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Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress, producer, and children's author. Known for her performances in the horror and slasher genres, alongside 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 Globes, a…
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entertainment · American actress and author (born 1958) · actor · writer · children's writer · executive producer · film actor · photographer · comics writer · also Jamie Lee Curtis, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lady Haden-Guest, Curtis
Born 22 November 1958 · Q106997
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There are many, many actresses who love the dress up, who love clothes, who love fashion, who love being a model. I. Hate. It. I feel like I am having to wrestle with your idea of me versus my idea of me. Because I’ve worked hard to establish who I am, and I don’t want you to … I have struggled with it my whole life.
I felt tremendous maternal care for Lindsay after the first movie, and continued to feel that. When she’d come to LA, I would see her. She and I have remained friends, and now we’re sort of colleagues. I feel less maternal towards her because she’s a mommy now herself and doesn’t need my maternal care, and has, obviously, a mom – Dina’s a terrific grandma.
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“There are many, many actresses who love the dress up, who love clothes, who love fashion, who love being a model. I. Hate. It. I feel like I am having to wrestle with your idea of me versus my idea of me. Because I’ve worked hard to establish who I am, and I don’t want you to … I have struggled with it my whole life.”
“I felt tremendous maternal care for Lindsay after the first movie, and continued to feel that. When she’d come to LA, I would see her. She and I have remained friends, and now we’re sort of colleagues. I feel less maternal towards her because she’s a mommy now herself and doesn’t need my maternal care, and has, obviously, a mom – Dina’s a terrific grandma.”
“I love acting, I love the job we get to do, I love being a part of a crew, part of a cast, I love what we do with each other, it”
“But the truth of the matter is, I”
“I took down the post when I realized my error. The other post is a Guy Oseary repost. It”
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The Guardian: Jamie Lee Curtis announces death of actor sister Kelly aged 69: ‘My first friend and lifelong confidant’
Public attention spiked: 49,638 Wikipedia readers in one day, 10× the usual 4,954, with 3 article edits. Coverage that week: “Jamie Lee Curtis announces death of actor sister Kelly aged 69: ‘My first friend and lifelong confidant’” (The Guardian).
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The Guardian: Jamie Lee Curtis to lead Murder, She Wrote reboot movie
The Guardian: Nick Cave, Jamie Lee Curtis, Rami Malek, CMAT and more! The best Guardian portraits of 2025 – in pictures
The Guardian: Jamie Lee Curtis asked My Girl studio to put trigger warning on poster over Macaulay Culkin bee sting
The Guardian: Freakier Friday review – puppyishly uninhibited Jamie Lee Curtis saves body-swap sequel
The Guardian: ‘Generations of women have been disfigured’: Jamie Lee Curtis lets rip on plastic surgery, power, and Hollywood’s age problem
The Guardian: Jamie Lee Curtis reveals she had plastic surgery at 25 after comment on set: ‘It was not a good thing’
Starred in a campaign on this issue, wearing red plastic lips to caricature the kind of alteration that many women have opted for
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Full Fact rated the claim “In a video Jamie Lee Curtis told people to “get out the way and let Kamala win” in support of Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate.” This isn’t what the video is about. Ms Curtis was speaking in defence of Ariana DeBose’s performance at the BAFTAs, and was not connected to the US presidential election..
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And garnered her a fourth SAG Awards nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role and a fourth BAFTA Awards nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
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To negative reviews from critics and bombed at the box office
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Awarded Disney Legends (2024).
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Curtis was named a Disney Legend by The Walt Disney Company
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2023).
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Curtis guest starred in the second season of the Hulu comedy-drama series The Bear as alcoholic family matriarch Donna Berzatto, having hoped to become involved with the series after watching the first season
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Released album “Insidious Iconoclast”.
Curtis received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the 78th Venice International Film Festival and said, "I feel so alive, like I'm this 14-year-old person just beginning their life
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And Good Friend with Jamie Lee Curtis for iHeartRadio in 2021
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Curtis appeared as Linda Drysdale-Thrombrey, the eldest daughter of novelist Harlan Thrombey (played by Christopher Plummer) in Rian Johnson's mystery film Knives Out, which earned positive reviews and over $300 million
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Had a role in the drama film An Acceptable Loss
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Curtis was mentioned by Eminem in Big Sean's song No Favors
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IndieWire named her one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination (Curtis received her first Academy Award nomination in 2023)
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Which issued as US Patent 9,827,151 on November 28, 2017, and will expire on September 7, 2036
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Appeared in five episodes of the military drama series NCIS, playing the role of Dr
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Starred in the Christmas comedy film Christmas with the Kranks, which was critically derided but a box office success
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For Women in Recovery, a Venice, California-based non-profit organization offering a live-in, twelve-step program of rehabilitation for women in need
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Curtis was cast opposite Lindsay Lohan in the Disney comedy film Freaky Friday
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Curtis was guest of honor at the 11th annual gala and fundraiser in 2003 for Women in Recovery, a Venice, California-based non-profit organization offering a live-in, twelve-step program of rehabilitation for women in need.
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Snopes rated the claim “Actress Jamie Lee Curtis acknowledged in an interview that she was born with both male and female sex organs.” False.
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Voiced Queen Camilla in the animated Christmas film Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys
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Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (2000).
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Curtis was honored with the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year award and appeared in the crime comedy film Drowning Mona, starring Danny DeVito and Bette Midler
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After reading and relating to Tom Chiarella's account of addiction, and has called her own recovery the greatest achievement of her life
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Starred in the science fiction horror film Virus, which was a critical and commercial flop
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“People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.”
Starred in the CBS television film Nicholas' Gift, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and reprised her role of Laurie Strode for the third time in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
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Alongside her three A Fish Called Wanda costars: John Cleese, Kevin Kline, and Michael Palin
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Her husband Guest inherited the title Baron Haden-Guest when his father died
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Curtis starred in the family comedy film House Arrest and appeared in an episode of the sitcom The Drew Carey Show
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for True Lies (1994).
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Curtis starred alongside Mel Gibson in the romantic fantasy film Forever Young
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Curtis and her father, Tony, took a renewed interest in their family's Hungarian Jewish heritage, and helped finance the rebuilding of the "Great Synagogue" in Budapest, Hungary
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Curtis filed a US patent application that subsequently issued as Patent No
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Starred alongside Bette Davis in the HBO film As Summers Die
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Curtis was cast opposite John Travolta as a workout instructor in the film Perfect
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Trading Places (1984).
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Appeared alongside Stacey Keach in the Australian thriller film Roadgames, directed by Carpenter's friend Richard Franklin; her importation, which was requested by the film's American distributor AVCO Embassy Picture
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From Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut
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Studied law at her mother's alma mater—University of the Pacific in Stockton, California—but dropped out after one semester to pursue an acting career
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In Santa Monica, California, to actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
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Born 1958-11-22.
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