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Jamie Lee Curtis
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Jamie Lee Curtis, Lady Haden-Guest (born November 22, 1958) is an American actress and author.

PERSONAL LIFE

Curtis married actor Christopher Guest on December 18, 1984, becoming the Lady Haden-Guest when her husband inherited the Barony of Haden-Guest in 1996, upon the death of his father. She originally felt in love when she saw a picture of him from the movie This Is Spinal Tap in Rolling Stone saying to her friend Debra Hill "Oh, I'm going to marry that guy", actually marrying him five months later. The couple have two adopted children (Annie, b. 1986; Thomas b. 1996). Curtis is actor Jake Gyllenhaal's godmother.

She is close friends with actress Sigourney Weaver. She admitted in her interview in her in 2015 that she never succeeded to see her film Alien entirely, because she was too scared.

On her website, Curtis tells her young readers that she "moonlights as an actor, photographer, and closet organizer." She takes time to support various philanthropic groups. Curtis appeared on the cover of the May/June 2008 issue of AARP Magazine, with gray hair and in water up to her chest.

Curtis is a recovering alcoholic, and was once addicted to pain killers that she began using after a routine cosmetic surgical procedure. She became sober in 1999 and maintains that recovery is the greatest achievement of her life.

Curtis has appeared in advertisements for Activia since 2007, and is a blogger for The Huffington Post online newspaper.

FILMS

Curtis's film debut occurred in the 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. Curtis was subsequently cast in several horror films, garnering her the title, "scream queen".

Her next film was the horror film The Fog, which was helmed by Halloween director John Carpenter. The film opened in February 1980 to mixed reviews but strong box office, further cementing Curtis as a horror film starlet. 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, yet received negative reviews which marked it as a disposable entry in the then-popular "slasher film" genre. That year, Curtis also starred in Terror Train, which opened in October and was met with negative reviews akin to Prom Night. Both films performed moderately well at the box office.
Curtis at the 1989 Emmy Awards

Curtis had a similar function in both films - the main character whose friends are murdered, and is practically the only protagonist to survive. Film critic Roger Ebert, who had given negative reviews to all three of Curtis's 1980 films, said that Curtis "is to the current horror film glut what Christopher Lee was to the last one-or Boris Karloff was in the 1930s".[6] Curtis later appeared in Halloween II, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later and Halloween: Resurrection, as well as giving an uncredited voice role in Halloween III: Season of the Witch.

Her role in 1983's Trading Places helped Curtis shed her horror queen image, and garnered her a BAFTA award as best supporting actress. 1988's A Fish Called Wanda achieved near cult status – while showcasing her as a comedic actress; she was nominated for a BAFTA as best leading actress. She won a Golden Globe for her work in 1994's True Lies. Her film roles also include Disney's Freaky Friday (2003), opposite Lindsay Lohan, filmed at Palisades High School in Pacific Palisades, California, near where Curtis and Guest live with their children. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for this film.

In October 2006, Curtis told Access Hollywood that she had closed the book on her acting career to focus on her family. She returned to acting after being cast in June 2007 in Disney's live-action-animated film, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, co-starring opposite Piper Perabo as one of three live-action characters in the film. She also starred in the 2010 comedy film You Again, opposite Kristen Bell and Sigourney Weaver.

TELEVISION

Curtis made her television debut in an episode of Columbo, but her first starring TV role was opposite Richard Lewis in the situation comedy Anything But Love, which ran for four seasons from 1989 through 1992. Her performance as Hannah Miller received both a Golden Globe and People's Choice Award. She appeared as nurse Lt. Duran in the short-lived television series, Operation Petticoat; based on the big-screen version which starred her real-life father.

She starred in the 1981 TV film Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story, playing the role of the eponymous doomed Playmate. She earned a Golden Globe nomination for her work in TNT's adaptation of the Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles. More recently, Curtis starred in the CBS television movie Nicholas' Gift, for which she received an Emmy nomination. Curtis also appeared in the science fiction series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and an early episode of The Drew Carey Show. Jamie Lee Curtis was a game-show panelist on several episodes of Match Game.

In 2012, she appeared in 5 episodes of the television series NCIS, playing the role of Dr. Samantha Ryan, a potential romantic interest of Special Agent Gibbs (Mark Harmon). It has been hinted that her role may be a recurring one. During an interview, she openly said that if they could develop a story line, she would be more than happy to be on the show more. If the role is made recurring, it will be at least the second time Harmon has worked with Curtis; he played her fiancé and later husband in the 2003 remake of Freaky Friday.

YEAR: FILM - CHARACTER

1978: Halloween - Laurie Strode
1980: The Fog - Elizabeth Solley
1980: Prom Night - Kim Hammond
1980: Terror Train - Alana Maxwell
1981: Escape from New York - Narrator [Voiced]
1981: Roadgames - Pamela "Hitch" Rushworth
1981: Halloween II - Laurie Strode
1982: Halloween III: Season of the Witch - Telephone Operator [Voiced]
1983: Trading Places - Ophelia
1984: Love Letters - Anna Winters
1984: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - Sandra Banzai
1984: Grandview, U.S.A. - Michelle "Mike" Cody
1985: Perfect - Jessie
1987: A Man in Love - Susan Elliot
1987: Amazing Grace and Chuck - Lynn Taylor
1988: Dominick and Eugene - Jennifer Reston
1988: A Fish Called Wanda - Wanda Gershwitz
1989: Blue Steel - Megan Turner
1991: Queen's Logic - Grace
1991: My Girl - Shelly DeVoto
1992: Forever Young - Claire Cooper
1994: My Girl 2 - Shelly DeVoto Sultenfuss
1994: Mother's Boys - Judith "Jude" Madigan
1994: True Lies - Helen Tasker
1996: House Arrest - Janet Beindorf
1997: Fierce Creatures - Willa Weston
1998: Halloween H20: 20 Years Later - Laurie Strode/Keri Tate
1998: Homegrown - Sierra Kahan
1999: Virus - Kelly Foster
2000: Drowning Mona - Rona Mace
2001: The Tailor of Panama - Louisa Pendel
2001: Daddy and Them - Elaine Bowen
2001: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys - Queen Camilla [Voiced]
2002: Halloween: Resurrection - Laurie Strode
2003: Freaky Friday - Tess Coleman/Anna Coleman
2004: Christmas with the Kranks - Nora Krank
2005: The Kid & I - Herself
2008: Beverly Hills Chihuahua - Aunt Viv
2010: You Again - Gail
2011: The Little Engine That Could - Beverly "Bev" [Voiced]
2012: From Up on Poppy Hill - Ryoko Matsuzaki [Voiced, English Version]
2014: Veronica Mars - Gayle Buckley
2015: Spare Parts - The Principal

YEAR: TV - CHARACTER

1977: Quincy M.E. - Girl in Dressing Room
1977: The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries - Mary
1977: Columbo - Waitress
1978: The Love Boat - Linda
1978: Charlie's Angels - Linda Frey
1978–79: Operation Petticoat - Lt. Barbara Duran
1979: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Jen Burton
1981: She's in the Army Now - Pvt. Rita Jennings [TV Movie]
1981: Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story - Dorothy Stratten [TV Movie]
1982: Callahan - Rachel Bartlett [TV Movie]
1982: Money on the Side - Michelle Jamison [TV Movie]
1985: Tall Tales & Legends - Annie Oakley
1986: As Summers Die - Whitsey Loftin
1989–92: Anything But Love - Hannah Miller
1995: The Heidi Chronicles - Heidi Holland [TV Movie]
1996: The Drew Carey Show - Sioux
1998: Nicholas' Gift - Maggie Green [TV Movie]
2000: Pigs Next Door - Clara [Voiced]
2005: A Home for the Holidays - TV Program Host [TV Movie]
2012: NCIS - Dr. Samantha Ryan
2012-15: New Girl - Joan Day
2014: Only Human - Evelyn Lang [TV Movie]
2015: Scream Queens - TBA
Your first impression of me may be that I am a terrible person
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They said I wasn't good enough for television. How do you like me now, voices in my head?
Omg :revengeup:
Was this worth the effort?
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Apr 7 2015, 06:21 PM
Omg :revengeup:
Was this worth the effort?
It is always worth the effort when it comes to the Queen of Final Girls :gagatea:
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Apr 11 2015, 06:24 PM
It is always worth the effort when it comes to the Queen of Final Girls :gagatea:
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When you walk into the room. You pull me close and we start to move
And we're spinning with the stars above. And you lift me up in a wave of love
Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? Ooh heaven is a place on earth
They say in heaven love comes first. We'll make heaven a place on earth

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They said I wasn't good enough for television. How do you like me now, voices in my head?
Her most iconic role is Freaky Friday dont even try to argue
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Ikr she was AMAZING in Freaky Friday

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