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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Known For

Knives Out Not in library

Knives Out

2019

Everything Everywhere All at Once Not in library

Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

Halloween Not in library

Halloween

1978

Halloween Not in library

Halloween

2018

True Lies Not in library

True Lies

1994

Freaky Friday Not in library

Freaky Friday

2003

Trading Places Not in library

Trading Places

1983

Escape from New York Not in library

Escape from New York

1981

Halloween Kills Not in library

Halloween Kills

2021

NCIS Not in library

NCIS

2003

Acting

2028 Google and the Bugs as Bugs
2027 Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher
2026 Sender
2026 The Only Living Pickpocket in New York as Moira
2026 Scarpetta as Dorothy (8 episodes) In Library
2025 Freakier Friday as Tess Coleman
2025 Ella McCay as Helen
2025 Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter as Self
2025 Star Trek: Section 31 as Control
2025 The Happiest Story on Earth: 70 Years of Disneyland as Self
2025 Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction as Maj von Dardel (voice)
2025 Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies as Self - (archive footage)
2024 The Last Showgirl as Annette
2024 Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés as Self
2024 Disney Legends Awards Ceremony as Self
2024 Borderlands as Tannis
2024 The Sticky as Bo (2 episodes)
2023 Haunted Mansion as Madame Leota
2023 Arnold as Self (2 episodes)
2022 Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2022 Halloween in Hollywood as Self
2022 Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once as Self
2022 Halloween Ends as Laurie
2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once as Deirdre Beaubeirdre
2022 The Bear as Donna Berzatto (6 episodes)
2022 Reno 911! Defunded as Lieutenant Donna Fritzgibbons (1 episode)
2021 Halloween Kills as Laurie Strode
2021 Senior Entourage as Jamie
2021 Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts as Self (1 episode)
2020 In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover as Jamie Lee Curtis
2019 An Acceptable Loss as Rachel Burke
2019 Knives Out as Linda Drysdale
2019 The Masked Singer as Special Message (video) (1 episode)
2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self (4 episodes)
2019 The Movies That Made Us as Self (Archival Footage) (1 episode)
2019 Today with Jenna & Sheinelle as Self (1 episode)
2018 Halloween as Laurie Strode
2018 Eli Roth's History of Horror as Self (3 episodes)
2017 78/52 as Self
2015 Spare Parts as Principal
2015 Scream Queens as Dean Cathy Munsch (23 episodes)
2015 The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest (3 episodes)
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest (2 episodes)
2014 Veronica Mars as Gayle Buckley
2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self (2 episodes)
2013 Blood Is Thicker Than Water: The Making of Halloween H20 as Self
2013 The Night She Came Home!! as Self
2012 8 as Sandy Stier
2012 Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom as Self
2012 Beauty CULTure as Self
2012 Driving Lessons as Laurie Strode (archive footage)
2011 The Little Engine That Could as Beverly (voice)
2011 Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1 as Self (archive footage)
2011 New Girl as Joan Day (6 episodes)
2010 You Again as Gail
2010 Video Games Live: Level 2 as Self
2010 Halloween: The Inside Story as Self
2009 Dirt! The Movie as Self
2009 Archer as Peregrine Bruchstein (voice) (2 episodes)
2008 Beverly Hills Chihuahua as Aunt Viv
2008 Not Quite Hollywood as Self
2008 The Bonnie Hunt Show as Self (1 episode)
2007 The Graham Norton Show as Self (2 episodes)
2006 Halloween: 25 Years of Terror as Self
2006 El hormiguero as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2006 The Megan Mullally Show as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2005 The Kid & I as Jamie Lee Curtis
2005 The Reichen Show as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2004 Christmas with the Kranks as Nora Krank
2004 John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies as Self
2003 Freaky Friday as Tess Coleman
2003 Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest as Self / Laurie Strode
2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self (1 episode)
2003 Mike's Super Short Show
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self (1 episode)
2003 NCIS as Samantha Ryan (5 episodes)
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest (3 episodes)
2002 Halloween: Resurrection as Laurie Strode
2002 Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song as Narrator (voice)
2001 The Tailor of Panama as Louisa Pendel
2001 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys as Queen Camilla (voice)
2001 Daddy and Them as Elaine Bowen
2001 Revealed with Jules Asner
2000 Drowning Mona as Rona Mace
2000 The American Nightmare as Self
2000 Pigs Next Door as Clara (voice) (13 episodes)
1999 Virus as Kelly Foster
1999 Halloween: Unmasked as Self
1999 Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special as Self (uncredited)
1999 The Early Show as Self (1 episode)
1998 Halloween H20: 20 Years Later as Laurie Strode / Keri Tate
1998 Homegrown as Sierra Kahan
1998 Nicholas’ Gift as Maggie Green
1998 Unmasking the Horror
1997 Fierce Creatures as Willa Weston
1997 The Haunted History of Halloween as Self
1997 The View as Self (9 episodes)
1997 The View as Self - Guest (3 episodes)
1997 Leute heute as Self (2 episodes)
1996 House Arrest as Janet Beindorf
1996 Escape from L.A. as Female Narrator (uncredited)
1996 The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful as Self
1996 Ellen's Energy Adventure as Dr. Judy Peterson (uncredited)
1996 E! True Hollywood Story
1996 The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1995 The Heidi Chronicles as Heidi Holland
1995 The Drew Carey Show as Sioux (1 episode)
1995 The Frank Skinner Show as Self (1 episode)
1994 My Girl 2 as Shelly Sultenfuss
1994 True Lies as Helen
1994 Cindy Sherman: Nobody's Here But Me as Narrator (voice)
1994 Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! as Self (archive footage)
1993 Mother's Boys as Judith 'Jude' Madigan
1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1993 Intimate Portrait as Self (2 episodes)
1992 Forever Young as Claire Cooper
1992 A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out as Jamie Lee Curtis
1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self (7 episodes)
1991 My Girl as Shelly DeVoto
1991 Queens Logic as Grace
1990 Blue Steel as Officer Megan Turner
1990 Help Save Planet Earth as Self
1989 Anything But Love as Hannah Miller (56 episodes)
1988 A Fish Called Wanda as Wanda Gershwitz
1988 Dominick and Eugene as Jennifer Reston
1988 John Cleese's First Farewell Performance as Self
1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1987 A Man in Love as Susan Elliott
1987 Amazing Grace and Chuck as Lynn Taylor
1986 As Summers Die as Whitsey Loftin
1985 Perfect as Jessie Wilson
1985 Annie Oakley as Annie Oakley
1985 Tall Tales & Legends as Annie Oakley (1 episode)
1984 Grandview, U.S.A. as Michelle 'Mike' Cody
1984 Jeopardy! as Self - Clue Presenter (1 episode)
1983 Trading Places as Ophelia
1983 Love Letters as Anna Winter
1982 Coming Soon as Herself
1982 Money on the Side as Michelle Jamison
1982 Halloween III: Season of the Witch as Curfew Announcer / Telephone Operator (voice) (uncredited)
1982 Callahan as Rachel Bartlett
1982 Wogan as Self (1 episode)
1981 Halloween II as Laurie Strode
1981 Roadgames as Pamela 'Hitch' Rushworth
1981 Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story as Dorothy Stratten
1981 She's in the Army Now as Pvt. Rita Jennings
1981 Escape from New York as Narrator / Prison Recording Voice (uncredited)
1980 The Fog as Elizabeth Solley
1980 Terror Train as Alana
1980 Prom Night as Kimberly Hammond
1980 Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog' as Self
1980 Fridays as Self (1 episode)
1979 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as Jen Burton (1 episode)
1978 Halloween as Laurie
1977 The Love Boat as Linda (1 episode)
1977 The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977 Operation Petticoat as Lt. Barbara Duran (23 episodes)
1976 Charlie's Angels as Linda Frye (1 episode)
1976 Quincy, M.E. as Girl in Dressing Room (1 episode)
1975 Saturday Night Live as Self - Host (2 episodes)
1971 Columbo as Waitress (1 episode)
1953 The Oscars as Self (4 episodes)
1953 The Oscars as Self - Presenter (1 episode)
1952 Today as Self (1 episode)
1944 Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter (3 episodes)
1944 Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee (4 episodes)
1944 Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee / Presenter (2 episodes)
Spychosis as Jamie
The Debra Hill Story as Self
Activia Kiss It Better Edit
The Honey Wars as (voice)

Directing

2015 Scream Queens Director
1989 Anything But Love Director

Writing

Mother Nature Writer

Production

2026 Sender Producer
2026 Scarpetta Executive Producer In Library
2025 The Lost Bus Producer
2025 Freakier Friday Producer
2025 Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter Executive Producer
2025 I Was Born This Way Executive Producer
2024 Burn Out Executive Producer
2024 The Sticky Executive Producer
2022 Return to Sender Producer
2022 Halloween Ends Executive Producer
2021 Halloween Kills Executive Producer
2021 2 Timers Executive Producer
2020 Best Summer Ever Executive Producer
2018 Halloween Executive Producer
2018 Hondros Co-Executive Producer
The Debra Hill Story Executive Producer

Crew

2022 Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once Thanks
1977 Murder at the World Series Dialogue Coach