
Acting
Born November 22, 1958 · Los Angeles, California, USA
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.

Sender
2026

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
2026

Ella McCay
2025

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025

Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter
2025

Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
2025

The Happiest Story on Earth: 70 Years of Disneyland
2025

Freakier Friday
2025

Star Trek: Section 31
2025

The Last Showgirl
2024

Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
2024

Borderlands
2024

Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés
2024

Haunted Mansion
2023

Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom
2022

Halloween Ends
2022

Halloween in Hollywood
2022

Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022

Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022

Halloween Kills
2021

Senior Entourage
2021

In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020

Knives Out
2019

An Acceptable Loss
2019

Halloween
2018

78/52
2017

Spare Parts
2015

Veronica Mars
2014

The Night She Came Home!!
2013

Blood Is Thicker Than Water: The Making of Halloween H20
2013

Driving Lessons
2012
Beauty CULTure
2012

Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
2012

8
2012

Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1
2011

The Little Engine That Could
2011

Halloween: The Inside Story
2010

You Again
2010

Video Games Live: Level 2
2010

Dirt! The Movie
2009

Beverly Hills Chihuahua
2008

Not Quite Hollywood
2008

Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
2006

The Kid & I
2005

Christmas with the Kranks
2004

John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
2004

Freaky Friday
2003

Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
2003

Halloween: Resurrection
2002

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001

Daddy and Them
2001

The Tailor of Panama
2001

The American Nightmare
2000

Drowning Mona
2000

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

Fierce Creatures
1997

Ellen's Energy Adventure
1996

House Arrest
1996

Escape from L.A.
1996

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996

The Heidi Chronicles
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

Mother's Boys
1993

A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out
1992

Forever Young
1992

My Girl
1991

Queens Logic
1991

Blue Steel
1990

Help Save Planet Earth
1990

A Fish Called Wanda
1988
John Cleese's First Farewell Performance
1988

Dominick and Eugene
1988

Amazing Grace and Chuck
1987

A Man in Love
1987

As Summers Die
1986

Annie Oakley
1985

Perfect
1985

Grandview, U.S.A.
1984

Trading Places
1983

Love Letters
1983

Halloween III: Season of the Witch
1982

Money on the Side
1982

Callahan
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

Halloween
1978