Jamie Lee Curtis

Birthday: 22 November 1958, Los Angeles, California, USA

Height: 170 cm

Jamie Lee Curtis was born on November 22, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of legendary actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. She got her big break at acting in 1978 when she won the role of Laurie Strode in Halloween (1978). After that, she became famous for roles in movies like Trading Places (1983), Perfect (1985) and A Fish Called Wanda (1988). She starred in one of the biggest action films ever, True Lies (1994), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for her performance. Curtis also appeared on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979), and starred in Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981) as the title role. Her first starring role was opposite Richard Lewis on the ABC situation comedy Anything But Love (1989). In 1998, she starred in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) in which she reprised her role that made her famous back in 1978.Her paternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants, while two of her maternal great-grandparents were Danish. Show less «

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.Family Circle, 4-18-06.

[on The Fog (1980)] I am surprised that it has such popularity because I just don't think it's that ...Show more »

[on The Fog (1980)] I am surprised that it has such popularity because I just don't think it's that good a film. Show less «

[Speaking at the funeral of her father Tony Curtis] All of us got something from him. I, of course, ...Show more »

[Speaking at the funeral of her father Tony Curtis] All of us got something from him. I, of course, got his desperate need for attention. Show less «

Halloween: Resurrection (2002) was a joke.

When I did Sesame Street (1969), Elmo was not the worldwide phenomenon he is now. I understood Elmo ...Show more »

When I did Sesame Street (1969), Elmo was not the worldwide phenomenon he is now. I understood Elmo was special, and I said that the only way I would do Sesame Street was with Elmo. Kevin Clash, the young man who did the voice for him, was a very sweet guy and I predicted Elmo's meteoric rise to fame way in advance. I am a trendsetter without knowing it. Two years later the Elmo craze began, but I was ahead of the curve. Show less «

I'm Laurie Strode's guardian angel.

When asked if she regretted making any films - Easy. There's a piece of shit called Virus (1999) whi...Show more »

When asked if she regretted making any films - Easy. There's a piece of shit called Virus (1999) which I made because another movie that I was supposed to do fell through. It was a bad choice and the movie is a piece of shit. The runner up is a movie called Grandview, U.S.A. (1984), which is this benign but still bad coming of age movie, which is just bad. I will never, ever see those films again. They are laughable, ludicrous movies and I'm bad in them. They're nasty. Show less «

I'm not sure what fame is for if it isn't to focus on charitable work.

[on the paparazzi] It's part of my job, but it's one thing if you take a picture of me head to toe, ...Show more »

[on the paparazzi] It's part of my job, but it's one thing if you take a picture of me head to toe, it's another thing when they focus in on your nose or something and that's all they're shooting because they're doing a story about nose jobs. Then you go, 'why did I allow that to be a part of my life?' Show less «

I'm not an actor anymore. I really don't imagine I'll do that again. I'm just focused on my family a...Show more »

I'm not an actor anymore. I really don't imagine I'll do that again. I'm just focused on my family and just can't imagine anything that's going to pull me away from them right now. Show less «

"I believe people are entitled to a private life. I'm not sure where it's written that because you'r...Show more »

"I believe people are entitled to a private life. I'm not sure where it's written that because you're in the public eye you are required to expose your private business, with anybody. It is nobody's business, and it's interesting because obviously in today's marketplace people don't abide by that. There are no boundaries that people won't cross... We're in a bit of a "Wild West" thing with media, and, I think, it's just kind of like no holds barred - the Internet. You know, there are no criteria on the Internet... I've chosen a public life to express myself, not to tell what I do with my husband in bed, not to do, to talk about my parents and my family life. And I just think it's wrong, and obviously it's an insatiable appetite that people have for gossip and innuendo and things that are nobody's business. And there's a term that they use in this called "legitimate public concern". What is legitimate public concern? If an elected official has an illness, that's legitimate public concern because they're our president or elected official. We, we, we need to know that they're healthy because we want them to live a long life and protect, you know, the Constitution... but in the marketplace, in the world, I don't believe it's anybody's concern. And that's what I think." --comments made on The View, September 19, 2000. Show less «

[on Tony Curtis] I'm proud to be his daughter.

[on Tony Curtis] Because I didn't really have a relationship with him, he couldn't let me down. I ju...Show more »

[on Tony Curtis] Because I didn't really have a relationship with him, he couldn't let me down. I just happened to be one of the last people who hadn't been disappointed too many times. For years, I didn't know who Tony Curtis was as much as other people told me who he was. Show less «

About Madonna: "Holiday" came on the radio the other day and I remember where I was the first time I...Show more »

About Madonna: "Holiday" came on the radio the other day and I remember where I was the first time I heard it: in West L.A. on my way to aerobics class. (In Style magazine, September 2006). Show less «

Everything good in my life has happened when I wasn't expecting it.

My life is so filled that for me to accept acting work now means that I have to basically let somebo...Show more »

My life is so filled that for me to accept acting work now means that I have to basically let somebody else do the job that I want to do, which is raise my children. It's not that I'm retired, it's just that I no longer accept acting work. Show less «

I don't expect to hear from him on my birthday or Christmas. I see him when I see him. He's like a g...Show more »

I don't expect to hear from him on my birthday or Christmas. I see him when I see him. He's like a ghost - on her father, Tony Curtis. Show less «

[on Eddie Murphy] Despite all his success, Eddie acts like he's 22 years old. His life is cars and g...Show more »

[on Eddie Murphy] Despite all his success, Eddie acts like he's 22 years old. His life is cars and girls, girls and cars. More cars. More girls. Show less «

[giving the commencement address to graduating students of New York Film Academy's Los Angeles campu...Show more »

[giving the commencement address to graduating students of New York Film Academy's Los Angeles campus on June 8, 2013] This isn't about a show. It's about truth and integrity and honesty and communication, bravery and risk, and adjectives that should make you get out bed in the morning, excited to be what it is you choose to be. Show less «

[on her father Tony Curtis] He was not a father; he was not interested in being a father - and this ...Show more »

[on her father Tony Curtis] He was not a father; he was not interested in being a father - and this is not a slam against him - he did what he had to do from a financial standpoint, which was honorable of him to do, but he wasn't an involved father. Therefore, I look at him much more from the perspective of being a fan of him. I was more of a fan of his work, of his spirit, of his joie de vivre (joy of living)... My mother was never a diva, my father was bigger than life, who lived in Vegas! There was no bond, not at all. Except for the fact that I inherited genetically a part of him. Show less «

[on the death of Michael Jackson] The pain he suffered was from his birth, from his being and becomi...Show more »

[on the death of Michael Jackson] The pain he suffered was from his birth, from his being and becoming the commodity that then made him the King of Pop, he was in the spotlight since childhood. Show less «

In some circles, my Caesar salad is more famous than my body.

I thought, while they're up and firm [her breasts], why not shoot them once or twice. - on screen nu...Show more »

I thought, while they're up and firm [her breasts], why not shoot them once or twice. - on screen nudity. Show less «

Believe me, none of it works. - on cosmetic surgery.

For me, I just show up and do what I do. And for me it has to be real -- anything I do, I don't care...Show more »

For me, I just show up and do what I do. And for me it has to be real -- anything I do, I don't care what it is. On Halloween (1978), I can remember, John Carpenter's first and only real direction to me was, "I want people to believe this is a real person." All I care about is trying to make anything real -- and then because I'm brave I'll try anything. Show less «

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