Jamie Lee Curtis
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.
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Movies (104)
Murder, She Wrote
2028 · Jessica Fletcher
Sender
2027 · Lisa Barr, Producer
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
2026 · Moira, The Boss
Ella McCay: Imperfectamente perfecta
2025 · Helen
Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter
2025 · Executive Producer
The Happiest Story on Earth: 70 Years of Disneyland
2025 · Self
A través del fuego
2025 · Producer
Otro viernes de locos
2025 · Tess Coleman, Producer
I Was Born This Way
2025 · Executive Producer
Star Trek: Sección 31
2025 · Control
La Última Gran Actuación
2024 · Annette
Burn Out
2024 · Executive Producer
Borderlands
2024 · Tannis
Mansión embrujada
2023 · Madame Leota
Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom
2022 · Self - Actress (archive footage)
Halloween: La noche final
2022 · Laurie, Executive Producer
Halloween in Hollywood
2022 · Self
Return to Sender
2022 · Producer
Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022 · Self, Thanks
Todo en todas partes al mismo tiempo
2022 · Deirdre Beaubeirdre
Halloween Kills: La noche aún no termina
2021 · Laurie Strode, Executive Producer
2 Timers
2021 · Executive Producer
Senior Entourage
2021 · Jamie
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020 · Jamie Lee Curtis
Best Summer Ever
2020 · Executive Producer
Entre Navajas y Secretos
2019 · Linda Drysdale
Una pérdida aceptable
2019 · Rachel Burke
Halloween
2018 · Laurie Strode, Executive Producer
Hondros
2018 · Co-Executive Producer
78/52
2017 · Self
Spare Parts
2015 · Principal
Veronica Mars
2014 · Gayle Buckley
The Night She Came Home!!
2013 · Self
Blood Is Thicker Than Water: The Making of Halloween H20
2013 · Self
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
2012 · Self
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2012 · Sandy Stier
Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1
2011 · Self (archive footage)
The Little Engine That Could
2011 · Beverly (voice)
Halloween: The Inside Story
2010 · Self
Otra vez tu
2010 · Gail
Dirt! The Movie
2009 · Self
Una chihuahua de Beverly Hills
2008 · Aunt Viv
Not Quite Hollywood
2008 · Self
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
2006 · Self
The Kid & I
2005 · Jamie Lee Curtis
Una Navidad De Locos
2004 · Nora Krank
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
2004 · Self
Un viernes de locos
2003 · Tess Coleman
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
2003 · Self / Laurie Strode
Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'
2002 · Self (archive)
Halloween: Resurrección
2002 · Laurie Strode
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001 · Queen Camilla (voice)
Daddy and Them
2001 · Elaine Bowen
El sastre de Panamá
2001 · Louisa Pendel
The American Nightmare
2000 · Self
Drowning Mona
2000 · Rona Mace
Halloween: Unmasked
1999 · Self
Virus
1999 · Kelly Foster
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998 · Laurie Strode / Keri Tate
Unmasking the Horror
1998 · Self
Nicholas’ Gift
1998 · Maggie Green
Homegrown
1998 · Sierra Kahan
The Haunted History of Halloween
1997 · Self
Fierce Creatures
1997 · Willa Weston
House Arrest
1996 · Janet Beindorf
Escape from L.A.
1996 · Female Narrator (uncredited)
The Heidi Chronicles
1995 · Heidi Holland
True Lies
1994 · Helen
My Girl 2
1994 · Shelly Sultenfuss
Mother's Boys
1993 · Judith 'Jude' Madigan
Forever Young
1992 · Claire Cooper
My Girl
1991 · Shelly DeVoto
Queens Logic
1991 · Grace
Blue Steel
1990 · Officer Megan Turner
A Fish Called Wanda
1988 · Wanda Gershwitz
Dominick and Eugene
1988 · Jennifer Reston
Amazing Grace and Chuck
1987 · Lynn Taylor
A Man in Love
1987 · Susan Elliott
Annie Oakley
1986 · Annie Oakley
As Summers Die
1986 · Whitsey Loftin
Perfect
1985 · Jessie Wilson
Grandview, U.S.A.
1984 · Michelle 'Mike' Cody
Trading Places
1983 · Ophelia
Love Letters
1983 · Anna Winter
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
1982 · Curfew Announcer / Telephone Operator (voice) (uncredited)
Money on the Side
1982 · Michelle Jamison
Callahan
1982 · Rachel Bartlett
Coming Soon
1982 · Self - Host
Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story
1981 · Dorothy Stratten
Halloween II
1981 · Laurie Strode
Escape from New York
1981 · Narrator / Prison Recording Voice (uncredited)
She's in the Army Now
1981 · Pvt. Rita Jennings
Roadgames
1981 · Pamela 'Hitch' Rushworth
Terror Train
1980 · Alana
Prom Night
1980 · Kimberly Hammond
The Fog
1980 · Elizabeth Solley
Halloween
1978 · Laurie
Murder at the World Series
1977 · Dialogue Coach
Spychosis
· Jamie
The Debra Hill Story
· Self, Executive Producer
Activia Kiss It Better Edit
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe: A Life on Screen
· Self (archive footage)
Untitled Halloween Film
· Laurie Strode
Trüebadour
· Executive Producer
TV shows (64)
Newlyweds
2026 · Claudia, Executive Producer, Story, Creator
Scarpetta
2026 · Dorothy, Executive Producer
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025 · Self
Dulce Estafa
2024 · Bo, Executive Producer
Disney Legends Award Ceremony
2024 · Self - Honoree
Arnold
2023 · Self
El Oso
2022 · Donna Berzatto
Reno 911! Defunded
2022 · Lieutenant Donna Fritzgibbons
Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts
2021 · Self
Las películas que nos formaron
2019 · Self (Archival Footage)
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Self
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019 · Self
The Masked Singer
2019 · Self
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018 · Self
Scream Queens
2015 · Dean Cathy Munsch, Director
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Guest
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015 · Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self - Guest
Have You Been Paying Attention?
2013 · Self - Video Quizmaster
New Girl
2011 · Joan Day
The Talk
2010 · Self
Archer
2009 · Peregrine Bruchstein (voice)
The Bonnie Hunt Show
2008 · Self
El show de Graham Norton
2007 · Self
El hormiguero
2006 · Self - Guest
The Megan Mullally Show
2006 · Self - Guest
The Reichen Show
2005 · Self - Guest
NCIS
2003 · Samantha Ryan
Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Self
Mike's Super Short Show
2003 · Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self, Self - Guest
Revealed with Jules Asner
2001
Pigs Next Door
2000 · Clara (voice)
The Early Show
1999 · Self
The View
1997 · Self, Self - Guest
Leute heute
1997 · Self
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · Self - Guest
The Drew Carey Show
1995 · Sioux
The Frank Skinner Show
1995 · Self
Intimate Portrait
1993 · Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Self
Anything but Love
1989 · Hannah Miller, Director
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Self - Guest
Tall Tales & Legends
1985 · Annie Oakley
Jeopardy!
1984 · Self - Clue Presenter
Wogan
1982 · Self
Fridays
1980 · Self
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979 · Jen Burton
The Love Boat
1977 · Linda
Operation Petticoat
1977 · Lt. Barbara Duran
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
Quincy, M.E.
1976 · Girl in Dressing Room
Charlie's Angels
1976 · Linda Frye
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Host
Film '72
1971 · Self
Columbo
1971 · Waitress
60 Minutes
1968 · Self
The Oscars
1953 · Self, Self - Presenter
Today
1952 · Self
The Emmy Awards
1949 · Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee, Self - Nominee / Presenter