Jamie Lee Curtis Through the Years: From ‘Halloween’ to ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ and Beyond
usmagazine.comThe scream queen! Jamie Lee Curtis has had a long and successful career, starting off in iconic horror films before venturing into hit comedies.The Fierce Creatures actress was born in Santa Monica, California, to actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis.
Jamie went on to study law at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California — however, she dropped out after one semester to pursue an acting career.“I wasn’t originally going to be an actress.
I was going to be a police officer,” the Knives Out star told Vulture in November 2022. “I thought I’d be a really good cop.”Jamie’s Hollywood debut came in the 1978 horror film Halloween, which went on to become a major success and put the actress’ name on the map as a horror icon.
After following in her mother’s own Scream Queen footsteps – Leigh famously starred as Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho in 1960 – Jamie reprised the role of Laurie at various points throughout the Halloween franchise from 1981 to 2022.Though the My Girl actress said goodbye to her beloved character in 2022’s Halloween Ends, she looked at her final face-off with longtime nemesis Michael Myers as a “thank you.”“That role gave me my life.
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