Jamie Lee Curtis
Born: 1958-11-22 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2028
- Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher
2026
- Scarpetta as Dorothy
- The Only Living Pickpocket in New York as Moira
- Sender as Lisa
2025
- Freakier Friday as Tess Coleman
- The Lost Bus ... (Producer)
- Ella McCay as Helen
- Star Trek: Section 31 as Control
- Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter as Self
- Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies as Self - (archive footage)
- The Happiest Story on Earth: 70 Years of Disneyland as Self
- Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction as Maj von Dardel (voice)
- I Was Born This Way ... (Executive Producer)
2024
- Borderlands as Tannis
- The Sticky as Bo
- The Last Showgirl as Annette
- Disney Legends Awards Ceremony as Self
- Burn Out ... (Executive Producer)
- Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés as Self
2023
- Haunted Mansion as Madame Leota
- Arnold as Self
2022
- The Bear as Donna Berzatto
- Everything Everywhere All at Once as Deirdre Beaubeirdre
- Halloween Ends as Laurie
- Reno 911! Defunded as Lieutenant Donna Fritzgibbons
- Halloween in Hollywood as Self
- Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once as Self
- Return to Sender ... (Producer)
- Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2021
- Halloween Kills as Laurie Strode
- Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts as Self
- Senior Entourage as Jamie
- 2 Timers ... (Executive Producer)
2020
- Best Summer Ever ... (Executive Producer)
- In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover as Jamie Lee Curtis
2019
- The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- The Masked Singer as Special Message (video)
- Knives Out as Linda Drysdale
- The Movies That Made Us as Self (Archival Footage)
- Today with Jenna & Sheinelle as Self
- An Acceptable Loss as Rachel Burke
2018
- Eli Roth's History of Horror as Self
- Halloween as Laurie Strode
- Hondros ... (Co-Executive Producer)
2017
- 78/52 as Self
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
- The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
- Scream Queens as Dean Cathy Munsch
- Spare Parts as Principal
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- Veronica Mars as Gayle Buckley
2013
2012
- 8 as Sandy Stier
- Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom as Self
- Beauty CULTure as Self
- Driving Lessons as Laurie Strode (archive footage)
2011
- New Girl as Joan Day
- The Little Engine That Could as Beverly (voice)
- Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1 as Self (archive footage)
2010
- You Again as Gail
- Halloween: The Inside Story as Self
- Video Games Live: Level 2 as Self
2009
- Archer as Peregrine Bruchstein (voice)
- Dirt! The Movie as Self
- Dreams Come True: A Celebration of Disney Animation
2008
- The Bonnie Hunt Show as Self
- Beverly Hills Chihuahua as Aunt Viv
- Not Quite Hollywood as Self
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
2006
- El hormiguero as Self - Guest
- The Megan Mullally Show as Self - Guest
- Halloween: 25 Years of Terror as Self
2005
- The Reichen Show as Self - Guest
- The Kid & I as Jamie Lee Curtis
2004
- Christmas with the Kranks as Nora Krank
- John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies as Self
2003
- NCIS as Samantha Ryan
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- Freaky Friday as Tess Coleman
- Mike's Super Short Show
- Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest as Self / Laurie Strode
2002
- Halloween: Resurrection as Laurie Strode
- Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song as Narrator (voice)
- Halloween: Resurrected
2001
- The Tailor of Panama as Louisa Pendel
- Revealed with Jules Asner
- Daddy and Them as Elaine Bowen
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys as Queen Camilla (voice)
2000
- Pigs Next Door as Clara (voice)
- Drowning Mona as Rona Mace
- The American Nightmare as Self
1999
- Virus as Kelly Foster
- The Early Show as Self
- Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special as Self (uncredited)
- Halloween: Unmasked as Self
1998
- Halloween H20: 20 Years Later as Laurie Strode / Keri Tate
- Homegrown as Sierra Kahan
- Nicholas’ Gift as Maggie Green
- Unmasking the Horror
1997
- The View as Self
- Leute heute as Self
- Fierce Creatures as Willa Weston
- The Haunted History of Halloween as Self
1996
- Escape from L.A. as Female Narrator (uncredited)
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- House Arrest as Janet Beindorf
- E! True Hollywood Story
- The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful as Self
- Ellen's Energy Adventure as Dr. Judy Peterson (uncredited)
1995
- The Drew Carey Show as Sioux
- The Frank Skinner Show as Self
- The Heidi Chronicles as Heidi Holland
1994
- True Lies as Helen
- My Girl 2 as Shelly Sultenfuss
- Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! as Self (archive footage)
- Cindy Sherman: Nobody's Here But Me as Narrator (voice)
1993
- Intimate Portrait as Self
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- Mother's Boys as Judith 'Jude' Madigan
1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self
- Forever Young as Claire Cooper
- A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out as Jamie Lee Curtis
1991
- My Girl as Shelly DeVoto
- Queens Logic as Grace
1990
- Blue Steel as Officer Megan Turner
- Help Save Planet Earth as Self
1989
- Anything But Love as Hannah Miller
1988
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- A Fish Called Wanda as Wanda Gershwitz
- Dominick and Eugene as Jennifer Reston
- John Cleese's First Farewell Performance as Self
1987
- A Man in Love as Susan Elliott
- Amazing Grace and Chuck as Lynn Taylor
1986
- As Summers Die as Whitsey Loftin
1985
- Tall Tales & Legends as Annie Oakley
- Perfect as Jessie Wilson
- Annie Oakley as Annie Oakley
1984
- Jeopardy! as Self - Clue Presenter
- Grandview, U.S.A. as Michelle 'Mike' Cody
1983
- Trading Places as Ophelia
- Love Letters as Anna Winter
1982
- Wogan as Self
- Halloween III: Season of the Witch as Curfew Announcer / Telephone Operator (voice) (uncredited)
- Money on the Side as Michelle Jamison
- Callahan as Rachel Bartlett
- Coming Soon as Herself
1981
- Escape from New York as Narrator / Prison Recording Voice (uncredited)
- Halloween II as Laurie Strode
- Roadgames as Pamela 'Hitch' Rushworth
- Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story as Dorothy Stratten
- She's in the Army Now as Pvt. Rita Jennings
1980
- The Fog as Elizabeth Solley
- Fridays as Self
- Prom Night as Kimberly Hammond
- Terror Train as Alana
- Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog' as Self
1979
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as Jen Burton
1978
- Halloween as Laurie
1977
- The Love Boat as Linda
- The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
- Operation Petticoat as Lt. Barbara Duran
- Murder at the World Series ... (Dialogue Coach)
1976
- Charlie's Angels as Linda Frye
- Quincy, M.E. as Girl in Dressing Room
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1971
- Columbo as Waitress
1968
- 60 Minutes as Self
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1952
- Today as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter