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Jamie Lee Haden-Guest, Baroness Haden-Guest (born November 22, 1958), universally known by her maiden title when Jamie Lee Curtis, is an American film actress born in Los Angeles, California. She is the girl of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. She is referred to as the "scream queen" for arguably her most memorable role, that of Laurie Strode in the Halloween series—in the first, besides when Halloween II, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later and Halloween: Resurrection. Jamie Lee Curtis has compiled the oeuvre which covers each nature and severity of genre, from either comedy to drama to horror.
She married a actor Christopher Guest in 1984, and became Lady Haden-Guest while her hubby inherited a Barony of Haden-Guest in 1996. Curtis & Guest keep around deuce adoptive toddlers, Annie & Thomas.
Recent successful film roles for Curtis develop involved Disney's Freaky Friday (2003), opposite Lindsay Lohan. A film was filmed at Palisades High School inside Pacific Palisades, CA., nearby where Curtis & Guest make their residence by using their toddlers.
Now, Curtis besides requires instance to trend lines various benevolent groups. Curtis was Guest of Honor at a Eleventh annual Gala affair & Fundraiser withinside 2003 for Women in Recovery, Inc., the Venice, CA-based non-not-for-profit offering the survive-inside, twelve-step program of rehabilitation for women in want. Past Honorees of this organization stand involved Sir Anthony Hopkins; the 2005 honoree was Angela Lansbury.
Her sister, Kelly Curtis, is also an actress.
Selected filmography
Halloween (1978)
The Fog (1980)
Prom Night (1980)
Halloween II (1981)
Roadgames (1981)
Trading Places (1983)
Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
Perfect (1985)
Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Dominick and Eugene (1988)
Blue Steel (1990)
My Girl (1991)
Forever Young (1992)
True Lies (1994)
House Arrest (1996)
Fierce Creatures (1997)
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
Drowning Mona (2000)
The Tailor of Panama (2001)
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Freaky Friday (2003)
Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
Brief salary history
Halloween (1978) $8,000
Halloween II (1981) $100,000
True Lies (1994) $1,550,000
Halloween: Resurrection (2002) $3,000,000
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