Jamie Lee Curtis has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as an actress, hitting new heights this past year with her performance in the film Everything Everywhere All at Once, for which she won the Academy Award® and SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress of 2022 and was nominated for Golden Globe® and Independent Spirit Awards. The film captured a total of seven Academy Awards®, including Best Picture.
Previously, she demonstrated her versatility in such acclaimed films as the blockbuster True Lies, for which she won a Golden Globe® Award; Trading Places, for which she earned a BAFTA (British Film Academy Award); A Fish Called Wanda, for which she received BAFTA and Golden Globe® nominations; and the Disney feature film Freaky Friday, for which she received a Golden Globe® nomination. In 2021, Jamie received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival.
Her film debut as Laurie Strode in John Carpenter’s 1978 horror
Jamie Lee Curtis has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as an actress, hitting new heights this past year with her performance in the film Everything Everywhere All at Once, for which she won the Academy Award® and SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress of 2022 and was nominated for Golden Globe® and Independent Spirit Awards. The film captured a total of seven Academy Awards®, including Best Picture.
Previously, she demonstrated her versatility in such acclaimed films as the blockbuster True Lies, for which she won a Golden Globe® Award; Trading Places, for which she earned a BAFTA (British Film Academy Award); A Fish Called Wanda, for which she received BAFTA and Golden Globe® nominations; and the Disney feature film Freaky Friday, for which she received a Golden Globe® nomination. In 2021, Jamie received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival.
Her film debut as Laurie Strode in John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic Halloween brought her to the attention of audiences worldwide. 40 years later, in 2018, Curtis reprised that signature role in David Gordon Green’s record-breaking smash hit, also titled Halloween, produced by horror guru Jason Blum. Its opening weekend was the biggest debut ever, for any movie in any genre, to feature a female lead character over 55 years of age. A follow-up, Halloween Kills, was released in October 2021, and the final installment of the trilogy, Halloween Ends, was released last October.
In 2019 Curtis was one of the stars of the glittering ensemble cast of the smash hit Knives Out. In 2021, she filmed the big screen adaptation of the hugely popular video game Borderlands alongside Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart.
Curtis’ additional film credits include You Again with Sigourney Weaver, Kristen Bell and Betty White; Beverly Hills Chihuahua; Christmas with the Kranks opposite Tim Allen; The Tailor of Panama along with Pierce Brosnan and Geoffrey Rush; Blue Steel; My Girl; and My Girl 2 among many others.
On television, Curtis most recently guest-starred on 2 episodes of the award-winning Hulu series The Bear, and received stellar reviews. Other television highlights include two seasons of the Ryan Murphy-created series Scream Queens, for which she received a Golden Globe® nomination; the acclaimed sitcom Anything but Love, co-starring Richard Lewis, for which she earned a Golden Globe® and People’s Choice award; TNT’s adaptation of the Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles, for which she earned a Golden Globe® nomination; and the CBS television film Nicholas’ Gift, for which she was nominated for an Emmy® award.
In 2019 Curtis formed Comet Pictures, a film, television and podcast production company that has a first-look deal with Blumhouse. Comet's projects in the works include: Scarpetta, a series based on Patricia Cornwell's best-selling novels about forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta, and Mother Nature, an eco-horror film that Curtis will direct and co-wrote with Russell Goldman, based on the graphic novel written by Curtis and Goldman and illustrated by Karl Stevens, which was published in July of 2023. Curtis is also the founder and CEO of My Hand In Yours (myhandinyours.com), a charitable organization that offers comfort and celebration items with 100% of every sale donated directly to Children's Hospital Los Angeles, with which Curtis has been associated for over 25 years. Curtis is also a New York Times best-selling children’s book author, having written 13 books. Her most recent, Just One More Sleep was released in January.
