award winners
Category:Actors from Santa Monica, California
Category:American movie actors
Category:American television actors
Category:Jewish American actors
Category:BAFTA Award winning actors
Category:Golden Globe Award winning actors
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Category:Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winners
Category:American Emmy Award winning actors