Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis (born 22 November 1958; age 67) is an actress who played Control in Star Trek: Section 31.
She is the younger sister of Kelly Curtis and sister-in-law of Nicholas Guest. Curtis and Section 31 lead Michelle Yeoh co-starred in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), for which they won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress respectively.
Life and career[]
Curtis was born in Santa Monica to film star parents Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Her parents divorced when she was four years old.
She started her screen acting career at the age of eighteen, appearing in an episode of Quincy, M.E. (with Garry Walberg, Robert Ito, Stanley Kamel, Peter Virgo, Jr., and Dick Durock). She later made guest appearances in episodes of series such as Columbo (with Theodore Bikel, Kenneth Mars, and Samantha Eggar), Charlie's Angels (with Ray Wise, directed by Cliff Bole), The Love Boat, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (with Felix Silla).
In 1977-78, she co-starred as Lt. Barbara Duran in the first season of Operation Petticoat (with Morgan Jones, Walker Edmiston, Logan Ramsey, and Ted Gehring).
Curtis made her feature film debut as Laurie Strode in the 1978 horror film Halloween. Following the smash box office success of Halloween, she had become known as a "scream queen" and horror film icon. She starred in the horror films The Fog (1980, with Adrienne Barbeau), Prom Night (1980, with Antoinette Bower and Michele Scarabelli, directed by Paul Lynch), Terror Train (1980), Halloween II (1982), and lent her voice to Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982, with Martin Cassidy and Paddi Edwards).
She successfully escaped the "scream queen" typecasting and reinvented her career by co-starring in Trading Places (1983, with Robert Curtis Brown, Nicholas Guest, and Kelly Curtis) and A Fish Called Wanda (1988). She also starred in Grandview, U.S.A. (1984, with William Windom), Perfect (1985, with Stefan Gierasch, Kenneth Welsh, Chelsea Field, Rosalind Ingledew, Cristian Letelier, David Paymer and Ronnie Claire Edwards), and Blue Steel (1990, with Clancy Brown, Louise Fletcher, Mary Mara, Becky Ann Baker, Lauren Tom and Mike Starr).
From 1989 to 1992, Curtis starred in Anything but Love, co-starring Ann Magnuson, with Billy Van Zandt in a recurring role. Wendie Malick, Richard McGonagle, Gregory Itzin, Leslie Bevis, Jim Fitzpatrick, Andy Dick, Ron Canada, Lauren Tom, Lindsey Haun, Ric Sarabia, and Corbin Bernsen appeared in guest roles.
In the early 1990s, Curtis co-starred in My Girl (1991, with Ray Buktenica), Forever Young (1992, with Joe Morton, J.D. Cullum, Eric Pierpoint, Joel McKinnon Miller, Paul Ganus, Terrence Beasor, Nicolas Surovy, Amanda Foreman and Richard Ryder, written by J.J. Abrams), My Girl 2 (1994, with Gerrit Graham, Richard Beymer, Keone Young, and Wendy Schaal), and True Lies (1994, with Robert Herron, Loren Janes, and Ilona Wilson). For the latter, she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
She received another Golden Globe nomination for The Heidi Chronicles (1995, with Kim Cattrall and Sharon Lawrence). She received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Nicholas' Gift (1998). In this era, she also starred in the comedies House Arrest (1996, with Wallace Shawn, Ray Walston, Sheila McCarthy, and Daniel Roebuck) and Fierce Creatures (1997).
Curtis reprised the role of Laurie Strode in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998, with Beau Billingslea, Matt Winston, and Tom Kane) and Halloween: Resurrection (2002). She also starred in the films Virus (1999), Drowning Mona (2000), The Tailor of Panama (2001, with Mark Margolis and Ken Jenkins), Freaky Friday (2003, with Rosalind Chao and Willie Garson), for which she was again nominated for a Golden Globe Award, and Christmas with the Kranks (2004, with Bonita Friedericy, Matt Walsh, Kim Rhodes, David L. Lander, John Short and Mark Correy).
Following a brief hiatus from acting, Curtis returned in the film Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008, with Maury Sterling). She played the love interest of Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) in five episodes of the ninth season of NCIS (2012, with Tom Virtue, John Cothran, Jr., Ivo Nandi, Asif Ali, directed by James Whitmore, Jr.), and had a supporting role in the film Veronica Mars (2014, with Jerry O'Connell and Maury Sterling). She had a recurring role as Joan Day in six episodes of New Girl between 2012 and 2018.
She returned to the horror genre starring in Scream Queens (2015-16, with Kirstie Alley and Wallace Langham), and once again reprising her role as Laurie Strode in Halloween (2018, with Toby Huss) Halloween Kills (2021), and Halloween Ends (2022). She also co-starred in The Pages (2018) and appeared in Knives Out (2019, with Christopher Plummer and K Callan). In 2022, she guested in an episode of Reno 911! (with Carlos Alazraqui and Gary Anthony Williams).
In 2022, Curtis won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once, which starred Michelle Yeoh and also featured Harry Shum, Jr. in the cast. Curtis' cameo in Section 31 was a homage to her co-starring with Yeoh in this film.
Curtis then co-starred in Haunted Mansion (2023, with Winona Ryder), Borderlands (2024), and The Last Showgirl (2024). She also guested in seven episodes of the FX series The Bear between 2023 and 2025 (with Gillian Jacobs), and reprised her role as Tess Coleman in Freakier Friday (2025, with Rosalind Chao and June Diane Raphael). She then appeared in Ella McCay (2025).