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JAMIE Lee Curtis has entertained the public for decades, bringing comedy, laughter, and horror from the big screen into living rooms.

Her career has spanned nearly five decades and has led her to receive numerous Golden Globe Awards and nominations.

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Who is Jamie Lee Curtis?

Jamie Lee Curtis, 63, was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and had never considered acting.

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She is the daughter of famed Hollywood actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.

As a young girl, Curtis was a cheerleader at the all-girls Westlake School in Los Angeles – later renamed the Harvard-Westlake School after merging with its sister school, Harvard School for Boys in 1991.

Following her primary education, Curtis attended the University of the Pacific in California, where she considered majoring in social work but quickly realized her passion for acting.

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Curtis landed her first role in 1978 in the horror film, Halloween which led her to similar roles in Prom Night (1980), The Fog (1980), and Halloween II (1981).

These roles contributed to her being dubbed the Scream Queen.

She landed her first Golden Globe Award in 1990 for her role in the sitcom Anything But Love with comedian Richard Lewis and earned her second Golden Globe Award in 1994 for her role in True Lies alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Curtis also starred alongside Lindsay Lohan in Freaky Friday (2003), the TV series Scream Queens (2015-2016), and Halloween Kills (2021).

Does Jamie Lee Curtis have children?

Jamie Lee Curtis has two children with her screenwriter husband, Christopher Guest.

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They were married in 1984 and adopted their two daughters in the late 1980s and 1990s.

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Their eldest daughter, Annie, is a 35-year-old dance instructor at MNR Dance Factory in Los Angeles, and their youngest, Ruby, is a 25-year-old video game editor who came out as trans in October 2021.

Speaking to People, Ruby said, “It was intimidating” to tell her mom that she was trans, but she “wasn’t worried.”

She added, “They had been so accepting of me my entire life.”

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Is Jamie Lee Curtis a published author?

Jamie Lee Curtis is primarily known for her prolific acting career, but she is also a published writer.

She penned her first children’s book, When I Was Little: A Four-Year Old’s Memoir of Her Youth, in 1993 and ten other children’s books followed.

Her eleventh and most recent book, I Am Me, came out in 2016 and revolved around the anxiety, the fear, and the excitement of being an immigrant.

It was her daughter Annie who, at only the age of four, made her realize she could write children’s books.

“My four-year-old said something funny to me one day,” Curtis told Education and Career News. “She walked into my office, all petulant and sweet, and announced that ‘when I was little I used to wear diapers, but now I use the potty.’

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“The idea that she had thought about her life in the past when she was really just four, made me smile. I wrote on a piece of paper: ‘When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old’s Memoir of Her Youth.’

“I then wrote a list of things that she used to not be able to do and now could. By the end, I realized I had written a book.”

Her subsequent children’s books continued to be inspired by Annie and Ruby and they all provide a hopeful message to young readers.

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“Someone once said that my books were ‘self-help books for children,'” Curtis said.

“That was certainly not my intent, but I think if you’ve lived life at all, you pick up life lessons along the way. And if you’re an artist, you utilize those life lessons in the work you do.”

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