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