Jamie Lee Curtis

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Jamie Lee Curtis at Comic-Con , 2015

Jamie Lee Curtis , Baroness Haden-Guest (born November 22, 1958 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American actress and author of children's books .

Life

Jamie Lee Curtis is the daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh . She is the sister of Kelly Curtis and the half-sister of Alexandra and Allegra Curtis from Tony Curtis' marriage to Christine Kaufmann . Since 1984 she has been married to the actor Christopher Guest (5th Baron Haden-Guest ). You have adopted two children. Curtis has borne the courtesy title of Lady Haden-Guest since the death of her father-in-law in 1996 . She is also the godmother of actor Jake Gyllenhaal .

She had her first television appearance in the episode Death Symphony of the television series Columbo as a waitress. She received her first major role in a television series in 1977 in Company Petticoat as' Lt. Barbara Duran '. Her first film role was in the first part of John Carpenter's Halloween series ; there she played the main role of 'Laurie Strode' and then became world famous as the Scream Queen . In numerous horror films of the late 1970s and early 1980s, she can be seen as the pursued heroine who utters high-pitched screams of terror.

Jamie Lee (right) with mother Janet Leigh and sister Kelly Curtis in 1979

In the Canadian horror film Prom Night , she received the next leading role; at the side of Leslie Nielsen , she also embodied the Scream Queen. In the same year she was nominated for best actress at the Saturn Awards . She was also in the directorial debut of Roger Spottiswoode , the 1979 film Monster in the Night Express , in which David Copperfield can be seen, in front of the camera. In 1980 she starred again in The Fog as 'Elizabeth Solley', directed by John Carpenter, who co- wrote the script with Debra Hill . A year later saw Curtis as a performer alongside Stacy Keach in Truck Driver , directed by Richard Franklin . For the sequel to Halloween, Debra Hill and John Carpenter wrote the script, which was implemented by Rick Rosenthal with Curtis as 'Laurie Strode'.

In 1983 Curtis managed to break away from the image of the "scream queen" and establish herself as a comedian and character actress. In the comedy The Soldiers of Fortune , she was seen as the prostitute 'Ophelia'. For her supporting role she received the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA Award) for best supporting actress. The film grossed US $ 90 million on a budget of US $ 15 million and was one of the most successful films of the year (ranked 4). Until the mid-1990s she was seen in numerous hits, she was one of the most successful female Hollywood stars of the time. In the 1980s it was temporarily nicknamed "The Body".

In 1985 she played an aerobics instructor on the side of John Travolta in the drama Perfect . In addition to Ray Liotta (as Eugene Luciano) and Tom Hulce (as Dominick Luciano) Curtis was seen in the film Dominick & Eugene . In 1988 she starred alongside John Cleese and Kevin Kline , in the comedy A Fish Named Wanda in the eponymous role of the jewel thief Wanda, who turns men's heads and manipulates them for their own ends. The film became a worldwide hit and a comedy classic. Curtis was nominated for Best Actress at the Globes and BAFTA Awards for her acting performance .

She also starred in My Girl and the sequel My Girl 2 . In the second part she took on the role of the stepmother of Anna Chlumsky and was the wife of Dan Aykroyd ; Macaulay Culkin also starred in the first film . Curtis was seen as a wealthy woman alongside Kevin Bacon and John Malkovich in the 1991 film Born in Queens . In Forever Young by Steve Miner she got the lead role as 'Claire Cooper', mother of 'Nat Cooper' (played by Elijah Wood ), who brings test pilot 'Daniel McCormick' (played by Mel Gibson ) out of a 50-year-old slumber.

As a paralegal and wife of agent 'Harry Tasker' (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger ), she appeared in True Lies by James Cameron . For this supporting role in the action comedy, she received a nomination at the Screen Actors Guild Awards and was awarded a Golden Globe, a Saturn and an American Comedy Award.

With John Cleese and Kevin Kline she was in front of the camera again in 1996, as 'Willa Weston' in the film Wilde Kreaturen , which contains numerous allusions to A Fish Called Wanda , but which could not build on the success of the previous film. Twenty years after her breakthrough, she played 'Laurie Strode' again on Halloween H20 , who now lives under a new name in California as the school principal and mother of 'John Strode' ( Josh Hartnett ). There she is confronted with her brother, the serial killer 'Michael Myers', whom she defeats at the end of the film. For this she received a nomination at the Saturn Awards and as "Favorite Actress in a Horror Movie" at the Blockbuster Awards ; LL Cool J , Michelle Williams , Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, and Curtis' mother, Janet Leigh, also contributed to Steve Miner's work. The films Virus - Ship of No Return with William Baldwin and Donald Sutherland and Homegrown by Stephen Gyllenhaal followed in the same year .

In the crime comedy The Mona Case by Nick Gomez , she starred alongside Danny DeVito , Casey Affleck , Bette Midler and Neve Campbell . In 2001 Curtis played 'Louisa Pendel', the wife of the tailor 'Harold Pendel' ( Geoffrey Rush ) and mother of 'Mark' ( Daniel Radcliffe ), who met the British spy 'Andrew Osnard' ( Pierce Brosnan ) in the film The Tailor of Panama befriended by John Boorman . In the same year Daddy and Them followed, in which she played a married lawyer couple with Ben Affleck ; at their side you saw Laura Dern , Billy Bob Thornton and Kelly Preston . In 2002 she played the role of 'Laurie Strode' again in the Halloween sequel Halloween: Resurrection , in which she is thrown from the roof of a sanatorium by her still living brother 'Michael Myers' and dies in the process.

With Lindsay Lohan she got a leading role as 'Tess Coleman' in the comedy film Freaky Friday directed by Mark Waters . For this she was again nominated for best leading actress at the Saturn Awards, the Golden Globe Awards and the Satellite Awards. In 2004 she played the wife of Tim Allen , who wanted to skip Christmas in the movie Crazy Christmas because her daughter 'Blair' ( Julie Gonzalo ) joined the Peace Corps and is therefore not at home. Dan Aykroyd and M. Emmet Walsh can be seen as neighbors in the film. In the comedy The Kid & I , she appears with Arnold Schwarzenegger at the end of the film to surprise Tom Arnold as 'Bill Williams', who starred in True Lies with her and Schwarzenegger . In 2008 Curtis played 'Aunt Vivian Ashe', the dog owner of Chihuahua lady 'Chloe' (voiced by Drew Barrymore ) in a supporting role, directed by Raja Gosnell . In Andy Fickman's film Du already again she embodies the mother of Kristen Bell and rival of Sigourney Weaver , who in turn plays the aunt of Odette Yustman (daughter's arch rival). After 2010, more television productions followed. She was seen in New Girl as the mother of Zooey Deschanel .

In 2018 she was seen again in the role of 'Laurie Strode' in the new part of the Halloween series.

In 1987, Curtis filed a patent for a disposable diaper with a built-in pocket with the U.S. Patent Office , which later received patent number 4,753,647. The waterproof pocket on the front contained wet wipes that could be removed and used with one hand. Curtis refused to market their invention until companies started selling biodegradable diapers. The patent expired on February 20, 2007, and the invention has been available to everyone since then.

In addition to her work as an actress, Curtis has also been successful as an author of children's books since 1993.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

bibliography

Together with the illustrator Laura Cornell, Curtis published a number of children's books.

  • 1993: When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of Her Youth
  • 1996: Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born
  • 1998: Today I Feel Silly: And Other Moods That Make My Day
  • 2000: Where Do Balloons Go? An uplifting mystery
  • 2002: I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem (# 1 on the New York Times bestseller list )
  • 2004: It's Hard to Be Five: Learning How to Work My Control Panel (# 2 on the New York Times bestseller list )
  • 2006: Is There Really A Human Race? (# 1 on the New York Times bestseller list )
  • 2008: Big Words For Little People

Web links

Commons : Jamie Lee Curtis  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
  2. ↑ Box Office Mojo
  3. ↑ Hollywood star Jamie Lee Curtis: Withdrawal from the movie business. In: Spiegel Online . November 23, 2004
  4. ↑ https://ew.com/article/1994/03/18/jamie-lee-curtis-scream-queen-returns/
  5. ^ Curtis; Jamie L. (Los Angeles, CA): United States Patent: 4,753,647 . United States Patent and Trademark Office . February 20, 1987. Retrieved April 1, 2008: “A disposable infant garment which takes the form of a diaper including, on its outer side, a sealed, but openable, moisture-proof pocket which contains one or more clean-up wipers . "
  6. ^ Acton, Johnny: The Ideas Companion: Crafty Copyrights, Tricky Trademarks and Peerless Patents (A Think Book) . Robson Books (Anova) , 2005, ISBN 1-86105-835-7 .
  7. ↑ Jamie Lee Curtis Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. In: labiennale.org. June 30, 2021, accessed June 30, 2021 .
  8. ^ Books & Products. Retrieved on February 4, 2015 (eng).
personal data
SURNAME Curtis, Jamie Lee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Curtis, Jamie Lee, Baroness Haden-Guest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and author of children's books
BIRTH DATE November 22, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , United States