Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis
Curtis in 2018
Born	(1958-11-22) November 22, 1958 (age 66) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Education	Choate Rosemary Hall
Occupations	Actress producer author
Years active	1977–present
Works	Full list
Spouse	Christopher Guest ​ ​ (m. 1984)​
Children	2
Parents	Tony Curtis (father) Janet Leigh (mother)
Relatives	Kelly Curtis (sister) Allegra Curtis (half-sister)
Awards	Full list
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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).