Age, Biography, and Wiki
Jamie Lee Curtis was born in Santa Monica, California, to a family deeply rooted in the entertainment industry. Her father, Tony Curtis, and mother, Janet Leigh, were both prominent actors. She has an older sister, Kelly Curtis, who also pursued a career in acting. Curtis's early life was marked by her parents' divorce when she was four years old. She attended Westlake School, Beverly Hills High School, and later graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall. Curtis initially studied law at the University of the Pacific but dropped out to pursue acting.
| Occupation | Voice Actress |
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| Date of Birth | 22 November 1958 |
| Age | 66 Years |
| Birth Place | Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Horoscope | Scorpio |
| Country | U.S |
Height, Weight & Measurements
While specific recent measurements are not readily available, Jamie Lee Curtis is known for her distinctive appearance and has been a presence in the entertainment industry for decades without significant changes in her physical stature.
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Dating & Relationship Status
Jamie Lee Curtis has been married to actor, writer, director, and producer Christopher Guest since 1984. The couple adopted two children, Annie and Ruby Guest. This long-standing relationship has contributed to her personal stability and professional success.
Her mother was of Danish, German, and Scotch-Irish descent. Her father was Jewish, a son of emigrants from Mátészalka, Hungary. She has an older sister, actress Kelly Curtis (born 1956), and four half-siblings from her father's later marriages: Alexandra, actress Allegra Curtis (born 1966), Benjamin, and Nicholas (who died of a drug overdose in 1994).
Curtis's parents divorced in 1962. She has stated that, after the divorce, her father was "not around" and that he was "not interested in being a father". After her father's death, she learned that she and her siblings had all been cut out of his will. Her mother married stockbroker Robert Brandt, who helped raise her. Curtis attended the elite Harvard-Westlake School and Beverly Hills High School in Los Angeles, and graduated in 1976 from Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut. Returning to California in 1976, she studied law at her mother's alma mater—University of the Pacific in Stockton, California —but dropped out after one semester to pursue an acting career.
Curtis made her television debut in a 1977 episode of the drama series Quincy, M.E.. She went on to guest star on several series, including The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, Columbo, Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. She appeared as Nurse Lt. Barbara Duran in the short-lived comedy series Operation Petticoat (1977–1978), based on the 1959 film that starred her father, Tony Curtis. Curtis was also a game show panelist on several episodes of Match Game.
Her film debut occurred in John Carpenter's 1978 horror film Halloween, in which she played the role of Laurie Strode. The film was a major success and was considered the highest-grossing independent film of its time, earning accolades as a classic horror film. The producer, Debra Hill, specifically cast Curtis because her mother, Janet Leigh, had been known as a horror icon due to her Oscar-nominated performance in Psycho. She would also return to the Halloween franchise seven times, playing Strode in the sequels Halloween II (1981), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), Halloween: Resurrection (2002), Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills (2021), and Halloween Ends (2022), and having an uncredited voice role in Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982).
Curtis received positive reviews for her performance in the action thriller Blue Steel (1990), which was directed by Kathryn Bigelow. The following year, she appeared in My Girl, opposite her Trading Places co-star Dan Aykroyd. The film was a great commercial success and was followed by a sequel, My Girl 2, in 1994. In 1992, Curtis starred alongside Mel Gibson in the romantic fantasy film Forever Young. The following year, she appeared in the psychological thriller Mother's Boys.
In 2000, Curtis was honored with the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year award and appeared in the crime comedy film Drowning Mona, starring Danny DeVito and Bette Midler. The following year, she starred as Geoffrey Rush's wife in the spy-triller film The Tailor of Panama and appeared in Billy Bob Thornton's Daddy and Them. Also in 2001, she voiced Queen Camilla in the animated Christmas film Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys. She appeared in Halloween: Resurrection in 2002.
In 2012, she appeared in five episodes of the military drama series NCIS, playing the role of Dr. Samantha Ryan, a potential romantic interest of Special Agent Gibbs (Mark Harmon). During an interview, she stated that if they could develop a storyline, she would be interested to return to the series, but this never occurred. The series reunited Curtis with Harmon, after he played her character's fiancé and later husband in the 2003 remake of Freaky Friday. This was followed by supporting roles in the neo-noir mystery film Veronica Mars (2014) and the biographical drama film Spare Parts (2015). In 2016, IndieWire named her one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination (Curtis received her first Academy Award nomination in 2023).
From 2012 to 2018, Curtis had a recurring role as Joan Day, the mother of Zooey Deschanel's character, in the sitcom New Girl. From 2015 to 2016, Curtis had a lead role as Cathy Munsch on the Fox satirical horror comedy series Scream Queens, which aired for two seasons. Curtis filmed an intricate homage to her mother's classic shower scene in Psycho in a season one episode. For her performance in the first season, Curtis was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy and the People's Choice Award for Favorite Actress in a New TV Series. In 2017, Curtis was mentioned by Eminem in Big Sean's song No Favors.
In February 2022, Curtis was announced to have co-written a graphic novel, Mother Nature, which is based on an upcoming eco-horror film made by Comet Pictures and Blumhouse Productions that will be written and directed by Curtis. The graphic novel was published in July 2023 by Titan Comics, written by Curtis and filmmaker Russell Goldman, and illustrated by Karl Stevens.
Beginning in 1990, Curtis and her father, Tony, took a renewed interest in their family's Hungarian Jewish heritage, and helped finance the rebuilding of the "Great Synagogue" in Budapest, Hungary. The largest synagogue in Europe, it was originally built in 1859 and suffered damage during World War II.
In October 2023, The Advocate honored Curtis with the Advocate of the Year award as a part of the Out100 celebration. Curtis, who is mother to a transgender daughter, then gave a speech condemning anti-LGBTQ+ lawmakers and their supporters, stating: "Freedom is the goal." In January 2025, she donated $1 million to the Los Angeles wildfires relief efforts.
On April 8, 1996, her husband Guest inherited the title Baron Haden-Guest when his father died. As the wife of a hereditary peer, Curtis is a baroness styled as The Lady Haden-Guest. Curtis does not use this title, saying, "it has nothing to do with me".
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Net Worth and Salary
As of 2025, Jamie Lee Curtis's net worth is reported to be around $60 million when combined with her husband Christopher Guest's assets. This figure reflects her successful career in film and television, as well as her work as an author. Notably, her breakthrough role in "Halloween" (1978) earned her a salary of $8,000, which was relatively low for a lead role but marked the beginning of her successful career.
She appeared as persnickety Internal Revenue Service (IRS) inspector Deirdre Beaubeirdre in the comedy-drama action film Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), which earned her nominations for an Academy Award, BAFTA, Critics' Choice, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress, in addition to a nomination for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Performance. It was Curtis's first Oscar nomination. She ultimately won the Academy Award and SAG Award, marking her first time winning both, as well as being part of the cast's Best Ensemble win at the SAG Awards.
Career, Business, and Investments
Jamie Lee Curtis gained fame with her debut in the horror film "Halloween" (1978), which led to her being dubbed the "Scream Queen" of horror movies. She continued to appear in various horror films before transitioning to comedic roles, starring in films like "Freaky Friday" and "Knives Out". Her role in "Everything Everywhere All at Once" (2022) earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2023. In addition to her acting career, Curtis is a successful author and has been involved in various endorsement deals, contributing to her wealth.
In 2004, she starred in the Christmas comedy film Christmas with the Kranks, which was critically derided but a box office success. The following year, she appeared as herself along with her True Lies co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger in the comedy film The Kid & I and hosted the CBS program A Home for the Holidays. In October 2006, Curtis told Access Hollywood that she had closed the book on her acting career to focus on her family.
In 2024, Curtis was named a Disney Legend by The Walt Disney Company. She portrayed Dr. Patricia Tannis in the film Borderlands, which adapts the video game series of the same name. It was released on August 9, 2024, to negative reviews from critics and bombed at the box office. She also appeared in Gia Coppola's film The Last Showgirl, which premiered at TIFF on September 6, 2024, and garnered her a fourth SAG Awards nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role and a fourth BAFTA Awards nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
Social Network
Jamie Lee Curtis maintains a presence on social media and is often involved in discussions and promotions related to her work. However, she is not as active on platforms like Instagram or Twitter as some of her peers, focusing more on her professional engagements and public appearances.
In 1981, she appeared alongside Stacey Keach in the Australian thriller film Roadgames, directed by Carpenter's friend Richard Franklin; her importation, 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 increasing the size of Curtis's role, it has achieved a cult following and was championed by Quentin Tarantino. That same year, Curtis reprised her role of Laurie Strode in Halloween II. She starred in the television films Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story, playing the eponymous doomed Playmate, and She's in the Army Now.
Curtis was a blogger for The Huffington Post online newspaper from 2011 to 2017. On her website, Curtis tells her young readers that she "moonlights as an actor, photographer, and closet organizer".
In March 2012, Curtis was featured with Martin Sheen and Brad Pitt in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play 8—a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage—as Sandy Stier. The production was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and broadcast on YouTube to raise money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights. In June 2016, the Human Rights Campaign released a video in tribute to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting; in the video, Curtis and others told the stories of the people killed there.
In 2021, Curtis received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the 78th Venice International Film Festival and said, "I feel so alive, like I'm this 14-year-old person just beginning their life. That's how I wake up every day with that sort of joy and purpose. I'm just beginning my work."
Education
Curtis attended Westlake School, Beverly Hills High School, and later graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall. She briefly studied law at the University of the Pacific before deciding to pursue a career in acting. This educational background provided her with a solid foundation, although she ultimately chose to follow her passion for acting.
Her role as a kindhearted prostitute in 1983's Trading Places helped Curtis shed her horror queen image; the film was a great critical and commercial success and garnered Curtis a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She had previously worked with director John Landis on the documentary Coming Soon. The studio originally objected to Curtis's casting, as she was primarily associated with horror films: "The casting people all thought [Landis] was crazy, and he single-handedly changed the course of my life by giving me that part", Curtis later stated. The following year, Curtis appeared in the romantic drama film Love Letters and the comedy-drama Grandview, U.S.A..
In 2003, Curtis was cast opposite Lindsay Lohan in the Disney comedy film Freaky Friday. The film was shot at Palisades High School in Pacific Palisades, California, near where Curtis and Guest lived with their children. Curtis received praise for her performance; A. O. Scott from The New York Times contended that she "does some of her best work ever", while Entertainment Weekly called her performance "glorious". Her performance earned her another nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. She also received a Grammy Award nomination that same year for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for the audiobook The Jamie Lee Curtis Audio Collection.
Curtis has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award (from four nominations), an Emmy Award (from two nominations), two Golden Globe Awards (from eight nominations), and two Screen Actors Guild Awards (from four nominations). She has also been nominated for a Grammy Award and an Independent Spirit Award. She received the Maltin Modern Master Award from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2023.
