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Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis’s screen credits include Linda Drysdale in Knives Out, Laurie in Halloween, and Lisa Barr in Sender.
Born November 22, 1958 Los Angeles, California, USA7 movies on MoviHero
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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. …
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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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- 2026Sender1h 34m · ThrillerLisa Barr
- 2021Halloween Kills1h 45m · HorrorLaurie Strode
- 2019Knives Out2h 11m · Comedy · CrimeLinda Drysdale
- 2018Halloween1h 46m · Horror · ThrillerLaurie Strode
- 2003Freaky Friday1h 37m · Comedy · FamilyTess Coleman
- 1981Halloween II1h 32m · Horror · ThrillerLaurie Strode
- 1978Halloween1h 31m · Horror · ThrillerLaurie
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- 2028Murder, She WroteJessica FletcherUpcoming
- 2026The Only Living Pickpocket in New YorkMoira
- 2025Ella McCayHelen
- 2025Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan PowterProducer
- 2025The Happiest Story on Earth: 70 Years of DisneylandSelf
- 2025The Lost BusProducer
- 2025Freakier FridayProducer · Tess Coleman
- 2025I Was Born This WayProducer
- 2025Star Trek: Section 31Control
- 2024The Last ShowgirlAnnette
- 2024Burn OutProducer
- 2024BorderlandsTannis
- 2023Haunted MansionMadame Leota
- 2022Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of FreedomSelf - Actress (archive footage)
- 2022Halloween EndsProducer · Laurie
- 2022Halloween in HollywoodSelf
- 2022Return to SenderProducer
- 2022Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at OnceSelf
- 2022Everything Everywhere All at OnceDeirdre Beaubeirdre
- 20212 TimersProducer
- 2021Senior EntourageJamie
- 2020In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween TakeoverJamie Lee Curtis
- 2020Best Summer EverProducer
- 2019An Acceptable LossRachel Burke
- 2018HondrosProducer
- 201778/52Self
- 2015Spare PartsPrincipal
- 2014Veronica MarsGayle Buckley
- 2013The Night She Came Home!!Self
- 2013Blood Is Thicker Than Water: The Making of Halloween H20Self
- 2012Tony Curtis: Driven to StardomSelf
- 20128Sandy Stier
- 2011Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1Self (archive footage)
- 2011The Little Engine That CouldBeverly (voice)
- 2010Halloween: The Inside StorySelf
- 2010You AgainGail
- 2009Dirt! The MovieSelf
- 2008Beverly Hills ChihuahuaAunt Viv
- 2008Not Quite HollywoodSelf
- 2006Halloween: 25 Years of TerrorSelf
- 2005The Kid & IJamie Lee Curtis
- 2004Christmas with the KranksNora Krank
- 2004John Carpenter: The Man and His MoviesSelf
- 2003Halloween: A Cut Above the RestSelf / Laurie Strode
- 2002Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'Self (archive)
- 2002Halloween: ResurrectionLaurie Strode
- 2001Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit ToysQueen Camilla (voice)
- 2001Daddy and ThemElaine Bowen
- 2001The Tailor of PanamaLouisa Pendel
- 2000The American NightmareSelf
- 2000Drowning MonaRona Mace
- 1999Halloween: UnmaskedSelf
- 1999VirusKelly Foster
- 1998Halloween H20: 20 Years LaterLaurie Strode / Keri Tate
- 1998Nicholas’ GiftMaggie Green
- 1998HomegrownSierra Kahan
- 1997The Haunted History of HalloweenSelf
- 1997Fierce CreaturesWilla Weston
- 1996House ArrestJanet Beindorf
- 1996Escape from L.A.Female Narrator (uncredited)
- 1995The Heidi ChroniclesHeidi Holland
- 1994True LiesHelen
- 1994My Girl 2Shelly Sultenfuss
- 1993Mother's BoysJudith 'Jude' Madigan
- 1992Forever YoungClaire Cooper
- 1991My GirlShelly DeVoto
- 1991Queens LogicGrace
- 1990Blue SteelOfficer Megan Turner
- 1988A Fish Called WandaWanda Gershwitz
- 1988Dominick and EugeneJennifer Reston
- 1987Amazing Grace and ChuckLynn Taylor
- 1987A Man in LoveSusan Elliott
- 1986Annie OakleyAnnie Oakley
- 1986As Summers DieWhitsey Loftin
- 1985PerfectJessie Wilson
- 1984Grandview, U.S.A.Michelle 'Mike' Cody
- 1983Trading PlacesOphelia
- 1983Love LettersAnna Winter
- 1982Halloween III: Season of the WitchCurfew Announcer / Telephone Operator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1982Money on the SideMichelle Jamison
- 1982Coming SoonSelf - Host
- 1981Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten StoryDorothy Stratten
- 1981Escape from New YorkNarrator / Prison Recording Voice (uncredited)
- 1981She's in the Army NowPvt. Rita Jennings
- 1981RoadgamesPamela 'Hitch' Rushworth
- 1980Terror TrainAlana
- 1980Prom NightKimberly Hammond
- 1980The FogElizabeth Solley
- Activia Kiss It Better EditActor
- SpychosisJamie
- The Debra Hill StoryProducer · Self
- The Honey Wars(voice)
- TrüebadourProducer
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Linda Drysdale
Knives Out
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Sender
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