
Acting
Community Rating
6.3
TMDB estimate
Born
November 22, 1958 (age 67)
Born in
Los Angeles, California, USA
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.

Knives Out
Linda Drysdale
2019

Everything Everywhere All at Once
Deirdre Beaubeirdre
2022

Halloween
Laurie
1978

Trading Places
Ophelia
1983

Borderlands
Tannis
2024

Freakier Friday
Tess Coleman
2025

My Girl
Shelly DeVoto
1991

Ella McCay
Helen
2025

True Lies
Helen
1994

Halloween
Laurie Strode
2018

Freaky Friday
Tess Coleman
2003

Escape from New York
Narrator / Prison Recording Voice (uncredited)
1981

Halloween Kills
Laurie Strode
2021

Halloween Ends
Laurie
2022

The Fog
Elizabeth Solley
1980

Star Trek: Section 31
Control
2025

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Laurie Strode / Keri Tate
1998

Christmas with the Kranks
Nora Krank
2004

A Fish Called Wanda
Wanda Gershwitz
1988

Escape from L.A.
Female Narrator (uncredited)
1996