Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode
On a cold Halloween night in Haddonfield, Illinois in 1963, six year old Michael Myers brutally murdered his teenage sister after having sex with her boyfriend. Michael is then locked inside Smith's Grove Warren County Sanitarium where he is placed under the care of Dr. Sam Loomis who is the only one who sees the pure evil within the soul of Michael. In October 1978, Michael escapes from the sanitarium. After witnessing the escape, Dr. Loomis heads back to Haddonfield where he knows Michael will kill again on Halloween night. Michael begins stalking three teenagers, Laurie Strode and her friends Annie and Lynda. With the help of the town sheriff, Loomis hunts for Michael and hopes to put an end to his grisly murder spree.
Biography for Jamie Lee Curtis
Nickname
The Scream Queen
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Jamie Lee Curtis was born to legendary parents 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 very famous for roles in movies like Trading Places (1983), Perfect (1985), and Fish Called Wanda, A (1988). She soon starred in one of the biggest action films ever, True Lies (1994) in which she won a Golden Globe for her performance. In 1998 she starred in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) in which she reprised her role that made her famous back in 1978.
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Trivia
During the 1980s she was engaged to Hollywood production designer J. Michael Riva, the grandson of screen legend Marlene Dietrich. Her godfather was MCA-Universal CEO Lew Wasserman.
Saw her [now] husband Christopher Guest on front of magazine and she gave her telephone number to his agent.
Adopted two children: Annie b.1987 and Thomas b.1996.
Daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
She played the aerobic class instructor in Jermaine Jackson's "(The Closest Thing To) Perfect" music video.
Became Baroness, Lady Haden-Guest, when her husband inherited the Barony in 1996.
(1983) Dated english rocker Adam Ant for 9 months.
Sister of actress Kelly Curtis (I)
Graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall private school in 1976.
It was on her suggestion that Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) was made.
Her deleted scene from Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The (1984) is included on the MGM Special Edition DVD, 2001, as the "Alternate Opening".
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Personal quotes
"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 insaitable appetite that people have for gossip and inuendo 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, Sept. 19, 2000.
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Salary
Halloween II (1981) $100,000
Halloween (1978) $8,000
Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia: A consistently engaging performer, Curtis managed to escape typecasting in teen slasher movies to carve a reputation as a first-class comedienne. Neither as pretty nor as voluptuous as her mom, actress Janet Leigh, the attractive, intelligent Curtis has also shown considerable range and technical skill as a dramatic actress, particularly in some of her 1980s films. She first attracted attention in the cast of the TV sitcom "Operation Petticoat" (1977-78), based on the 1959 movie that starred her father, Tony Curtis, but she came to prominence in a string of low- and medium-budget horror films, beginning with John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) and followed by Prom Night, Terror Train, The Fog (all 1980), and Halloween II (1981). She showed promise in a more demanding role, that of doomed Playboy model Dorothy Stratten in the made-for-TV Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981).
Curtis' "breakout" film, and first comedy success, was the Dan Aykroyd-Eddie Murphy starrer Trading Places (1983); her turn as a good-natured prostitute raised eyebrows and won her leading-lady status. Roles in the modest Love Letters (1983) and Grandview, U.S.A (1984) boosted her stock, although the box-office fizzle of Perfect (1985), in which she played an aerobics instructor to John Travolta's investigative reporter, was a temporary setback. A Man in Love (1987) gave Curtis a plum part as the wife of Peter Coyote thrown over for glamorous Greta Scacchi, but it was her starring role in A Fish Called Wanda (1988) that cemented her reputation as a gifted comic actress. She worked hard, to little avail, in the silly cop thriller Blue Steel (1990), and was positively ubiquitous in 1991, appearing in Queens Logic, Dreamland, My Girl and Criminals on the big screen, and costarring in the comedy series "Anything But Love" (1989-92). She also wrote a children's book. 1994 films include My Girl 2, Mother's Boys (as a psycho!), and True Lies. She is married to Christopher Guest.
Halloween: The Homecoming (2002) .... Laurie Strode
True Lies 2 (2002) .... Helen Tasker
Doin' the Splits (2001)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys (2001) (V) (voice) .... Queen Camilla
Boogeymen (2001) (V) (archive footage) .... Laurie Strode (Halloween)
AFI's 100 Years, 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001) (TV) .... Herself
Daddy and Them (2001)
Tailor of Panama, The (2001) .... Louisa Pendel
"Pigs Next Door" (2000) TV Series
Celebrity Profile: Jennifer Love Hewitt (2000) (TV) .... Herself
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song (2000) (voice) .... Narrator
Drowning Mona (2000) .... Rona Mace
'Halloween' Unmasked 2000 (1999) (V) .... Herself
Virus: Ghost in the Machine (1999) (V) .... Herself
Virus (1999) .... Kit Foster
... aka Virus (1999) (France)
Unmasking the Horror (1998) (V) .... Herself/Laurie Strode
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) .... Laurie Strode/Keri Tate
... aka Halloween 7 (1998) (USA)
... aka Halloween: H20 (1998) (USA: promotional title)
... aka Halloween: H20 (20 Years Later) (1998) (USA: promotional title)
Nicholas' Gift (1998) (TV) .... Maggie Green
... aka Dono di Nicholas, Il (1998) (TV) (Italy)
Homegrown (1998) .... Sierra Kazan
Fierce Creatures (1997) .... Willa Weston
Ellen's Energy Adventure (1996) (uncredited) .... Dr. Judy Peterson
House Arrest (1996/I) .... Janet Beindorf
Heidi Chronicles, The (1995) (TV) .... Heidi Holland
67th Annual Academy Awards, The (1995) (TV) (uncredited) .... Presenter - Scientific and Techical Awards
My Girl 2 (1994) .... Shelly Sultenfuss
True Lies (1994) .... Helen Tasker
Mother's Boys (1993) .... Jude Madigan
Forever Young (1992) .... Claire Cooper
My Girl (1991) .... Shelly DeVoto
Queens Logic (1991) .... Grace
Blue Steel (1990) .... Megan Turner
"Anything But Love" (1989) TV Series .... Hannah Miller
Dominick and Eugene (1988) .... Jennifer Reston
... aka Nicky and Gino (1988)
Fish Called Wanda, A (1988) .... Wanda
Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987) .... Lynn Taylor
... aka Silent Voice (1987)
Un homme amoureux (1987) .... Susan Elliott
... aka Man in Love, A (1987) (USA)
... aka Uomo innamorato, Un (1987) (Italy)
Welcome Home (1986)
As Summers Die (1986) (TV) .... Whitsey Loftin
Annie Oakley (1985) (TV) .... Annie Oakley
... aka Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends: Annie Oakley (1985) (TV)
Perfect (1985) .... Jessie
Grandview, U.S.A. (1984) .... Michelle 'Mike' Cody
Terror in the Aisles (1984) (archive footage) .... Laurie Stroude (segment "Halloween I & II")
... aka Time for Terror (1984) (Europe: English title: video title)
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The (1984) (deleted scene) .... Sandra Banzai
... aka Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, The (1984) (USA: short title)
Love Letters (1983/I) .... Anna Winter
... aka My Love Letters (1983)
... aka Passion Play (1983)
Trading Places (1983) .... Ophelia
"Callahan" (1982) TV Series .... Bartlett, Rachel
Coming Soon (1982) (V) .... Herself
Money on the Side (1982) (TV) .... Michelle Jamison
Road Games (1981) .... Pamela
Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981) (TV) .... Dorothy Stratten
Halloween II (1981) .... Laurie Strode
... aka Halloween II: The Horror Continues (1981) (USA)
... aka Halloween II: The Nightmare Isn't Over! (1981) (USA: video box title)
Escape from New York (1981) (voice) .... Opening narration/Computer
... aka John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981) (USA: complete title)
She's in the Army Now (1981) (TV) .... Rita Jennings
Terror Train (1980) .... Alana Maxwell
... aka Monstre du train, Le (1980) (Canada: French title)
... aka Train of Terror (1980)
Prom Night (1980) .... Kim Hammond
Fog, The (1980) .... Elizabeth Solley
... aka John Carpenter's The Fog (1980) (USA: complete title)
Halloween (1978) .... Laurie Strode
... aka John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) (USA: complete title)
"Operation Petticoat" (1977) TV Series .... Lieut. Barbara Duran (1977-78)
Operation Petticoat (1977) (TV) .... Lieutenant Barbara Duran
... aka Life in the Pink (1977) (TV) (USA: reissue title)
Columbo: Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case, The (1977) (TV) .... Waitress
Other Jamie Lee Curtis pages on Women of Horror:
The Fog
Halloween H20
Halloween Resurrection