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Jamie Lee Curtis
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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 ro…
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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.
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Jamie Lee Curtis's Filmography
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Murder, She Wrote
as Jessica Fletcher
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
as Moira
Sender
as Lisa Barr
Ella McCay
as Helen
The Happiest Story on Earth: 70 Years of Disneyland
as Self
Freakier Friday
as Tess Coleman
Star Trek: Section 31
as Control
The Last Showgirl
as Annette
Borderlands
as Tannis
Haunted Mansion
as Madame Leota
Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Halloween Ends
as Laurie
Halloween in Hollywood
as Self
Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once
as Self
Everything Everywhere All at Once
as Deirdre Beaubeirdre
Halloween Kills
as Laurie Strode
Senior Entourage
as Jamie
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
as Jamie Lee Curtis
Knives Out
as Linda Drysdale
An Acceptable Loss
as Rachel Burke
Halloween
as Laurie Strode
78/52
as Self
Spare Parts
as Principal
Veronica Mars
as Gayle Buckley
The Night She Came Home!!
as Self
Blood Is Thicker Than Water: The Making of Halloween H20
as Self
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
as Self
8
as Sandy Stier
Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1
as Self (archive footage)
The Little Engine That Could
as Beverly (voice)
Halloween: The Inside Story
as Self
You Again
as Gail
Dirt! The Movie
as Self
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
as Aunt Viv
Not Quite Hollywood
as Self
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
as Self
The Kid & I
as Jamie Lee Curtis
Christmas with the Kranks
as Nora Krank
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
as Self
Freaky Friday
as Tess Coleman
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
as Self / Laurie Strode
Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'
as Self (archive)
Halloween: Resurrection
as Laurie Strode
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
as Queen Camilla (voice)
Daddy and Them
as Elaine Bowen
The Tailor of Panama
as Louisa Pendel
The American Nightmare
as Self
Drowning Mona
as Rona Mace
Halloween: Unmasked
as Self
Virus
as Kelly Foster
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
as Laurie Strode / Keri Tate
Unmasking the Horror
as Self
Nicholas’ Gift
as Maggie Green
Homegrown
as Sierra Kahan
The Haunted History of Halloween
as Self
Fierce Creatures
as Willa Weston
House Arrest
as Janet Beindorf
Escape from L.A.
as Female Narrator (uncredited)
The Heidi Chronicles
as Heidi Holland
True Lies
as Helen
My Girl 2
as Shelly Sultenfuss
Mother's Boys
as Judith 'Jude' Madigan
Forever Young
as Claire Cooper
My Girl
as Shelly DeVoto
Queens Logic
as Grace
Blue Steel
as Officer Megan Turner
A Fish Called Wanda
as Wanda Gershwitz
Dominick and Eugene
as Jennifer Reston
Amazing Grace and Chuck
as Lynn Taylor
A Man in Love
as Susan Elliott
Annie Oakley
as Annie Oakley
As Summers Die
as Whitsey Loftin
Perfect
as Jessie Wilson
Grandview, U.S.A.
as Michelle 'Mike' Cody
Trading Places
as Ophelia
Love Letters
as Anna Winter
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
as Curfew Announcer / Telephone Operator (voice) (uncredited)
Money on the Side
as Michelle Jamison
Coming Soon
as Self - Host
Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story
as Dorothy Stratten
Halloween II
as Laurie Strode
Escape from New York
as Narrator / Prison Recording Voice (uncredited)
She's in the Army Now
as Pvt. Rita Jennings
Roadgames
as Pamela 'Hitch' Rushworth
Terror Train
as Alana
Prom Night
as Kimberly Hammond
The Fog
as Elizabeth Solley
Halloween
as Laurie
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe: A Life on Screen
as Self (archive footage)
The Honey Wars
as (voice)
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The Debra Hill Story
as Self
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Spychosis
as Jamie
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