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Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is an American actress, producer, and children's author. Known for her performances in the horror and slasher genres, she is regarded as a scream queen, in addition to roles in comedies. Curtis has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for an Emmy Award and a Grammy Award. The youngest daughter of actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, she made her television debut in a 1977 episode of the NBC drama series Quincy, M.E.. Curtis made her film debut and rose to prominence with her portrayal of Laurie Strode in John Carpenter's slasher film Halloween (1978). A critical and commercial success, the film established Curtis as a scream queen and led to starring roles in the horror films The Fog, Prom Night, Terror Train (all 1980), and Roadgames (1981). She would reprise the role in six of the Halloween sequels, concluding with Halloween Ends in 2022.Curtis's film work spans many genres outside of horror, including the comedies Trading Places (1983), for which she won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress, and A Fish Called Wanda (1988), for which she received a nomination for the BAFTA for Best Actress. Her role as a workout instructor in the film Perfect (1985) earned her a reputation as a sex symbol. She won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Helen Tasker in James Cameron's True Lies (1994). Her other notable film credits include Freaky Friday (2003), Knives Out (2019), and Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022). Her performance in the latter earned Curtis multiple accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. As of 2023, her films have grossed over $2.5 billion at the box office.Curtis received another Golden Globe for her portrayal of Hannah Miller on ABC's sitcom Anything but Love (1989–1992), and earned a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for the television film Nicholas' Gift (1998). She also starred in the Fox series Scream Queens (2015–2016), for which she received her seventh Golden Globe nomination. Curtis has written numerous children's books, including Today I Feel Silly, and Other Moods That Make My Day (1998), which made The New York Times's best-seller list. She is married to British-American filmmaker Christopher Guest, with whom she has two adopted children. Early life Jamie Lee Curtis was born in Santa Monica, California, on November 22, 1958, the daughter of actors Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; 1927–2004) and Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz; 1925–2010). 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. Career 1977–1979: Television debut and Halloween 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. Curtis was subsequently cast in several horror films, garnering her a reputation as a scream queen. 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). 1980–1982: Scream queen Her next film following Halloween was The Fog, which was also directed by Carpenter and produced by Hill. The film opened in February 1980 to mixed reviews but strong box office, starting Curtis as a horror film starlet. In the years since its release, the film has achieved critical reappraisal and developed a cult following. 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 genre. That year, Curtis also starred in Terror Train, which opened in October and met with negative reviews akin to Prom Night. Both films performed moderately well at the box office. Curtis's roles in the latter two films served a similar function to that of Strode—the main character whose friends are murdered and is practically the only protagonist to survive. Film critic Roger Ebert, who gave 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."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.... Discover the Jamie Lee Scott popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jamie Lee Scott books.

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  • Bad Vice synopsis, comments

    Bad Vice

    Jamie Lee Scott

    Now that Mimi Capurro and Charles Parks are coowners of Gotcha Detective Agency, and Mimi is single again, all should be going well, especially since they just landed a cushy new c...

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    The Knife Before Christmas

    Jamie Lee Scott

    Book 10 of the Gotcha Detective Agency Mysteries by USA Today bestselling author Jamie Lee ScottCharles and Mimi at it again. On the trail of another killer. Only this time the all...

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    Kronos

    Guy Adams

    'What manner of monster can wreak such damage? I only hope you know how it can be stopped.' The peace of an English village is shattered when a young girl withers before her friend...

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    Love is a Many Splintered Thing

    Jamie Lee Scott

    Nick and Mimi are happily married and settled into their new home. It all seems perfect, but is it? Somehow, just when you think life is perfect, something or someone comes along t...

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    Dirty, Sexy, Love

    Kylie Scott & Patricia Woitynek

    Wenn aus einer OnlineFreundschaft plötzlich so viel mehr wird ...Alex Parks würde am liebsten im Erdboden versinken. Da hat sie all ihren Mut zusammengenommen, um Eric Collins gege...

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    Keto Can Kill You

    Jamie Lee Scott

    Bonding with a child is hard bonding over a dead body is even harder. Willa Friday's daughter, Tomorrow (affectionately known as Tommy), is home from college for the fal...

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    Dressing a Billionaire

    Twist Roberts & Jamie Lee Scott

    this novel was previously published as a serialMaisy Tucker, Texas born and bred, former "stylist to the stars" in sunny southern California, last seen living in her car, wear...

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    Womanizer - Wenn ich dich liebe

    Katy Evans

    Ein Mann so heiß wie die Hölle Das Praktikum bei Carma Inc. ist für Olivia Roth die Chance ihres Lebens. Denn sie weiß, was sie will, wann sie es will und niemand kann sie davon a...

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    Claus Trophobic

    Jamie Lee Scott

    Ah, the smell of Christmas and murder are in the air. And the private investigators of Gotcha Detective Agency are on the case.Mimi has picked up a skip trace, and while staking ou...

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    Avocado Toasted

    Jamie Lee Scott

    Willa Friday has sworn off amateur sleuthing. She's focused on growing her food blog, that is until her assistant goes AWOL. Then her motherinlaw leaves an urgent message. Onc...

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    Naughty, Sexy, Love

    Kylie Scott & Cornelia Röser

    Wenn ein Bad Boy sein Herz verliert ... Eric Collins ist ein Bad Boy, wie er im Buche steht. Keine Frau landet zweimal in seinem Bett, und eine feste Beziehung kommt für ihn nicht...

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    Who Gives A Split

    Jamie Lee Scott

    BOOK 7 of the Gotcha Detective Agency Mysteriesby USA Today bestselling author Jamie Lee ScottWhat could possibly go wrong with Charles Parks attending a vintage wine auction ...

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    Textual Relations

    Jamie Lee Scott

    As a parent, you always want to know who your children are talking to online. But what if that cute 16yearold boy they're chatting with is actually a creepy 46yearold man? That's t...

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    Trespassers Will Be Prostituted.

    Jamie Lee Scott

    Book 9 of the Gotcha Detective Agency Mysteriesby USA Today bestselling author Jamie Lee ScottMimi Capurro has had it with tailing cheats and liars. She's ready for a vacation. But...

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    Mary Had A Little Scam

    Jamie Lee Scott

    Book 8 of the Gotcha Detective Agency Mysteries by USA Today bestselling author Jamie Lee ScottCharles has been gone for months, and Mimi's not feeling like being a private detecti...

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    American Justice

    Jamie Lee Scott

    American JusticeThe job of the U.S. Marshals includes: prisoner transport, witness protection, and fugitive apprehension.From Deputy Jared Wright:After losing my wife and child in ...

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    Angry Betty

    Jamie Lee Scott

    A female cop, a dead body in the trunk of a car, and drug cartels in a small Texas town.Kate Darby learned to hate cops at an early age, thanks to her drug addicted mom. No one wou...

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    Let Us Prey

    Jamie Lee Scott

    In the first book of Jamie Lee Scott's USA Today bestselling series, private detective Mimi Capurro takes on a bodyguard client only to end up investigating a murder.If you like yo...

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    Tainted Tiramisu

    Jamie Lee Scott

    Willa Friday has had her hands full with her daughter and her new assistant. Well, he's not so new, but new enough.She's been starting her days by driving into town for coffee and ...

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    Bang Switch

    Jamie Lee Scott

    Something stinks in Peculiar, Texas, and it's not just the dead cop Sergeant Zane Gwilly found shortly before midnight. Kate Darby misses patrolling the streets of Peculiar, T...

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    Electile Dysfunction

    Jamie Lee Scott

    BOOK 6 of the Gotcha Detective Agency Mysteriesby USA Today bestselling author Jamie Lee ScottThings are looking up for Mimi and Nick, that is until a handsome cowboy walks into Mi...

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    Check Six

    Jamie Lee Scott

    It's been almost a year since Corporal Kate Darby nearly died after being set up by a dirty cop. She's physically ready to get back to her old life, to start patrolling the st...

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    What A Meth

    Jamie Lee Scott

    Book 4 of the Gotcha Detective Agency Mysteries by USA Today bestselling author Jamie Lee ScottWhen Mimi accepts $500 from a sketchy client and takes on the case to follow an alleg...

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    Dirty Bite

    Jamie Lee Scott

    Kate's finally buried all the skeletons of her past, or so she thinks. Things have changed since Chief Benoit took the helm, and Kate's life is about to get turned around in a big ...

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    Death of a Sales Rep

    Jamie Lee Scott

    Book 3 of the Gotcha Detective Agency Mysteriesby USA Today bestselling author Jamie Lee ScottMimi and Charles take some time off from the detective agency to help Charles' friend,...