Jamie Lee Curtis , also known as The Lady Haden-Guest was born on November 22, 1958 and she is an American actress and writer.
Jamie Lee Curtis Biography
She was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of actor Tony Curtis and actress Janet Leigh. Her father was Jewish, the son of Hungarian Jewish immigrants. Two of her maternal great-grandparents were Danish, while the rest of her mother’s ancestry is German and Scots-Irish.
She has an older sister, Kelly Curtis, who is also an actress, and several half-siblings (all from their father’s remarriages): Alexandra, actress Allegra Curtis, Benjamin, and Nicholas Curtis (who died in 1994 of a drug overdose).
Her parents divorced in 1962. After the divorce, she said her father was “not around” and “wasn’t interested in being a father.”
She attended Westlake School (now Harvard-Westlake School) in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills High School, graduating from Choate Rosemary Hall.
When she was returning to California in 1976, she was attending her mother’s alma mater, the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, and studied law. She dropped out after one semester to pursue an acting career.
Jamie Lee Curtis Nude
She turns 50 posing nude for an AGENCIES magazine 22 retirees. Aside from being a world-class actress and novelist, she also seems to have a secret passion for art and nude photography and showing that she is not yet posing nude for the best-selling magazine in the United States, the publication for retirees ‘AARP’.
Jamie Lee Curtis Daughter
She and her husband have two adopted children : Annie, who was born on 1986 and Thomas, who was born on 1996.
Jamie Lee Curtis Career
Her film debut came in the 1978 horror film Halloween , in which she played the role of Laurie Strode. The film was a huge success and was considered the highest-grossing independent film of its time, earning praise as a classic horror film.
Subsequently, she was taking part in several horror films, which earned her the title “queen of screaming“. She would return to the Halloween franchise five times, playing Strode again in the sequels Halloween II (1981), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), Halloween: Resurrection (2002), and Halloween (2018), and with an uncredited voice role inHalloween III: Season of the Witch (1982).
Her next film after Halloween was The Fog , directed by Halloween director John Carpenter. The horror film was released in February 1980 to mixed reviews but strong box office, starting Curtis as a horror movie star. Her next film, Prom Night , was a low-budget Canadian slasher film released in July 1980.
The film, for which she earned a Genie Award nomination for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress, was similar in style. to Halloween, but received negative reviews. which marked it as a throwaway entry in the then-popular slasher genre.
That year, she also starred in Terror Train , which opened in October and received similar negative reviews to Prom Night . Both films performed moderately at the box office.
Her roles in the last two films served a similar function to Strode’s: the main character whose friends are killed and he is virtually the only protagonist who survives. Film critic Roger Ebert, who gave all three of her 1980 films negative reviews, said that Curtis “is to the current glut of horror films what Christopher Lee was to the last, or Boris Karloff in the 1930s.”
In 1981, she appeared opposite Stacey Keach in the Australian thriller Roadgames , directed by Carpenter’s friend Richard Franklin; the importation of her, which was requested by the film’s American distributor AVCO Embassy Pictures, was contested by the Sydney branch of Actors Equity.
Although the film was a box office bomb in Australia and Franklin later regretted not upping her role, she has achieved a cult following and was championed by Quentin Tarantino.
Jamie Lee Curtis And Her Children’s Books
Working with illustrator Laura Cornell, she has written several children’s books, all published by HarperCollins Children’s Books.
- When I Was Little: Memories of His Youth as a Four-Year- Old, 1993.
- Tell me again about the night I was born , 1996.
- I’m Feeling Silly Today and Other Moods That Brighten My Day , 1998; included on the New York Times bestseller list for 10 weeks.
- Where Do the Balloons Go?: An Uplifting Mystery , 2000.
- I’m Gonna Like It: Dropping Some Self-Esteem , 2002.
- It’s Hard to be Five: Learning to Use My Dashboard , 2004.
- Is there really a human race? , 2006.
- Big Words for Little People , ISBN 978-0-06-112759-5, 2008.
- My Friend Jay , 2009, issue of one, presented to Jay Leno
- My Mama Hung the Moon: A Love Story , 2010.
- My Brave Year of Firsts , 2016.
- This Is Me: A Story of Who We Are and Where We Come From , 2016.
- Me, Myself, and I: A Cautionary Tale , 2018.
How Old Is Jamie Lee Curtis
She is 63 years old.
Jamie Lee Curtis Halloween
She returned to starring roles with her reprisal of Laurie Strode in the sequel horror film Halloween (2018).
The film debuted to $76.2 million, marking the second-best October opening weekend and the highest for the Halloween franchise .
Her opening performance was the best for a film starring a lead actress over 55 years old. It also became the highest grossing franchise. Her performance garnered critical acclaim.
Also in 2018, she had a role in the drama film An Acceptable Loss . She then played Linda Drysdale-Thrombrey in Rian Johnson’s mystery film Knives Out , which garnered critical acclaim and over $300 million at the worldwide box office.
She is set to reprise her role as Laurie Strode in the horror sequel Halloween Kills , which will be released in October 2021.
She will reprise the role for the sequel Halloween Ends , which will be released in October 2022. She will also appear in the science fiction action movie Everything Everywhere All at Once .
Jamie Lee Curtis Young
Her role in 1983 ‘s Trading Places helped her shed her image as a queen of terror and earned her a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress.
She then starred in the 1988 comedy film A Fish Called Wanda , which achieved cult status as it showcased her as a comedic actress. For her performance, she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
She received positive reviews for her performance in the action thriller Blue Steel (1990), which was directed by Kathryn Bigelow. She also received a Golden Globe Award for her work in the 1994 action-comedy film True Lies , directed by James Cameron.
Other role films of her was also including the coming-of-age films My Girl (1991) and My Girl 2 (1994), and the Disney comedy film Freaky Friday (2003), opposite Lindsay Lohan. The latter has been filmed at Palisades High School in Pacific Palisades, California, near where Curtis and Guest lived with their children.
She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-Comedy or Musical for her performance in the film. She starred in the Christmas comedy film Christmas with the Kranks (2004), which gained a cult following.
Jamie Lee Curtis Net Worth
According to Celebrity Net Worth, her net worth is $60 million. She has earned this money mainly through her work as an actress, but also producing and becoming an author.
Jamie Lee Curtis Private Life
She married Christopher Guest on December 18, 1984. She saw a picture of him from the movie This Is Spinal Tap in Rolling Stone and told her friend Debra Hill, “Oh, I’m going to marry that guy”, marrying with him five months later. She is the godmother of actor Jake Gyllenhaal.
When her father-in-law died on 8 April 1996, her husband became The Rt Hon. The 5th Baron Haden-Guest, making her a baroness with the style The Right Honorable The Lady Haden-Guest , in accordance with the rules of peerage british . She rejects the idea of ​​using this title, saying “she has nothing to do with me”.
She is close friends with actress Sigourney Weaver, but in a 2015 interview she said that she had never seen Weaver’s film Alien in its entirety because she was too scared.
She is a recovering alcoholic and was once addicted to painkillers that she started using after a routine cosmetic surgical procedure. She became sober from opiates in 1999 after reading and relating to Tom Chiarella‘s account of addiction; and she maintains that recovery is the greatest achievement of her life.
After her father’s death, she learned that her entire family, including her siblings, had been excluded from his will.
As a fan of World of Warcraft and One Piece , she was attending Comic-Con and BlizzCon incognito .
She once helped his son Thomas create a cosplay of the blood elf character Kael’thas Sunstrider, which he entered in a BlizzCon costume contest. Together they also had the opportunity to attend the Warcraft movie premiere on June 6, 2016 at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood.