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Jamie Lee Curtis

Acting 67 years old Los Angeles, California, USA ★ 6.0
Born: November 22, 1958

Biography

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.

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Known For

NCIS
NCIS Samantha Ryan 2003
Jeopardy!
Jeopardy! Self - Clue Presenter 1984
Columbo
Columbo Waitress 1971
The View
The View Self - Guest 1997
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
LIVE with Kelly and Mark Self - Guest 1988

Jimmy's Seen (7)

Knives Out
Knives Out Linda Drysdale 2019
Haunted Mansion
Haunted Mansion Madame Leota 2023
Halloween Ends
Halloween Ends Executive Producer 2022
Halloween Kills
Halloween Kills Executive Producer 2021
Die Hard
Die Hard Self 1988
Knives Out
Knives Out Linda Drysdale 2019
Halloween
Halloween Laurie 1978

Filmography

Acting Credits (169)

Sender
Sender 2026
Scarpetta
Scarpetta Dorothy 2026
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York Moira 2026
Ella McCay
Ella McCay Helen 2025
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies Self - (archive footage) 2025
Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter
Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter Self 2025
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction Maj von Dardel (voice) 2025
The Happiest Story on Earth: 70 Years of Disneyland
The Happiest Story on Earth: 70 Years of Disneyland Self 2025
Freakier Friday
Freakier Friday Tess Coleman 2025
Star Trek: Section 31
Star Trek: Section 31 Control 2025
The Last Showgirl
The Last Showgirl Annette 2024
The Sticky
The Sticky Bo 2024
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony Self 2024
Borderlands
Borderlands Tannis 2024
Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés
Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés Self 2024
Haunted Mansion
Haunted Mansion Madame Leota 2023
Arnold
Arnold Self 2023
Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom
Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom Self - Actress (archive footage) 2022
Halloween Ends
Halloween Ends Laurie 2022
Halloween in Hollywood
Halloween in Hollywood Self 2022
Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once
Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once Self 2022
The Bear
The Bear Donna Berzatto 2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Everything Everywhere All at Once Deirdre Beaubeirdre 2022
Reno 911! Defunded
Reno 911! Defunded Lieutenant Donna Fritzgibbons 2022
Halloween Kills
Halloween Kills Laurie Strode 2021
Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts
Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts Self 2021
Senior Entourage
Senior Entourage Jamie 2021
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover Jamie Lee Curtis 2020
The Movies That Made Us
The Movies That Made Us Self (Archival Footage) 2019
Knives Out
Knives Out Linda Drysdale 2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Kelly Clarkson Show Self 2019
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle Self 2019
An Acceptable Loss
An Acceptable Loss Rachel Burke 2019
The Masked Singer
The Masked Singer Special Message (video) 2019
Halloween
Halloween Laurie Strode 2018
Eli Roth's History of Horror
Eli Roth's History of Horror Self 2018
78/52
78/52 Self 2017
Scream Queens
Scream Queens Dean Cathy Munsch 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Self - Guest 2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Late Late Show with James Corden Self - Guest 2015
Spare Parts
Spare Parts Principal 2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Self 2014
Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars Gayle Buckley 2014
The Night She Came Home!!
The Night She Came Home!! Self 2013
Blood Is Thicker Than Water: The Making of Halloween H20
Blood Is Thicker Than Water: The Making of Halloween H20 Self 2013
Driving Lessons
Driving Lessons Laurie Strode (archive footage) 2012
Beauty CULTure
Beauty CULTure Self 2012
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom Self 2012
8
8 Sandy Stier 2012
Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1
Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1 Self (archive footage) 2011
New Girl
New Girl Joan Day 2011
The Little Engine That Could
The Little Engine That Could Beverly (voice) 2011
Halloween: The Inside Story
Halloween: The Inside Story Self 2010
You Again
You Again Gail 2010
Video Games Live: Level 2
Video Games Live: Level 2 Self 2010
Archer
Archer Peregrine Bruchstein (voice) 2009
Dirt! The Movie
Dirt! The Movie Self 2009
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Beverly Hills Chihuahua Aunt Viv 2008
The Bonnie Hunt Show
The Bonnie Hunt Show Self 2008
Not Quite Hollywood
Not Quite Hollywood Self 2008
The Graham Norton Show
The Graham Norton Show Self 2007
El hormiguero
El hormiguero Self - Guest 2006
The Megan Mullally Show
The Megan Mullally Show Self - Guest 2006
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror Self 2006
The Kid & I
The Kid & I Jamie Lee Curtis 2005
The Reichen Show
The Reichen Show Self - Guest 2005
Christmas with the Kranks
Christmas with the Kranks Nora Krank 2004
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies Self 2004
NCIS
NCIS Samantha Ryan 2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show Self 2003
Freaky Friday
Freaky Friday Tess Coleman 2003
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest Self / Laurie Strode 2003
Mike's Super Short Show
Mike's Super Short Show 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jimmy Kimmel Live! Self 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jimmy Kimmel Live! Self - Guest 2003
Halloween: Resurrection
Halloween: Resurrection Laurie Strode 2002
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song Narrator (voice) 2002
Revealed with Jules Asner
Revealed with Jules Asner 2001
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys Queen Camilla (voice) 2001
Daddy and Them
Daddy and Them Elaine Bowen 2001
The Tailor of Panama
The Tailor of Panama Louisa Pendel 2001
The American Nightmare
The American Nightmare Self 2000
Pigs Next Door
Pigs Next Door Clara (voice) 2000
Drowning Mona
Drowning Mona Rona Mace 2000
The Early Show
The Early Show Self 1999
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special Self (uncredited) 1999
Halloween: Unmasked
Halloween: Unmasked Self 1999
Virus
Virus Kelly Foster 1999
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later Laurie Strode / Keri Tate 1998
Nicholas’ Gift
Nicholas’ Gift Maggie Green 1998
Homegrown
Homegrown Sierra Kahan 1998
The Haunted History of Halloween
The Haunted History of Halloween Self 1997
The View
The View Self 1997
The View
The View Self - Guest 1997
Leute heute
Leute heute Self 1997
Fierce Creatures
Fierce Creatures Willa Weston 1997
Ellen's Energy Adventure
Ellen's Energy Adventure Dr. Judy Peterson (uncredited) 1996
E! True Hollywood Story
E! True Hollywood Story 1996
House Arrest
House Arrest Janet Beindorf 1996
Escape from L.A.
Escape from L.A. Female Narrator (uncredited) 1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
The Rosie O'Donnell Show Self - Guest 1996
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful Self 1996
The Heidi Chronicles
The Heidi Chronicles Heidi Holland 1995
The Drew Carey Show
The Drew Carey Show Sioux 1995
The Frank Skinner Show
The Frank Skinner Show Self 1995
True Lies
True Lies Helen Tasker 1994
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! Self (archive footage) 1994
My Girl 2
My Girl 2 Shelly Sultenfuss 1994
Cindy Sherman: Nobody's Here But Me
Cindy Sherman: Nobody's Here But Me Narrator (voice) 1994
Intimate Portrait
Intimate Portrait Self 1993
Mother's Boys
Mother's Boys Judith 'Jude' Madigan 1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Night with Conan O'Brien Self - Guest 1993
A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out
A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out Jamie Lee Curtis 1992
Forever Young
Forever Young Claire Cooper 1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Self 1992
My Girl
My Girl Shelly DeVoto 1991
Queens Logic
Queens Logic Grace 1991
Blue Steel
Blue Steel Officer Megan Turner 1990
Help Save Planet Earth
Help Save Planet Earth Self 1990
Anything But Love
Anything But Love Hannah Miller 1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
LIVE with Kelly and Mark Self - Guest 1988
A Fish Called Wanda
A Fish Called Wanda Wanda Gershwitz 1988
John Cleese's First Farewell Performance
John Cleese's First Farewell Performance Self 1988
Dominick and Eugene
Dominick and Eugene Jennifer Reston 1988
Amazing Grace and Chuck
Amazing Grace and Chuck Lynn Taylor 1987
A Man in Love
A Man in Love Susan Elliott 1987
As Summers Die
As Summers Die Whitsey Loftin 1986
Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley Annie Oakley 1985
Tall Tales & Legends
Tall Tales & Legends Annie Oakley 1985
Perfect
Perfect Jessie Wilson 1985
Jeopardy!
Jeopardy! Self - Clue Presenter 1984
Grandview, U.S.A.
Grandview, U.S.A. Michelle 'Mike' Cody 1984
Trading Places
Trading Places Ophelia 1983
Love Letters
Love Letters Anna Winter 1983
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Halloween III: Season of the Witch Curfew Announcer / Telephone Operator (voice) (uncredited) 1982
Money on the Side
Money on the Side Michelle Jamison 1982
Callahan
Callahan Rachel Bartlett 1982
Wogan
Wogan Self 1982
Coming Soon
Coming Soon Herself 1982
Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story
Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story Dorothy Stratten 1981
Halloween II
Halloween II Laurie Strode 1981
Escape from New York
Escape from New York Narrator / Prison Recording Voice (uncredited) 1981
She's in the Army Now
She's in the Army Now Pvt. Rita Jennings 1981
Roadgames
Roadgames Pamela 'Hitch' Rushworth 1981
Terror Train
Terror Train Alana 1980
Prom Night
Prom Night Kimberly Hammond 1980
Fridays
Fridays Self 1980
The Fog
The Fog Elizabeth Solley 1980
Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog'
Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog' Self 1980
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Jen Burton 1979
Halloween
Halloween Laurie 1978
The Love Boat
The Love Boat Linda 1977
Operation Petticoat
Operation Petticoat Lt. Barbara Duran 1977
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries 1977
Quincy, M.E.
Quincy, M.E. Girl in Dressing Room 1976
Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels Linda Frye 1976
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live Self - Host 1975
Columbo
Columbo Waitress 1971
The Oscars
The Oscars Self 1953
The Oscars
The Oscars Self - Presenter 1953
Today
Today Self 1952
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards Self - Presenter 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards Self - Nominee 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards Self - Nominee / Presenter 1944
Spychosis
Spychosis Jamie
The Debra Hill Story
The Debra Hill Story
Activia Kiss It Better Edit
Activia Kiss It Better Edit
The Honey Wars
The Honey Wars (voice)
Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote Jessica Fletcher

Directing Credits (2)

Writing Credits (1)

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