Jamie Lee Curtis
Actress
Jamie Lee Curtis is an award winning actress and critically-acclaimed and best-selling author of seven books: Is There Really a Human Race?, It's Hard to Be Five, I'm Gonna Like Me, Where Do Balloons Go?, Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day, Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born, and When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Olds Memoir of Her Youth. Today I Feel Silly enjoyed an extraordinary nine weeks on the New York Times best seller list and has sold over 750,000 copies. All of Curtis' picture books have been illustrated by the acclaimed artist, Laura Cornell.
Curtis has demonstrated her versatility as a film actress with starring roles in such acclaimed films as the blockbuster True Lies opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger, for which she earned a Golden Globe Award, and Trading Places with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd for which she earned a British Film Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also starred in Halloween: H2O, which was the 20 year sequel to Halloween, the now classic film which first brought her to the attention of audiences worldwide. Other memorable leading film role performances include A Fish Called Wanda, Fierce Creatures, Virus, Dominick And Eugene, Blue Steel, My Girl, Forever Young, Freaky Friday and Love Letters.
In television, Curtis co-starred opposite Richard Lewis in the acclaimed sitcom Anything But Love which earned her both a Golden Globe and Peoples Choice Award. Her role in TNTs adaptation of the Wendy Wasserstein play, The Heidi Chronicles, also earned her a Golden Globe nomination and more recently, Curtis starred in the CBS telefilm Nicholass Gift for which she received an Emmy nomination.
Curtis began her Hollywood career in 1977 when she signed on as a contract player with Universal Studios. She was a regular on the television series Operation Petticoat when she was cast in Halloween. That role led to subsequent roles in Prom Night, Terror Train and The Fog.
Married to actor Christopher Guest since 1984 and is the busy and proud mother of Annie and Thomas.
