Biography
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. She has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA, two Golden Globes, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as nominations for an Emmy and a Grammy. She came to prominence with the ABC sitcom Operation Petticoat (1977–1978). She made her fea...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Ella McCay
2025
An idealistic young politician juggles familial issues and a challenging work life while preparing to take over the job of her mentor, the state’s lon...

Freakier Friday
2025
as Tess Coleman
Years after Tess and Anna endured an identity crisis, Anna now has a daughter of her own and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the myriad ch...

Freakier Friday
2025
Producer
Years after Tess and Anna endured an identity crisis, Anna now has a daughter of her own and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the myriad ch...

I Was Born This Way
2025
Executive Producer
Surviving childhood abuse during his upbringing in Baltimore, Archbishop Carl Bean forged a path to New York and Hollywood to do the one thing he knew...

Star Trek: Section 31
2025
as Control
Emperor Philippa Georgiou joins a secret division of Starfleet tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets and faces the sins of her past.

The Last Showgirl
2024
as Annette
When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will soon close, a glamorous showgirl must reconcile with the decisions...

Burn Out
2024
Executive Producer
An assistant will do anything to get his presentation in front of his boss… even set himself on fire.

Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
2024
as Self
Since 1987, the Disney Legends Awards program has honored individuals for the significant impact they've had on the Disney legacy. See the 2024 honore...

Borderlands
2024
as Tannis
Returning to her home planet, an infamous bounty hunter forms an unexpected alliance with a team of unlikely heroes. Together, they battle monsters an...

Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés
2024
as Self
Andrés invites Jamie Lee Curtis, Bryan Cranston and O’Shea Jackson Jr., over for food and conversation. His guests join him in the kitchen, getting th...

Haunted Mansion
2023
as Madame Leota
A woman and her son enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.

Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom
2022
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
A portrait of the American actress Jamie Lee Curtis, daughter of the legendary actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, mythical scream queen and brilliant...

Halloween Ends
2022
as Laurie
Four years after the events of Halloween in 2018, Laurie has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man is ...

Halloween Ends
2022
Executive Producer
Four years after the events of Halloween in 2018, Laurie has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man is ...

Halloween in Hollywood
2022
as Self
Chris Hardwick hosts this epic night celebrating all things Halloween, including interviews with Jamie Lee Curtis, Jason Blum and David Gordon about t...

Return to Sender
2022
Producer
A woman gets involved in a delivery scam that grows increasingly strange.

Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at Everything Everywhere All at Once, with interviews from the directors/writers, cast and crew.

Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022
Thanks
A behind-the-scenes look at Everything Everywhere All at Once, with interviews from the directors/writers, cast and crew.

Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022
as Deirdre Beaubeirdre
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could...

Halloween Kills
2021
as Laurie Strode
Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last enc...

Halloween Kills
2021
Executive Producer
Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last enc...

2 Timers
2021
Executive Producer
A showdown between an ambitious actress, her shady business partner, and a Hollywood diva, turns into a 3-way double-cross.

Senior Entourage
2021
as Jamie
Senior Entourage is a wild, wacky "Mockumentary" comedy featuring a zany, multi-racial cast ranging in age from 9 to 90. It's "Seinfeld for seniors" s...

In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020
as Jamie Lee Curtis
Follow Elvira as she searches for the Sanderson Sisters, interviewing various figures who claim to have encountered or been influenced by them, includ...

Best Summer Ever
2020
Executive Producer
A high school football player is shocked to discover that the new girl in school is the same girl he fell in love with at a summer dance camp.

Knives Out
2019
as Linda Drysdale
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit B...

An Acceptable Loss
2019
as Rachel Burke
Former top U.S. security adviser Elizabeth "Libby" Lamm is threatened by associates from her dark past including Rachel Burke a steely, commanding pol...

Halloween
2018
as Laurie Strode
Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree ...

Halloween
2018
Executive Producer
Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree ...

Hondros
2018
Co-Executive Producer
HONDROS follows the life and career of famous war photographer Chris Hondros by exploring the poignant and often surprising stories behind this award-...

78/52
2017
as Self
The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 78/52 tells the...

Spare Parts
2015
as Principal
With the help of their high school's newest teacher, four Hispanic students form a robotics club. Although they have no experience, the youths set the...

The Horrors of Hamilton High: The Making of Prom Night
2014
as Self (archive footage)
An all-new documentary of the making of Prom Night.

Veronica Mars
2014
as Gayle Buckley
Years after walking away from her past as a teenage private eye, Veronica Mars gets pulled back to her hometown - just in time for her high school reu...

The Night She Came Home!!
2013
as Self
A short documentary, done by John Marsh and Kelly Curtis, explores Curtis’ relationship to the Halloween franchise. Called “The Night She Came Home”, ...

Blood Is Thicker Than Water: The Making of Halloween H20
2013
as Self
Producer Malek Akkad, producer Paul Freeman, writer Robert Zappia, cinematographer Daryn Okada, editor Patrick Lussier, composer John Ottman, stunt co...

My Time with Terror with Jamie Lee Curtis
2013
as herself
An exclusive interview featured on Shout! Factory's DVD & Blu-ray releases for The Fog (1980)

Driving Lessons
2012
as Laurie Strode (archive footage)
In John Carpenter's 1978 classic HALLOWEEN, Michael Myers was suddenly able to drive a car after having sat in a sanitarium staring at the wall since ...

The Nightmare Isn't Over! The Making of Halloween II
2012
as Laurie Strode (archive footage)
Retrospective documentary about the making of "Halloween II."
Beauty CULTure
2012
as Self
Beauty Culture investigates our obsession with beauty and the influence of photographic representations on female body image. Film subjects hail from ...

Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
2012
as Self
Tony Curtis, the man who influenced Elvis Presley and James Dean. A sex symbol, a matinee idol, a powerful and magnetic actor, Tony Curtis was the ori...

8
2012
as Sandy Stier
Live chronicle of the landmark federal trial of California's Prop. 8 using the actual court transcripts and first-hand interviews.

Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1
2011
as Self (archive footage)
The naked floodgates burst open in the Saucy 70s and the 80s continued the trend. Welcome to the 80s, Jerry Falwell, Reagan conservatism, VCRs, pay tv...

The Little Engine That Could
2011
as Beverly (voice)
Featuring an all-star cast, the timeless story comes to life in this all-new, feature-length film filled with fun and adventure!

Halloween: The Inside Story
2010
as Self
This feature-length documentary takes a look at one of the most successful film franchises of all time as it goes behind the scenes of John Carpenter’...

You Again
2010
as Gail
History -- make that high school -- may repeat itself when Marni learns that Joanna, the mean girl from her past, is set to be her sister-in-law. Befo...

Video Games Live: Level 2
2010
as Self
Video Games Live is an immersive concert event featuring music from the most popular video games of all time. Top orchestras & choirs perform along wi...

Dirt! The Movie
2009
as Self
A look at man's relationship with Dirt. Dirt has given us food, shelter, fuel, medicine, ceramics, flowers, cosmetics and color --everything needed fo...

Beverly Hills Chihuahua
2008
as Aunt Viv
A pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua named Chloe who, while on vacation in Mexico with her owner Viv's niece, Rachel, gets lost and must rely on her fri...

Not Quite Hollywood
2008
as Self
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock...

Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
2006
as Self
Follow the evolution of the 'Halloween' movies over the past twenty-five years. It examines why the films are so popular and revisits many of the ori...

The Kid & I
2005
as Jamie Lee Curtis
Aaron Roman is a teenager with cerebral palsy who dreams of starring in a big-time action movie. When his father grants Aaron his wish for his eightee...

Christmas with the Kranks
2004
as Nora Krank
When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank decide to book an island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and just skip ...

John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
2004
as Self
Chronicles the work of cult director John Carpenter through interviews with him and his associates, with emphases on the earlier work.

Freaky Friday
2003
as Tess Coleman
Mother and daughter bicker over everything -- what Anna wears, whom she likes and what she wants to do when she's older. In turn, Anna detests Tess's ...

Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
2003
as Self / Laurie Strode
Using original interviews with director John Carpenter, stars Jamie Lee Curtis and P.J. Soles, and crew members, 'Halloween': A Cut Above the Rest unv...

Halloween: Resurrection
2002
as Laurie Strode
Reality programmers at DangerTainment select a group of thrill-seeking teenagers to spend one night in the childhood home of serial killer Michael Mye...

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002
as Narrator (voice)
The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary Clooney, Roger Corman, Deanna Durbin and many more.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001
as Queen Camilla (voice)
When the mysterious Toy Taker grabs all of Santa's toys, it looks like the children will miss out on Christmas. But everyone's favorite reindeer, Rudo...

Daddy and Them
2001
as Elaine Bowen
Ruby and her husband Claude are a working-class couple who live in suburban Arkansas. As crazy as they are for each other, their relationship is far f...

The Tailor of Panama
2001
as Louisa Pendel
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a ne...

The American Nightmare
2000
as Self
An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they reflected contemporary society.

Drowning Mona
2000
as Rona Mace
The recently deceased Mona Dearly was many things: an abusive wife, a domineering mother, a loud-mouthed neighbor and a violent malcontent. So when he...

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999
as Self (uncredited)
A TV special celebrating the 25th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Before a celebrity audience, many of the former cast members and guest hosts ret...

Halloween: Unmasked
1999
as Self
A retrospective documentary on the making of the movie "Halloween," featuring exclusive interviews with director John Carpenter, producer Debra Hill, ...

Virus
1999
as Kelly Foster
When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be des...

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998
as Laurie Strode / Keri Tate
Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael ...

Nicholas’ Gift
1998
as Maggie Green
Fact based drama about an American couple on vacation in Italy in 1994 with their two children who are attacked and shot by highway bandits. Shortly t...

Homegrown
1998
as Sierra Kahan
Three laborers on a Northern California marijuana plantation become increasingly paranoid when they learn that their boss has been murdered. They know...

The Haunted History of Halloween
1997
as Self
The origins of Halloween are explored in this engrossing program on the subject. A ghoulish array of costumes, make up, and decoration descend on comm...

Fierce Creatures
1997
as Willa Weston
Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep ...

House Arrest
1996
as Janet Beindorf
High-schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Janet and Ned, are acting childishly when they decide to divorce...

Escape from L.A.
1996
as Female Narrator (uncredited)
Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken. His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device.

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996
as Self
A documentary reflecting on women in film and the entertainment industry through the ages led and hosted by some of its most beloved female icons.
The Heidi Chronicles
1995
as Heidi Holland
Unusual relationships, a feminist awakening and a career in art history mark a baby boomer's life, ages 16 through 46.

True Lies
1994
as Helen Tasker
A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with ...

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
as Self (archive footage)
Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! was a 1994 TV special that aired on ABC to celebrate Sesame Street's 25th anniversary....

My Girl 2
1994
as Shelly Sultenfuss
Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an a...

Cindy Sherman: Nobody's Here But Me
1994
as Narrator (voice)
New York based artist, Cindy Sherman, is famous for her photographs of women in which she is not only the photographer, but also the subject. She has ...

Mother's Boys
1993
as Judith 'Jude' Madigan
Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fall...

The Return of Spinal Tap
1992
as Jamie Lee Curtis
Spinal Tap is back in a whole new feature-length rockumentary. Go behind the scenes and find out where the somewhat-less-than-fab three are now -- and...

Forever Young
1992
as Claire Cooper
A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that ...

My Girl
1991
as Shelly DeVoto
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and jo...

Queens Logic
1991
as Grace
When childhood friends Al, Dennis and Eliot get together for Ray's wedding, which may or may not happen, they end up on a roller-coaster ride through ...

Blue Steel
1990
as Officer Megan Turner
Rookie cop Megan Turner orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires, killing him instantly. When someone lifts the as...

A Fish Called Wanda
1988
as Wanda Gershwitz
While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises he’s not the only one after the collection.
John Cleese's First Farewell Performance
1988
as Self
A feature length documentary on the making of A Fish Called Wanda

Dominick and Eugene
1988
as Jennifer Reston
Dominick and Eugene are twins, but Dominick is a little bit slow due do an accident in his youth. They live together, with Dominick working as garbage...

Amazing Grace and Chuck
1987
as Lynn Taylor
Average American boy Chuck Murdock goes on a school outing to a nuclear weapons facility, where he learns about the destructive power that sits at the...

A Man in Love
1987
as Susan Elliott
An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later th...

As Summers Die
1986
as Whitsey Loftin
Set in a sleepy Southern Louisiana town in 1959, a lawyer, searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being threate...

Annie Oakley
1985
as Annie Oakley
Young Phoebe Mosey (Jamie Lee Curtis) defies expectations and proves herself to become "Little Miss Sure Shot" Annie Oakley, the legendary sharpshoote...

Perfect
1985
as Jessie Wilson
A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight.

Grandview, U.S.A.
1984
as Michelle 'Mike' Cody
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to...

Trading Places
1983
as Ophelia
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

Love Letters
1983
as Anna Winter
After discovering a box of old love letters sent to her mother by a mysterious stranger, Anna, a young radio deejay, begins a torrid affair with a mar...

Halloween III: Season of the Witch
1982
as Curfew Announcer / Telephone Operator (voice) (uncredited)
A terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked, and at the hospital, babbles and clutches the year's most popular Halloween costume, an eerie pumpk...

Money on the Side
1982
as Michelle Jamison
Three middle-class housewives who are having money problems join a prostitution ring.

Callahan
1982
as Rachel Bartlett
Indiana Jones spoof, an unsold pilot. Callahan and his new assistant try to solve the world's problems through science.

Coming Soon
1982
as Herself
Director John Landis has combed the vaults of Universal Studios, Hollywood's preeminent producer of horror films and edited them into this retrospecti...

Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story
1981
as Dorothy Stratten
The life and tragic death of the "Playboy" centerfold model/actress Dorothy Stratten.

Halloween II
1981
as Laurie Strode
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie t...

Escape from New York
1981
as Narrator / Prison Recording Voice (uncredited)
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US pre...

She's in the Army Now
1981
as Pvt. Rita Jennings
Akin to Private Benjamin, this comedy deals with the tough life of female army recruits going through basic training. Through their training they come...

Roadgames
1981
as Pamela 'Hitch' Rushworth
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian ...

Terror Train
1980
as Alana Maxwell
A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve ...

Prom Night
1980
as Kimberly Hammond
At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years prior.

The Fog
1980
as Elizabeth Solley
Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. ...

Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog'
1980
as Self
Short documentary. Interviews with the cast & crew of 'The Fog'

Halloween
1978
as Laurie
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddon...

Murder at the World Series
1977
Dialogue Coach
A disturbed young man threatens violence at the World Series after failing to make the Houston Astros.
Spychosis
N/A
as Jamie
When a dormant spy, exposed by the Wikileaks controversy, is suddenly being hunted by assassins he seeks help from an emergency room nurse to remove a...
Hollywood Trailblazer: The Debra Hill Story
N/A
Debra Hill's documentary tells the story of her multifaceted life and of inspiring filmmakers around the world, and her legacy as a creative producer,...
Activia Kiss It Better Edit
N/A
Activia is a brand of yogurt owned by Groupe Danone (Dannon in the United States) and introduced in France in 1987. As of 2013, Activia is present in ...

The Honey Wars
N/A
as (voice)
Follows Hope, a young girl with a secret ability to see the invisible threads that connect the magical world to our own. Recently uprooted by the loss...
Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter
N/A
as Self
A documentary about the life of 90s fitness icon Susan Powter.
Sender
N/A
A woman experiences an e-commerce package delivery scam that becomes so personal and disturbing that she becomes hellbent on discovering the identity ...

The Lost Bus
N/A
Producer
Bus driver Kevin McKay and school teacher Mary Ludwig navigate a bus full of children through a deadly wildfire as the town of Paradise is caught in t...
Hollywood Trailblazer: The Debra Hill Story
N/A
Executive Producer
Debra Hill's documentary tells the story of her multifaceted life and of inspiring filmmakers around the world, and her legacy as a creative producer,...

Mother Nature
N/A
Writer
The New Mexico town of Catch Creek relies on the Cobalt Corporation for its jobs and prosperity. But Nova Terrell, as a child, witnessed her father di...
Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter
N/A
Executive Producer
A documentary about the life of 90s fitness icon Susan Powter.
Sender
N/A
Producer
A woman experiences an e-commerce package delivery scam that becomes so personal and disturbing that she becomes hellbent on discovering the identity ...