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Jamie Lee Curtis
Born · November 22, 1958 (66 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Bio
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.
Freakier Friday
Tess Coleman
0.0
2025
The Last Showgirl
Annette
0.0
2024
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
Self
0.0
2024
Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés
Self
0.0
2024
Haunted Mansion
Madame Leota
6.5
2023
Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom
Self (archive footage)
7.2
2022
Halloween in Hollywood
Self
0.0
2022
Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once
Self
10.0
2022
An Acceptable Loss
Rachel Burke
6.2
2019
Halloween
Laurie Strode
6.6
2018
78/52
Self
7.3
2017
Spare Parts
Principal
7.2
2015
The Horrors of Hamilton High: The Making of Prom Night
Self (archive footage)
8.5
2014
Veronica Mars
Gayle Buckley
6.6
2014
The Night She Came Home!!
Self
9.6
2013
Blood Is Thicker Than Water: The Making of Halloween H20
Self
8.8
2013
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
Self
6.8
2012
8
Sandy Stier
0.0
2012
The Little Engine That Could
Beverly (voice)
6.4
2011
You Again
Gail
6.3
2010
Video Games Live: Level 2
Self
7.1
2010
Dirt! The Movie
Self
6.9
2009
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Aunt Viv
5.4
2008
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
Self
6.8
2006
The Kid & I
Jamie Lee Curtis
5.7
2005
Christmas with the Kranks
Nora Krank
6.1
2004
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
Self
5.5
2004
Freaky Friday
Tess Coleman
6.5
2003
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
Self / Laurie Strode
8.0
2003
Halloween: Resurrection
Laurie Strode
4.6
2002
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Narrator (voice)
6.4
2002
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
Queen Camilla (voice)
5.9
2001
The Tailor of Panama
Louisa Pendel
6.0
2001
The American Nightmare
Self
6.9
2000
Drowning Mona
Rona Mace
5.5
2000
Halloween: Unmasked
Self
5.7
1999
Virus
Kelly Foster
5.4
1999
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Laurie Strode / Keri Tate
6.0
1998
Nicholas’ Gift
Maggie Green
5.0
1998
Homegrown
Sierra Kahan
5.6
1998
The Haunted History of Halloween
Self
6.9
1997
Fierce Creatures
Willa Weston
6.2
1997
House Arrest
Janet Beindorf
5.3
1996
Escape from L.A.
Female Narrator (uncredited)
5.9
1996
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Self
10.0
1996
The Heidi Chronicles
Heidi Holland
7.5
1995
True Lies
Helen Tasker
7.1
1994
My Girl 2
Shelly Sultenfuss
5.9
1994
Cindy Sherman: Nobody's Here But Me
Narrator (voice)
9.0
1994
Mother's Boys
Judith 'Jude' Madigan
5.3
1993
Forever Young
Claire Cooper
6.5
1992
My Girl
Shelly DeVoto
7.4
1991
Queens Logic
Grace
5.8
1991
Blue Steel
Megan Turner
5.8
1990
A Fish Called Wanda
Wanda Gershwitz
7.2
1988
Dominick and Eugene
Jennifer Reston
6.8
1988
Amazing Grace and Chuck
Lynn Taylor
5.7
1987
A Man in Love
Susan Elliott
4.3
1987
As Summers Die
Whitsey Loftin
6.2
1986
Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley
0.0
1985
Perfect
Jessie Wilson
5.6
1985
Grandview, U.S.A.
Michelle 'Mike' Cody
6.0
1984
Trading Places
Ophelia
7.2
1983
Love Letters
Anna Winter
5.6
1983
Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story
Dorothy Stratten
5.3
1981
Halloween II
Laurie Strode
6.6
1981
Roadgames
Pamela 'Hitch' Rushworth
6.5
1981
Terror Train
Alana Maxwell
5.7
1980
Prom Night
Kimberly Hammond
5.7
1980
The Fog
Elizabeth Solley
6.7
1980
Spychosis
Jamie
0.0
Hollywood Trailblazer: The Debra Hill Story
0.0
Ella McCay
0.0
Activia Kiss It Better Edit
0.0
Borderlands
Tannis
5.8
2024
Halloween Ends
Laurie
6.1
2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Deirdre Beaubeirdre
7.8
2022
Halloween Kills
Laurie Strode
6.4
2021
Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts
Self · (1 episode)
4.7
2021
Senior Entourage
Jamie
2.0
2021
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
Jamie Lee Curtis
7.1
2020
Knives Out
Linda Drysdale
7.8
2019
The Masked Singer
Special Message (video) · (1 episode)
7.8
2019
Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1
Self (archive footage)
7.0
2011
Halloween: The Inside Story
Self
7.4
2010
Not Quite Hollywood
Self
6.8
2008
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self · (1 episode)
5.8
2003
Mike's Super Short Show
(1 episode)
7.3
2003
Revealed with Jules Asner
(1 episode)
10.0
2001
Daddy and Them
Elaine Bowen
5.5
2001
The Early Show
Self · (1 episode)
5.7
1999
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Self (uncredited)
6.8
1999
The View
Self · (9 episodes)
4.4
1997
The View
Self - Guest · (3 episodes)
4.4
1997
E! True Hollywood Story
(3 episodes)
8.0
1996
The Drew Carey Show
Sioux · (1 episode)
6.5
1995
The Frank Skinner Show
Self · (1 episode)
7.5
1995
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Self (archive footage)
7.0
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
7.1
1993
The Return of Spinal Tap
Self (TV version)
6.2
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
(7 episodes)
5.4
1992
Anything But Love
Hannah Miller · (56 episodes)
5.7
1989
John Cleese's First Farewell Performance
Self
7.0
1988
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Curfew Announcer / Telephone Operator (voice) (uncredited)
5.2
1982
Escape from New York
Narrator / Prison Recording Voice (uncredited)
7.1
1981
Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog'
Self
4.8
1980
The Honey Wars
(voice)
0.0
Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter
Self
0.0
The Sticky
Bo · (2 episodes)
7.9
2024
Arnold
Self · (2 episodes)
7.9
2023
The Bear
Donna Berzatto · (3 episodes)
8.3
2022
The Movies That Made Us
Self (Archival Footage) · (1 episode)
7.2
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self · (4 episodes)
6.2
2019
Eli Roth's History of Horror
Self · (3 episodes)
6.5
2018
Scream Queens
Dean Cathy Munsch · (23 episodes)
7.9
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest · (2 episodes)
5.4
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · (2 episodes)
4.4
2014
Honest Trailers
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
6.4
2012
New Girl
Joan Day · (6 episodes)
7.4
2011
Archer
Peregrine Bruchstein (voice) · (2 episodes)
7.9
2009
The Bonnie Hunt Show
(1 episode)
4.4
2008
The Graham Norton Show
Self · (2 episodes)
7.2
2007
El hormiguero
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
4.9
2006
The Megan Mullally Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
4.2
2006
The Reichen Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
4.8
2005
NCIS
Samantha Ryan · (5 episodes)
7.6
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self · (1 episode)
5.5
2003
Pigs Next Door
Clara · (13 episodes)
8.0
2000
Leute heute
Self · (2 episodes)
3.0
1997
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
3.5
1996
Intimate Portrait
Self · (2 episodes)
4.5
1993
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Self · (1 episode)
7.7
1992
Tall Tales & Legends
Annie Oakley · (1 episode)
5.4
1985
Money on the Side
Michelle Jamison
5.2
1982
Wogan
Self · (1 episode)
4.5
1982
Coming Soon
Herself
6.3
1982
She's in the Army Now
Pvt. Rita Jennings
4.7
1981
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Jen Burton · (1 episode)
6.9
1979
Halloween
Laurie
7.6
1978
The Love Boat
Linda · (1 episode)
6.3
1977
Operation Petticoat
Lt. Barbara Duran · (23 episodes)
7.0
1977
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
(1 episode)
7.0
1977
Quincy, M.E.
Girl in Dressing Room · (1 episode)
7.5
1976
Charlie's Angels
Linda Frye · (1 episode)
6.7
1976
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · (2 episodes)
6.9
1975
Columbo
Waitress · (1 episode)
8.1
1971
The Oscars
Self · (4 episodes)
7.0
1953
Today
Self · (1 episode)
5.5
1952
Scarpetta
Dorothy · (2 episodes)
0.0
The Oscars
Self - Presenter · (1 episode)
7.0
1953
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter · (3 episodes)
6.8
1944
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · (3 episodes)
6.8
1944
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Winner · (1 episode)
6.8
1944
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee/Presenter · (1 episode)
6.8
1944