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

• 2028Murder, She Wrote — Jessica Fletcher
• Newlyweds — Claudia, Producer
• Scarpetta — Dorothy, Executive Producer
• 2026Sender — Lisa Barr, Producer
• 2026The Only Living Pickpocket in New York — Moira
• 2025Ella McCay — Helen
• 2025Freakier Friday — Tess Coleman, Producer
• 2025I Was Born This Way — Executive Producer
• 2025Star Trek: Section 31 — Control
• 2025Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter — Executive Producer
• 2025The Lost Bus — Producer
• 2024Borderlands — Tannis
• 2024Burn Out — Executive Producer
• 2024The Last Showgirl — Annette
• The Sticky — Bo, Executive Producer
• 2023Haunted Mansion — Madame Leota
• 2022Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once — Self, Thanks
• 2022Everything Everywhere All at Once — Deirdre Beaubeirdre
• 2022Halloween Ends — Laurie, Executive Producer
• Reno 911! Defunded — Lieutenant Donna Fritzgibbons
• 2022Return to Sender — Producer
• The Bear — Donna Berzatto
• 20212 Timers — Executive Producer
• 2021Halloween Kills — Laurie Strode, Executive Producer
• 2021Senior Entourage — Jamie
• 2020Best Summer Ever — Executive Producer
• 2020In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover — Jamie Lee Curtis
• 2019An Acceptable Loss — Rachel Burke
• 2019Knives Out — Linda Drysdale
• The Masked Singer — Special Message (video)
• 2018Halloween — Laurie Strode, Executive Producer
• 2018Hondros — Co-Executive Producer
• Scream Queens — Dean Cathy Munsch, Director
• 2015Spare Parts — Principal
• 2014Veronica Mars — Gayle Buckley
• 20128 — Sandy Stier
• New Girl — Joan Day
• 2011The Little Engine That Could — Beverly (voice)
• 2010You Again — Gail
• Archer — Peregrine Bruchstein (voice)
• 2008Beverly Hills Chihuahua — Aunt Viv
• 2005The Kid & I — Jamie Lee Curtis
• 2004Christmas with the Kranks — Nora Krank
• 2003Freaky Friday — Tess Coleman
• Mike's Super Short Show
• NCIS — Samantha Ryan
• 2002Halloween: Resurrection — Laurie Strode
• 2001Daddy and Them — Elaine Bowen
• Revealed with Jules Asner
• 2001Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys — Queen Camilla (voice)
• 2001The Tailor of Panama — Louisa Pendel
• 2000Drowning Mona — Rona Mace
• Pigs Next Door — Clara (voice)
• 1999Virus — Kelly Foster
• 1998Halloween H20: 20 Years Later — Laurie Strode / Keri Tate
• 1998Homegrown — Sierra Kahan
• 1998Nicholas’ Gift — Maggie Green
• 1997Fierce Creatures — Willa Weston
• E! True Hollywood Story
• 1996Escape from L.A. — Female Narrator (uncredited)
• 1996House Arrest — Janet Beindorf
• The Drew Carey Show — Sioux
• 1995The Heidi Chronicles — Heidi Holland
• 1994My Girl 2 — Shelly Sultenfuss
• 1994True Lies — Helen
• 1993Mother's Boys — Judith 'Jude' Madigan
• 1992Forever Young — Claire Cooper
• 1991My Girl — Shelly DeVoto
• 1991Queens Logic — Grace
• 1990Blue Steel — Officer Megan Turner
• Anything But Love — Hannah Miller, Director
• 1988A Fish Called Wanda — Wanda Gershwitz
• 1988Dominick and Eugene — Jennifer Reston
• 1987A Man in Love — Susan Elliott
• 1987Amazing Grace and Chuck — Lynn Taylor
• 1986Annie Oakley — Annie Oakley
• 1986As Summers Die — Whitsey Loftin
• 1985Perfect — Jessie Wilson
• Tall Tales & Legends — Annie Oakley
• 1984Grandview, U.S.A. — Michelle 'Mike' Cody
• 1983Love Letters — Anna Winter
• 1983Trading Places — Ophelia
• 1982Halloween III: Season of the Witch — Curfew Announcer / Telephone Operator (voice) (uncredited)
• 1982Money on the Side — Michelle Jamison
• 1981Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story — Dorothy Stratten
• 1981Escape from New York — Narrator / Prison Recording Voice (uncredited)
• 1981Halloween II — Laurie Strode
• 1981Roadgames — Pamela 'Hitch' Rushworth
• 1981She's in the Army Now — Pvt. Rita Jennings
• 1980Prom Night — Kimberly Hammond
• 1980Terror Train — Alana
• 1980The Fog — Elizabeth Solley
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century — Jen Burton
• 1978Halloween — Laurie
• 1977Murder at the World Series — Dialogue Coach
• Operation Petticoat — Lt. Barbara Duran
• The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
• The Love Boat — Linda
• Charlie's Angels — Linda Frye
• Quincy, M.E. — Girl in Dressing Room
• Columbo — Waitress
• Activia Kiss It Better Edit
• Life in paris — Motion Actor
• Spychosis — Jamie
• The Debra Hill Story — Self, Executive Producer
• The Honey Wars — (voice)
• Trüebadour — Executive Producer

Appearances as themselves (60)

• 2025The Happiest Story on Earth: 70 Years of Disneyland — Self
• Variety & CNN Actors on Actors — Self
• Disney Legends Award Ceremony — Self - Honoree
• Arnold — Self
• 2022Halloween in Hollywood — Self
• 2022Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom — Self - Actress (archive footage)
• Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• The Movies That Made Us — Self (Archival Footage)
• Today with Jenna & Sheinelle — Self
• Eli Roth's History of Horror — Self
• 201778/52 — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self - Guest
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self, Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• 2013Blood Is Thicker Than Water: The Making of Halloween H20 — Self
• Have You Been Paying Attention? — Self - Video Quizmaster
• 2013The Night She Came Home!! — Self
• 2012Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom — Self
• 2011Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1 — Self (archive footage)
• 2010Halloween: The Inside Story — Self
• The Talk — Self
• 2009Dirt! The Movie — Self
• 2008Not Quite Hollywood — Self
• The Bonnie Hunt Show — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• El hormiguero — Self - Guest
• 2006Halloween: 25 Years of Terror — Self
• The Megan Mullally Show — Self - Guest
• The Reichen Show — Self - Guest
• 2004John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies — Self
• 2003Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest — Self / Laurie Strode
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self, Self - Guest
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• 2002Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog' — Self (archive)
• 2000The American Nightmare — Self
• 1999Halloween: Unmasked — Self
• The Early Show — Self
• Leute heute — Self
• 1997The Haunted History of Halloween — Self
• The View — Self, Self - Guest
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self - Guest
• The Frank Skinner Show — Self
• Intimate Portrait — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — Self
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• Jeopardy! — Self - Clue Presenter
• 1982Coming Soon — Self - Host
• Wogan — Self
• Fridays — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
• Film '72 — Self
• 60 Minutes — Self
• The Oscars — Self, Self - Presenter
• Today — Self
• The Emmy Awards — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee, Self - Nominee / Presenter
• Jodi Lyn O'Keefe: A Life on Screen — Self (archive footage)