Jamie Lee Curtis

Actress | Producer | Director

Jamie Lee Curtis was born on November 22, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of ...

Born: November 22, 1958

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Filmography

Known For

Halloween Laurie Strode (2018)
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later Laurie Strode / Keri Tate (1998)
True Lies Helen (1994)
Known For

Freaky Friday Tess Coleman (2003)
Actress

Everything Everywhere All at Once Deirdre Beaubeirdre (2022)
Reno 911! Lieutenant Donna Fritzgibbons (2022)
Halloween Kills Laurie Strode (2021)
Senior Entourage Jamie (2021)
Archer Peregrine (2020)
Knives Out Linda Drysdale (2019)
An Acceptable Loss Rachel (2018)
Halloween Laurie Strode (2018)
New Girl Joan Day (2012-2018)
Scream Queens Dean Cathy Munsch (2015-2016)
Spare Parts Ms. Karen Lowry (2015)
Only Human Evelyn Lang (2014)
Veronica Mars Gayle Buckley (2014)
NCIS Dr. Samantha Ryan (2012)
8 Sandy Stier (2012)
From Up on Poppy Hill Ryoko Matsuzaki (2011)
The Little Engine That Could Bev (2011)
You Again Gail (2010)
Beverly Hills Chihuahua Aunt Viv (2008)
The Tuttles: Madcap Misadventures Barbara Tuttle (2007)
The Kid & I Jamie Lee Curtis (2005)
Molly & Roni's Dance Party Disc jockey (2005)
Christmas with the Kranks Nora Krank (2004)
Freaky Friday Tess Coleman (2003)
Halloween: Resurrection Laurie Strode (2002)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys Queen Camilla (2001)
Daddy and Them Elaine Bowen (2001)
The Tailor of Panama Louisa (2001)
Pigs Next Door Clara (2000)
Drowning Mona Rona (2000)
Virus Kit Foster (1999)
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later Laurie Strode / Keri Tate (1998)
Nicholas' Gift Maggie Green (1998)
Homegrown Sierra Kahan (1998)
Fierce Creatures Willa Weston (1997)
Ellen's Energy Adventure Dr. Judy Peterson (1996)
House Arrest Janet Beindorf (1996)
The Drew Carey Show Sioux (1996)
The Heidi Chronicles Heidi Holland (1995)
True Lies Helen (1994)
My Girl 2 Shelly Sultenfuss (1994)
Mother's Boys Judith 'Jude' Madigan (1993)
A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out Jamie Lee Curtis (1992)
Forever Young Claire Cooper (1992)
Anything But Love Hannah Miller (1989-1992)
My Girl Shelly DeVoto (1991)
Queens Logic Grace (1991)
Blue Steel Megan Turner (1990)
A Fish Called Wanda Wanda (1988)
Dominick and Eugene Jennifer Reston (1988)
A Man in Love Susan Elliott / Steve's wife (1987)
Amazing Grace and Chuck Lynn Taylor (1987)
Welcome Home (1986)
As Summers Die Whitsey Loftin (1986)
Jermaine Jackson: (The Closest Thing To) Perfect Jamie Lee Curtis (1985)
Tall Tales & Legends Annie Oakley (1985)
Perfect Jessie (1985)
Grandview, U.S.A. Michelle 'Mike' Cody (1984)
Trading Places Ophelia (1983)
Love Letters Anna (1983)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch Curfew Announcer / Telephone Operator (1982)
Money on the Side Michelle Jamison (1982)
Callahan Rachel Bartlett (1982)
Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story Dorothy Stratten (1981)
Halloween II Laurie Strode (1981)
She's in the Army Now Pvt. Rita Jennings (1981)
Escape from New York Narrator / Computer (1981)
Road Games Hitch (1981)
Terror Train Alana (1980)
Prom Night Kimberly Hammond (1980)
The Fog Elizabeth Solley (1980)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Jen Burton (1979)
The Love Boat Linda (1978)
Halloween Laurie (1978)
Charlie's Angels Linda Frye (1978)
Operation Petticoat Lt. Barbara Duran (1977-1978)
Columbo Waitress (1977)
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries Mary (1977)
Actress

Quincy M.E. Girl in Dressing Room (1977)
Producer

Return to Sender (2022)
2 Timers (2021)
Halloween Kills (2021)
Best Summer Ever (2020)
Letters from Camp (2020)
Halloween (2018)
Producer

Hondros (2017)
Director

Scream Queens (2016)
Director

Anything But Love (1992)
Soundtrack

Halloween (2018)
Soundtrack

Freaky Friday (2003)
Writer

Letters from Camp (2020)
Archive footage

The Comments Section with Brett Cooper (2022)
Dish Nation (2020-2022)
Entertainment Tonight (2009-2022)
Dan Bell the Podcast (2021)
Movie Night Extravaganza (2021)
The Movies That Made Us (2021)
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (2021)
Filmmaker Focus: Director John Landis on 'Trading Places' (2021)
Extra (2015-2020)
Celebrity Page (2017-2019)
The Talk (2019)
D'Astrain at the Cinema (2018)
The Shape Lives: 40 Years of Halloween (2018)
Six Sides of Katharine Hepburn (2018)
Tax Shelter Terrors (2017)
Close Up (2017)
The Best of Hollywood (2016)
The 4K Restoration of Roadgames: In Conversation with Vincent Monton ACS - Director of Photography, Road Games (2016)
Special Collector's Edition (2012)
Terror Train: Riding the Rails (2012)
Terror Train: Destination Death (2012)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007-2011)
A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (2010)
The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (2010)
Greek Uncovered (2008)
The Factor (2008)
20 to 1 (2007)
Ein Leben wie im Flug (2007)
Big John (2006)
Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006)
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror (2006)
¿De qué te ríes? (2006)
E! True Hollywood Story (2005)
When Stand-Up Comics Ruled the World (2004)
On Location: Fish You Were Here (2003)
Tales from the Mist: Inside 'the Fog' (2002)
Sendung ohne Namen (2002)
Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation (2001)
Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000)
The American Nightmare (2000)
The Haunted History of Halloween (1997)
True Lies (1995)
All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! (1994)
Roadgames: 1981 Interview with Richard Franklin (1981)
Archive footage

Roadgames: A Lecture by Richard Franklin, Barbi Taylor, and Brian May, 20 November (1981)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1980)
Additional Crew

Murder at the World Series (1977)

Videos

Awards

Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy.

Another 19 wins & 40 nominations.

Did You Know

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.

Quotes

[on the paparazzi] It's part of my job, but it's one thing if you take a picture of me head to toe, it's another thing when they focus in on your nose or something and that's all they're shooting because they're doing a story about nose jobs. Then ...