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 Jamie Lee Curtis was born on November 22, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of legendary actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. She got her big break at acting in 1978 when she won the role of Laurie Strode in Halloween (1978). After that, she became famous for roles in movies like Trading Places (1983), Perfect (1985) and A Fish Called Wanda (1988). She starred in one of the biggest action films ever, True Lies (1994), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for her performance. Curtis also appeared on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979), and starred in Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981) as the title role. Her first starring role was opposite Richard Lewis on the ABC situation comedy Anything But Love (1989). In 1998, she starred in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) in which she reprised her role that made her famous back in 1978.Jamie Lee served as an honorary chairperson for the Building Resilience for Young Children Dealing with Trauma program held at the Shakespeare Theatre - Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C. She was an inspiration for the youth that were celebrated. Curtis was also given an award from US Department of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman for her work on behalf of children through her charities and children's books.
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Jamie Lee Curtis was born on November 22, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of legendary actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. She got her big break at acting in 1978 when she won the role of Laurie Strode in Halloween (1978). After that, she became famous for roles in movies like Trading Places (1983), Perfect (1985) and A Fish Called Wanda (1988). She starred in one of the biggest action films ever, True Lies (1994), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for her performance. Curtis also appeared on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979), and starred in Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981) as the title role. Her first starring role was opposite Richard Lewis on the ABC situation comedy Anything But Love (1989). In 1998, she starred in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) in which she reprised her role that made her famous back in 1978.Jamie Lee served as an honorary chairperson for the Building Resilience for Young Children Dealing with Trauma program held at the Shakespeare Theatre - Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C. She was an inspiration for the youth that were celebrated. Curtis was also given an award from US Department of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman for her work on behalf of children through her charities and children's books.
Tivia:
Godmother of Jake Gyllenhaal and Maggie Gyllenhaal.Became formally known as Lady Haden-Guest of Saling in the County of Essex, when her husband, Christopher, inherited the barony in 1996 on the death of his father.It was on her suggestion that Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) was made.Daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet LeighSaid in an interview on Good Entertainment, with Michael Medved (2001) that, ironically, horror films terrify her and she prefers not to watch them.Adopted two children with Christopher Guest: daughter Annie Guest (b. December 1986) and daughter Ruby Guest (b. March 1996).Holds US patent Patent #4,753,647. "A disposable infant garment which takes the form of a diaper including, on its outer side, a sealed, but openable, moisture-proof pocket which contains one or more clean-up wipers."Once said that Dan Aykroyd was the best on-screen kisser she ever worked with.When making reservations in exclusive London restaurants at short notice, she gives her name as Lady Haden-Guest, which apparently works better than Jamie Lee Curtis.Has her legs insured for $2 million.John Cleese found it amusing that her father, Tony Curtis's real name was Bernard Schwartz. To tease her about this, during the production of A Fish Called Wanda (1988), he had the call sheets refer to her as "Jamie Lee Schwartz.".Curtis, along with her daughter, is an avid fan of the Warcraft series of video games, especially "World of Warcraft." She and her daughter often participate in gaming conventions, as well as performing cosplay (dressing in full costume as a character from the series, complete with makeup/prosthetics and props), including a memorable turnout as green-skinned orcs at the US premiere of the "Warcraft" movie.Survived a secret Vicodin addiction (1989-1999) that almost destroyed her life, during which time even husband Christopher Guest was totally oblivious to her plight. Not until she attended her first recovery meeting in 1999 did she reveal, for the first time, the details of her addiction to her husband and family. Jamie became addicted after being prescribed opiates after minor plastic surgery for her "puffy eyes".Was asked to cameo in the sequel Scream 3 (2000), but declined.When she went to pick up her Tesla car with husband Christopher Guest, the technician instructed them to check out the air conditioning and audio controls, each of which maxed out at "11." Apparently Tesla CEO Elon Musk was a huge fan of the film This Is Spinal Tap (1984) and had the controls exclusively customized for the couple.Around the time True Lies (1994) was released, Jamie appeared in a series of commercials for L'Eggs Pantyhose. The company also took out an insurance policy for her legs.Won a 2003 Grammy nomination in the Best Spoken Album for Children category for her recording of the children's books she has written.She has played the same character (Laurie Strode) in films released in six different decades from the 1970s to the 2020s: Halloween (1978), Halloween II (1981), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), Halloween: Resurrection (2002), Halloween (2018) and Halloween Ends (2022).Saw her future husband Christopher Guest in the issue of Rolling Stone magazine with Cyndi Lauper on the cover. Guest appeared in a promotional photo for the film This Is Spinal Tap (1984) in full costume and makeup as a rock star. She fell in love at first sight of the photo and gave her telephone number to his agent.She told a German magazine that she will retire from making movies and that Christmas with the Kranks (2004) will be her last work as an actress. (November 2004) She was wrong.For most of her life, she did not have a very good relationship with her father Tony Curtis. Despite their differences, she attended her father's funeral, on October 4, 2010, in Henderson, Nevada, and spoke at her father's funeral.Was named by McCall's magazine as one of the "10 Best Bodies in America" in 1985.Was introduced to her future husband, Christopher Guest, by Halloween II (1981) co-star Leo Rossi through a mutual celebrity softball league.Was childhood friends with Eric Douglas. He once tried to kiss her while both were sitting in a tree. Curtis then pushed Eric out of the tree; he fell to the ground, which resulted in a hernia that had to be operated on.During the 1980s, she was engaged to Hollywood production designer J. Michael Riva, the grandson of screen legend Marlene Dietrich. Her godfather was MCA-Universal CEO Lew Wasserman.Travels under the nom-de-plume "Rhoda Penmark," named after Patty McCormack's character in The Bad Seed (1956).Younger sister of actress Kelly Curtis. Older half-sister of Allegra Curtis, Alexandra Curtis and Nicholas Curtis.Two of her earliest roles make reference to roles played by her father. She appeared on the television series Operation Petticoat (1977), based on the movie that had starred her father, Tony Curtis. While on hiatus from that show, she was cast in Halloween (1978), in which the detective "Sam Loomis" was named after a character from Psycho (1960), which had starred her mother, Janet Leigh. Also, her father imitated Cary Grant's voice for his role in Some Like It Hot (1959), and worked with Grant himself in Operation Petticoat (1959). Grant's birth name, Archie Leach, was used as the name for John Cleese's character in A Fish Called Wanda (1988).She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6600 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on September 3, 1998.In the Married... with Children (1987) episode The Poker Game (1987), Al Bundy votes her as having the perfect legs and breasts.Appeared in two feature films with mother Janet Leigh - The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998).Graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall private school in 1976.Friends with Sigourney Weaver, and Tyra Banks.Attended the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.Was one of the guests at Sandra Bullock's and Jesse James' wedding.Her deleted scene from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) is included on the MGM Special Edition DVD, 2001, as the "Alternate Opening".Her paternal grandparents, Emanuel Schwartz and Helen (Klein), were Hungarian Jewish immigrants. Her maternal grandfather, Frederick/Fred Robert Morrison, had English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, German, Swiss-German, and French ancestry, and her maternal grandmother, Helen Lita (Westergaard), was from a family of Danish immigrants.Lives in Santa Monica, California and Ketchum, Idaho.Jamie is the only member of her family to have won an acting Oscar. Her parents Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh were respectively nominated just once for The Defiant Ones (1958) and Psycho (1960), but failed to take home the statuette.She and Gigi Garner have known each other since they were both 2-years-old and both were cheerleaders in high school.Following a December 2022 feature in New York magazine, "The Year of the Nepo Baby", Curtis referred to herself as an "OG nepo baby" and said, "The current conversation about nepo babies is just designed to try to diminish and denigrate and hurt.".Was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1992.Does not like acting in front of a green screen, which is why she has said she will never be in a superhero film.Sister-in-law of Nicholas Guest and Pamela Guest.She has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Halloween (1978).Aunt of Elizabeth Guest and Julia Guest.Is one of 23 actresses who did not receive an Oscar nomination for their Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe-winning performance; hers being for True Lies (1994). The others, in chronological order, are: June Allyson for Too Young to Kiss (1951), Ethel Merman for Call Me Madam (1953), Jean Simmons for Guys and Dolls (1955), Taina Elg and Kay Kendall for Les Girls (1957), Marilyn Monroe for Some Like It Hot (1959), Rosalind Russell for A Majority of One (1961) and Gypsy (1962), Patty Duke for Me, Natalie (1969), Twiggy for The Boy Friend (1971), Raquel Welch for The Three Musketeers (1973), Barbra Streisand for A Star Is Born (1976), Bernadette Peters for Pennies from Heaven (1981), Kathleen Turner for Romancing the Stone (1984) and Prizzi's Honor (1985), Miranda Richardson for Enchanted April (1991), Nicole Kidman for To Die For (1995), Madonna for Evita (1996), Ren��e Zellweger for Nurse Betty (2000), Sally Hawkins for Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), Amy Adams for Big Eyes (2014), Awkwafina for The Farewell (2019), Rosamund Pike for I Care a Lot (2020) and Rachel Zegler for West Side Story (2021).For her win in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), becomes the eighth so-called "nepo baby" (the offspring of a famous parent in the business) to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Those before her are Tatum O'Neal, Vanessa Redgrave, Anjelica Huston, Mira Sorvino, Angelina Jolie, (arguably) Patricia Arquette, and Laura Dern.Despite being in iconic horror movie roles, does not like watching scary movies because she doesn't like being frightened.Interviewed in 2016 by Tavis Smiley on his TV show, Tavis Smiley (2004), following the success on her authorship of the children's book, "This is Me". |
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Jamie Lee Curtis |
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Actress,Producer,Director (IMDB) |
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All World |
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Actress,Producer,Director |
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| Height: |
5' 7' (1.70 m) |
| Biography: |
Jamie Lee Curtis was born on November 22, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of legendary actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. She got her big break at acting in 1978 when she won the role of Laurie Strode in Halloween (1978). After that, s |
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Godmother of Jake Gyllenhaal and Maggie Gyllenhaal.Became formally known as Lady Haden-Guest of Saling in the County of Essex, when her husband, Christopher, inherited the barony in 1996 on the death of his father.It was on her suggestion that Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) was made.Daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet LeighSaid in an interview on Good Entertainment, with Michael Medved (2001) that, ironically, horror films terrify her and she prefers not to watch them.Adopted two children with Christopher Guest: daughter Annie Guest (b. December 1986) and daughter Ruby Guest (b. March 1996).Holds US patent Patent #4,753,647. "A disposable infant garment which takes the form of a diaper including, on its outer side, a sealed, but openable, moisture-proof pocket which contains one or more clean-up wipers."Once said that Dan Aykroyd was the best on-screen kisser she ever worked with.When making reservations in exclusive London restaurants at short notice, she gives her name as Lady Haden-Guest, which apparently works better than Jamie Lee Curtis.Has her legs insured for $2 million.John Cleese found it amusing that her father, Tony Curtis's real name was Bernard Schwartz. To tease her about this, during the production of A Fish Called Wanda (1988), he had the call sheets refer to her as "Jamie Lee Schwartz.".Curtis, along with her daughter, is an avid fan of the Warcraft series of video games, especially "World of Warcraft." She and her daughter often participate in gaming conventions, as well as performing cosplay (dressing in full costume as a character from the series, complete with makeup/prosthetics and props), including a memorable turnout as green-skinned orcs at the US premiere of the "Warcraft" movie.Survived a secret Vicodin addiction (1989-1999) that almost destroyed her life, during which time even husband Christopher Guest was totally oblivious to her plight. Not until she attended her first recovery meeting in 1999 did she reveal, for the first time, the details of her addiction to her husband and family. Jamie became addicted after being prescribed opiates after minor plastic surgery for her "puffy eyes".Was asked to cameo in the sequel Scream 3 (2000), but declined.When she went to pick up her Tesla car with husband Christopher Guest, the technician instructed them to check out the air conditioning and audio controls, each of which maxed out at "11." Apparently Tesla CEO Elon Musk was a huge fan of the film This Is Spinal Tap (1984) and had the controls exclusively customized for the couple.Around the time True Lies (1994) was released, Jamie appeared in a series of commercials for L'Eggs Pantyhose. The company also took out an insurance policy for her legs.Won a 2003 Grammy nomination in the Best Spoken Album for Children category for her recording of the children's books she has written.She has played the same character (Laurie Strode) in films released in six different decades from the 1970s to the 2020s: Halloween (1978), Halloween II (1981), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), Halloween: Resurrection (2002), Halloween (2018) and Halloween Ends (2022).Saw her future husband Christopher Guest in the issue of Rolling Stone magazine with Cyndi Lauper on the cover. Guest appeared in a promotional photo for the film This Is Spinal Tap (1984) in full costume and makeup as a rock star. She fell in love at first sight of the photo and gave her telephone number to his agent.She told a German magazine that she will retire from making movies and that Christmas with the Kranks (2004) will be her last work as an actress. (November 2004) She was wrong.For most of her life, she did not have a very good relationship with her father Tony Curtis. Despite their differences, she attended her father's funeral, on October 4, 2010, in Henderson, Nevada, and spoke at her father's funeral.Was named by McCall's magazine as one of the "10 Best Bodies in America" in 1985.Was introduced to her future husband, Christopher Guest, by Halloween II (1981) co-star Leo Rossi through a mutual celebrity softball league.Was childhood friends with Eric Douglas. He once tried to kiss her while both were sitting in a tree. Curtis then pushed Eric out of the tree; he fell to the ground, which resulted in a hernia that had to be operated on.During the 1980s, she was engaged to Hollywood production designer J. Michael Riva, the grandson of screen legend Marlene Dietrich. Her godfather was MCA-Universal CEO Lew Wasserman.Travels under the nom-de-plume "Rhoda Penmark," named after Patty McCormack's character in The Bad Seed (1956).Younger sister of actress Kelly Curtis. Older half-sister of Allegra Curtis, Alexandra Curtis and Nicholas Curtis.Two of her earliest roles make reference to roles played by her father. She appeared on the television series Operation Petticoat (1977), based on the movie that had starred her father, Tony Curtis. While on hiatus from that show, she was cast in Halloween (1978), in which the detective "Sam Loomis" was named after a character from Psycho (1960), which had starred her mother, Janet Leigh. Also, her father imitated Cary Grant's voice for his role in Some Like It Hot (1959), and worked with Grant himself in Operation Petticoat (1959). Grant's birth name, Archie Leach, was used as the name for John Cleese's character in A Fish Called Wanda (1988).She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6600 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on September 3, 1998.In the Married... with Children (1987) episode The Poker Game (1987), Al Bundy votes her as having the perfect legs and breasts.Appeared in two feature films with mother Janet Leigh - The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998).Graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall private school in 1976.Friends with Sigourney Weaver, and Tyra Banks.Attended the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.Was one of the guests at Sandra Bullock's and Jesse James' wedding.Her deleted scene from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) is included on the MGM Special Edition DVD, 2001, as the "Alternate Opening".Her paternal grandparents, Emanuel Schwartz and Helen (Klein), were Hungarian Jewish immigrants. Her maternal grandfather, Frederick/Fred Robert Morrison, had English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, German, Swiss-German, and French ancestry, and her maternal grandmother, Helen Lita (Westergaard), was from a family of Danish immigrants.Lives in Santa Monica, California and Ketchum, Idaho.Jamie is the only member of her family to have won an acting Oscar. Her parents Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh were respectively nominated just once for The Defiant Ones (1958) and Psycho (1960), but failed to take home the statuette.She and Gigi Garner have known each other since they were both 2-years-old and both were cheerleaders in high school.Following a December 2022 feature in New York magazine, "The Year of the Nepo Baby", Curtis referred to herself as an "OG nepo baby" and said, "The current conversation about nepo babies is just designed to try to diminish and denigrate and hurt.".Was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1992.Does not like acting in front of a green screen, which is why she has said she will never be in a superhero film.Sister-in-law of Nicholas Guest and Pamela Guest.She has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Halloween (1978).Aunt of Elizabeth Guest and Julia Guest.Is one of 23 actresses who did not receive an Oscar nomination for their Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe-winning performance; hers being for True Lies (1994). The others, in chronological order, are: June Allyson for Too Young to Kiss (1951), Ethel Merman for Call Me Madam (1953), Jean Simmons for Guys and Dolls (1955), Taina Elg and Kay Kendall for Les Girls (1957), Marilyn Monroe for Some Like It Hot (1959), Rosalind Russell for A Majority of One (1961) and Gypsy (1962), Patty Duke for Me, Natalie (1969), Twiggy for The Boy Friend (1971), Raquel Welch for The Three Musketeers (1973), Barbra Streisand for A Star Is Born (1976), Bernadette Peters for Pennies from Heaven (1981), Kathleen Turner for Romancing the Stone (1984) and Prizzi's Honor (1985), Miranda Richardson for Enchanted April (1991), Nicole Kidman for To Die For (1995), Madonna for Evita (1996), Ren��e Zellweger for Nurse Betty (2000), Sally Hawkins for Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), Amy Adams for Big Eyes (2014), Awkwafina for The Farewell (2019), Rosamund Pike for I Care a Lot (2020) and Rachel Zegler for West Side Story (2021).For her win in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), becomes the eighth so-called "nepo baby" (the offspring of a famous parent in the business) to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Those before her are Tatum O'Neal, Vanessa Redgrave, Anjelica Huston, Mira Sorvino, Angelina Jolie, (arguably) Patricia Arquette, and Laura Dern.Despite being in iconic horror movie roles, does not like watching scary movies because she doesn't like being frightened.Interviewed in 2016 by Tavis Smiley on his TV show, Tavis Smiley (2004), following the success on her authorship of the children's book, "This is Me". |
| Trademarks: |
Her sexy legs
Athletic figure
Deep sultry voice
Her short hair
Early in her career, "final girl" roles |
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"I believe people are entitled to a private life. I'm not sure where it's written that because you're in the public eye you are required to expose your private business, with anybody. It is nobody's business, and it's interesting because obviously in today's marketplace people don't abide by that. There are no boundaries that people won't cross... We're in a bit of a "Wild West" thing with media, and, I think, it's just kind of like no holds barred - the Internet. You know, there are no criteria on the Internet... I've chosen a public life to express myself, not to tell what I do with my husband in bed, not to do, to talk about my parents and my family life. And I just think it's wrong, and obviously it's an insatiable appetite that people have for gossip and innuendo and things that are nobody's business. And there's a term that they use in this called "legitimate public concern". What is legitimate public concern? If an elected official has an illness, that's legitimate public concern because they're our president or elected official. We, we, we need to know that they're healthy because we want them to live a long life and protect, you know, the Constitution... but in the marketplace, in the world, I don't believe it's anybody's concern. And that's what I think." --comments made on The View, September 19, 2000.
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I thought, while they're up and firm [her breasts], why not shoot them once or twice. - on screen nudity.
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I'm Laurie Strode's guardian angel.
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When I did Sesame Street (1969), Elmo was not the worldwide phenomenon he is now. I understood Elmo was special, and I said that the only way I would do Sesame Street was with Elmo. Kevin Clash, the young man who did the voice for him, was a very sweet guy and I predicted Elmo's meteoric rise to fame way in advance. I am a trendsetter without knowing it. Two years later the Elmo craze began, but I was ahead of the curve.
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When asked if she regretted making any films - Easy. There's a piece of shit called Virus (1999) which I made because another movie that I was supposed to do fell through. It was a bad choice and the movie is a piece of shit. The runner up is a movie called Grandview, U.S.A. (1984), which is this benign but still bad coming of age movie, which is just bad. I will never, ever see those films again. They are laughable, ludicrous movies and I'm bad in them. They're nasty. |
| Salaries: |
Halloween Ends (2022) - $3 .5,000,000
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Halloween: Resurrection (2002) - $3,000,000
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Love Letters (1984) - $25,000
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Halloween II (1981) - $100,000
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Halloween (1978) |
| Job title: |
Actress,Producer,Director |
| Others works: |
TV Commercial for Airtouch Cellular (1999)
(1993) Release of her book, "When I Was Little: A Four Year Old's Memoir of Her Youth".
TV commercial for Equal brand sweetner (1996)
TV commercial for Hitachi Televisions (1995)
Print advertis |
| Spouse: |
Christopher Guest (December 18, 1984 - present) (2 children) |
| Children: |
Annie GuestRuby Guest |
| Parents: |
Janet Leigh
Tony Curtis |
| Relatives: |
Kelly Curtis (Sibling)
Allegra Curtis (Half Sibling)
Alexandra Curtis (Half Sibling)
Nicholas Curtis (Half Sibling)
Elizabeth Guest (Niece or Nephew)
Julia Guest (Niece or Nep |
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