Jamie Lee Curtis

It is common for an actor or actress to get the bug of acting to their descendants. However, it’s much harder to find a movie star whose parents are both actors, let alone one who has had the significance of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh . Let’s say, therefore, that Jamie Lee Curtis is truly privileged in this regard, and, from her success, it is clear that she has taken advantage of her genetic material. When in Psycho , her mother Janet screamed in terror in the shower at the knife that slashed the life out of her, little Jamie was two years old, but those screams must have stuck to her brain, because after eighteen years of lethargy woke up with unusual force inHalloween night , Jamie’s debut on the big screen and for which she was automatically nicknamed “the scream queen”.

But until that moment, Jamie’s life was not bed of roses. Born on November 22, 1958 in Los Angeles, she soon had to suffer the breakup of her parents, who divorced her when she was three years old. Her mother remarried and she moved with Jamie and her sister Kelly to a more secluded and quiet neighborhood. Her father sank into the hell of drugs and alcohol, and since then her relationship with her daughter has been unfriendly, although they eventually reconciled. In 1976, Jamie graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall School and subsequently decided to become an actress. But, despite the interest in following in her footsteps, the former Hitchcock star turned a deaf ear to her daughter, so Jamie had to enroll at the University of the Pacific. But that academic path was very short-lived. After the first semester, he dropped out of college and started auditioning. She got a brief appearance in the seriesCharlie’s Angels and Colombo , and later landed a larger role in Operation Petticoat (1977). It was then that he agreed to get paid $8,000 to work with one John Carpenter on a B-movie horror called Halloween (1978). There was nothing foreshadowing that this independent film, which had cost only $325,000, was going to become a classic and was going to raise a record figure of $47 million. Spectators were blown away by the vocal cords of Laurie Strode, Jamie Lee’s character, and the public’s affection was always with her.

With success behind him, he repeated the experience with Carpenter in his next film, The Fog (1980), and continued to swell his filmography with more horror films. The change in record did not take place until 1983, when, led by John Landis , he would accompany Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy in Rogues Walk the Game . The actress surprised audiences by proving herself to be an accomplished comedian. But, contrary to her, she in her private life suffered a comedown and experimented with cocaine. They were difficult times for her reign, but in 1984 the man who would bring her joy back arrived: actor Christopher Guest, whom he married that same year and with whom he currently lives happily with his two adopted children, Annie and Thomas. And over the next ten years, perhaps Jamie’s two best jobs would come. The actress caused laughter to fill the theaters in 1988 with A Fish Called Wanda , along with Kevin Kline , a delirious film to which she would go on to make a sequel – Ferocious Creatures , 1997–, albeit with much less success. The other great film is James Cameron ‘s Risky Lies (1994), where the actress marvelously combined action and comedy, and whose role won her the Golden Globe. Meanwhile, Jamie had already diversified her work into romances ( Perfect , 1985), thrillers (Blue Steel , 1990; The tailor of Panama , 2001) and melodramas ( My girl , 1991; Eternally young , 1992). And although in 2002 she could not avoid being Laurie Strode again in Halloween Resurrection (the actress earned 3 million dollars), comedy continues to be among her preferences, as shown by her latest role in the more than nice Put on my place . What’s more, her multifacetedness goes beyond interpretation: Jamie Lee Curtis is, in addition to an accomplished photographer, the author of five hugely successful children’s books in the United States.