• Admitted that she became addicted to painkillers after having plastic surgery. (2004)
• Plans to phase out her acting career before movie directors discriminate against her because of her age. (November 24, 2004)
• Her book ?It?s Hard to Be Five: Learning How to Work My Control Panel? was inspired by her 5-year-old son?s frustration as a castle he built tumbled over. (2004)
• Curtis is freaking out over the ecstatic notices she and her new film, FREAKY FRIDAY, are getting -- The film has earned an estimated $33.2 million since opening Wednesday and most reviewers zero in on her still-sharp knack for comedy. (August 12, 2003)
• Has learned never to show her teeth when she smiles, because they used to be disgusting. The actress has revealed for the first time her teeth were permanently greenish-grey while she was growing up, because her mother Janet Leigh took the strong antibiotic tetracycline when she was pregnant, and Jamie learned to cover her less than gleaming gnashers.
• In ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI (1984), Curtis played Buckaroo's mother in a flashback scene that was cut from the film.
• Loves renting designer outfits - because then she can give them back. Jamie admits she hates hoarding clothes.
• Once the drug habit was behind her, things started to fall into place in Jamie's personal life as well. In 1983 she met Christopher Guest, whom she eventually married a little over a year later. Jamie describes her hubby as her kindred spirit.
• Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Tom Arnold, TRUE LIES (1994) was attacked by Arab Americans for its depiction of Middle Easterners as homicidal, religious zealots. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee was one of four groups to hold a protest at a Washington theater when the action film opened; a boycott of the movie was called, as well as a ban of its distribution in 54 Arab and Muslim countries. Despite the boycott and the intense controversy, the film was one of the top money-makers of 1994, earning more than $150 million.
• All of the actors of HALLOWEEN (1978) wore their own clothes, since there was no money for a costume department. Curtis went to J.C. Penney for Laurie Strode's wardrobe. She spent less than a hundred dollars for the entire set.
• Before getting a similar role in THE TAILOR OF PANAMA (2001), Curtis previously played a wife that didn't know her husband was involved in espionage in the movie TRUE LIES (1994).
• HALLOWEEN H20: 20 YEARS LATER (1998) was made after her suggestion.
• She did the helicopter stunt on her birthday.
• She had to wear a wig that matched her original hairstyle for HALLOWEEN II (1981)
• When Arnold Schwarzenegger rescues wife (Jamie Lee Curtis) from an airborne chopper (TRUE LIES), he grasps her by her arm just as the chopper heads out over the water. The woman you see dangling below the chopper skid is no body double, but Curtis doing her very own stunt work. At her insistence, director James Cameron agreed to let her perform this scary spectacle.
• While she was making TRADING PLACES (1983), she stayed in Marlene Dietrich's apartment (12E) at 993 Park Avenue in Manhattan. She'd been engaged to Dietrich's grandson, production designer J. Michael Riva.
• Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy at Golden Globe Awards for FREAKY FRIDAY (2004)
• Nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie at Emmy Awards for NICHOLAS' GIFT (1998)
• Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV at Golden Globe Awards for THE HEIDI CHRONICLES (1996)
• Nominated for Best Kiss at MTV Movie Awards for TRUE LIES (1995) - shared with Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Nominated for Best Female Performance at MTV Movie Awards for TRUE LIES (1995)
• Nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role at Screen Actors Guild Awards for TRUE LIES (1995)
• Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series - Comedy/Musical at Golden Globe Awards for Anything But Love (1992)
• Nominated for Best Actress at BAFTA Awards for A FISH CALLED WANDA (1989)
• Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical at Golden Globe Awards for A FISH CALLED WANDA (1989)
• Curtis is convinced her happy marriage to SPINAL TAP star Christopher Guest is all thanks to a chance meeting in a restaurant. (October 14, 2002)

The daughter of film stars Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis launched her film career as a "scream queen." After a nondescript supporting role on the TV series Operation Petticoat, Curtis rose to cult stardom playing the straight-laced teenage baby sitter imperiled by an unknown slasher in Halloween (1978). Upon appearing in the film's sequel and in such spookers as The Fog (1979) and Prom Night (1980), she seemed in danger of being limited to blood-splattered horror films. But Curtis wasn't about to be typed this early in the game: with a meaty secondary role as a prostitute -- featuring several well-publicized nude scenes -- in the big-budget comedy Trading Places (1983), she made the transition from imperiled teen type to knowing adult with nary a hitch.

Curtis didn't exactly have a string of box-office smashes after Trading Places, but she was always worth watching even when the films weren't. And when the good parts did come along, notably her roles in A Fish Called Wanda (1988) and My Girl (1991), she proved she was an actress of range and stature and not just another "movie star's kid." Taking a potentially humiliating role as the unknowing wife of a secret agent in the megabucks Arnold Schwarzenegger adventure True Lies (1994), Curtis delivered a sparkling performance, emerging as the only truly likable character in a loud and misogynistic melodrama. In 1997, she was reunited with the cast of A Fish Called Wanda (Kevin Kline, John Cleese, and Michael Palin) for Fierce Creatures, another comedy farce in the same vein as Wanda. Unfortunately, the film was largely disappointing; but, the following year, Curtis rebounded with a return to familiar territory in Halloween: H2O. The slasher flick, although less than a critical favorite, proved to be popular with audiences. In 1999, Curtis again ventured into the big-budget realm with the action thriller Virus, and had a supporting role in Daddy and Them, Billy Bob Thornton's sophomore writing/directorial effort. She could then be seen in Drowning Mona, a black comedy in which she played a waitress caught up in an affair with the husband of her town's most infamous dead woman.

The 2000's have brought Curtis several interesting opportunities, including a live performance at Paul McCartney's benefit for the controversial animal rights organization PETA in 2000, and a no-holds-barred photo shoot with More magazine in 2002 -- the then 44-year-old actress wanted to emphasize that even high-profile celebrities look "normal" without the help of a team of makeup artists and digital alterations. In 2001, Curtis starred alongside Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush and James Bond front man Pierce Brosnan in the espionage thriller The Tailor of Panama, and returned for a cameo appearance in Halloween: Resurrection, which will supposedly mark her final role in the Halloween franchise. Curtis would return to more family-oriented pictures in 2003's Freaky Friday with Lindsay Lohan, which featured the forty-something actress playing a punky teen whose spirit had magically been transferred to her mother's body.

Married to actor Christopher Guest since 1984, Curtis became a Baroness, Lady Haden-Guest, when her husband inherited the Barony in 1996.