Jamie Lee Curtis
Acting
Born: November 22, 1958 (age 67) · Los Angeles, California, USA
Highest Rated
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jamie Lee Curtis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Knives Out
2019
Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022
Halloween
1978
Halloween
2018
True Lies
1994
Freaky Friday
2003
Trading Places
1983
Escape from New York
1981
Halloween Kills
2021
NCIS
2003
A Fish Called Wanda
1988
My Girl
1991
Photos (7)
Movies (65)
Halloween
Laurie
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Deirdre Beaubeirdre
Knives Out
Linda Drysdale
You Again
Gail
Freaky Friday
Tess Coleman
Halloween Ends
Laurie
A Fish Called Wanda
Wanda Gershwitz
Ella McCay
Helen
Halloween
Laurie Strode
Freakier Friday
Tess Coleman
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Laurie Strode / Keri Tate
Escape from New York
Narrator / Prison Recording Voice (uncredited)
Halloween Kills
Laurie Strode
Escape from L.A.
Female Narrator (uncredited)
The Tailor of Panama
Louisa Pendel
Haunted Mansion
Madame Leota
The Last Showgirl
Annette
Trading Places
Ophelia
True Lies
Helen
Halloween II
Laurie Strode
Borderlands
Tannis
The Fog
Elizabeth Solley
Halloween: Resurrection
Laurie Strode
My Girl
Shelly DeVoto
Veronica Mars
Gayle Buckley
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Curfew Announcer / Telephone Operator (voice) (uncredited)
Roadgames
Pamela 'Hitch' Rushworth
Terror Train
Alana
Blue Steel
Officer Megan Turner
Christmas with the Kranks
Nora Krank
My Girl 2
Shelly Sultenfuss
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Aunt Viv
Forever Young
Claire Cooper
Star Trek: Section 31
Control
Prom Night
Kimberly Hammond
Homegrown
Sierra Kahan
House Arrest
Janet Beindorf
The Little Engine That Could
Beverly (voice)
Virus
Kelly Foster
A Man in Love
Susan Elliott
Grandview, U.S.A.
Michelle 'Mike' Cody
Fierce Creatures
Willa Weston
Spare Parts
Principal
Mother's Boys
Judith 'Jude' Madigan
Perfect
Jessie Wilson
An Acceptable Loss
Rachel Burke
Queens Logic
Grace
Daddy and Them
Elaine Bowen
Love Letters
Anna Winter
Sender
Lisa Barr
Drowning Mona
Rona Mace
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
Queen Camilla (voice)
Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story
Dorothy Stratten
The Kid & I
Jamie Lee Curtis
Amazing Grace and Chuck
Lynn Taylor
As Summers Die
Whitsey Loftin
Dominick and Eugene
Jennifer Reston
Money on the Side
Michelle Jamison
The Heidi Chronicles
Heidi Holland
Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley
8
Sandy Stier
Nicholas’ Gift
Maggie Green
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
Jamie Lee Curtis
She's in the Army Now
Pvt. Rita Jennings
Senior Entourage
Jamie
TV Shows (21)
NCIS
Samantha Ryan · 5 eps
Columbo
Waitress · 1 eps
The Bear
Donna Berzatto · 12 eps
The Love Boat
Linda · 1 eps
New Girl
Joan Day · 6 eps
Archer
Peregrine Bruchstein (voice) · 2 eps
Quincy, M.E.
Girl in Dressing Room · 1 eps
The Drew Carey Show
Sioux · 1 eps
Charlie's Angels
Linda Frye · 1 eps
The Masked Singer
Special Message (video) · 1 eps
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Jen Burton · 1 eps
Scream Queens
Dean Cathy Munsch · 23 eps
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1 eps
Scarpetta
Dorothy · 8 eps
Anything But Love
Hannah Miller · 56 eps
The Sticky
Bo · 2 eps
Tall Tales & Legends
Annie Oakley · 1 eps
Reno 911! Defunded
Lieutenant Donna Fritzgibbons · 1 eps
E! True Hollywood Story
3 eps
Operation Petticoat
Lt. Barbara Duran · 23 eps
Pigs Next Door
Clara (voice) · 13 eps
Self / Appearances (66)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · 1 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 2 eps
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self · 5 eps
The View
Self · 10 eps
The View
Self - Guest · 3 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · 2 eps
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest · 3 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self · 2 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self · 1 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest · 3 eps
Jeopardy!
Self - Clue Presenter · 1 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest · 1 eps
El hormiguero
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Leute heute
Self · 2 eps
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter · 3 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 4 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee / Presenter · 2 eps
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self · 7 eps
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self · 1 eps
60 Minutes
Self · 2 eps
The Talk
Self · 1 eps
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · 2 eps
Today
Self · 1 eps
Wogan
Self · 1 eps
Intimate Portrait
Self · 2 eps
Have You Been Paying Attention?
Self - Video Quizmaster · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 4 eps
The Oscars
Self - Presenter · 1 eps
The Bonnie Hunt Show
Self · 1 eps
The Movies That Made Us
Self (Archival Footage) · 1 eps
The Megan Mullally Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
Self · 1 eps
Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts
Self · 1 eps
Eli Roth's History of Horror
Self · 3 eps
The Frank Skinner Show
Self · 1 eps
Fridays
Self · 1 eps
Arnold
Self · 2 eps
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Early Show
Self · 1 eps
The Emmy Awards
Self · 1 eps
Mike's Super Short Show
Self · 1 eps
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Self · 1 eps
The Happiest Story on Earth: 70 Years of Disneyland
Self
Disney Legends Award Ceremony
Self - Honoree · 1 eps
78/52
Self
Not Quite Hollywood
Self
The American Nightmare
Self
Blood Is Thicker Than Water: The Making of Halloween H20
Self
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
Self
Halloween in Hollywood
Self
Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1
Self (archive footage)
Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once
Self
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
Self
Unmasking the Horror
Self
Coming Soon
Self - Host
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
Self
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
Self / Laurie Strode
The Haunted History of Halloween
Self
The Night She Came Home!!
Self
Halloween: Unmasked
Self
Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'
Self (archive)
Halloween: The Inside Story
Self
Dirt! The Movie
Self
Upcoming (7)
Directing (2)
Producing (15)
Halloween Ends
Executive Producer
Scarpetta
Executive Producer
Halloween
Executive Producer
Freakier Friday
Producer
The Lost Bus
Producer
Halloween Kills
Executive Producer
The Sticky
Executive Producer
Hondros
Co-Executive Producer
Sender
Producer
I Was Born This Way
Executive Producer
Best Summer Ever
Executive Producer
Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter
Executive Producer
2 Timers
Executive Producer
Return to Sender
Producer
Burn Out
Executive Producer
