Curtis starring opposite Judy Greer and Andi Matichak who portray her daughter and granddaughter, respectively. We went out July 2nd for our first date, and he was leaving to go do Saturday Night Live for one year on August 8th. Did you have a sense of the craft that goes all the way back to the beginning? This is insane. Not only does Jamie Lee Curtis have a famous husband and famous parents, but she's also godmother to another Hollywood star in his own right: Jake Gyllenhaal. ", She's also a devotee of clutter-busting queen Marie Kondo, revealing in an Interview magazine chat with pal Sigourney Weaver that she had become "a deep believer" in Kondo, "who has revolutionized the art of getting rid of s**t." Referencing Kondo's mantra, Curtis joked, "That's the tattoo I'm going to get, 'Does it spark joy? I was popular because I was fun. Her mother, Sylvia (Nuchow), was a schoolteacher, and her father, Jerry, was a math Melissa McCarthy was born in Plainfield, Illinois, to Sandra and Michael McCarthy, and was raised on her family's corn and soybean farm. I had no discernible skills. I said, heres the deal: I will take a picture in my underwear, with no makeup, no hair, no fancy lights, with my body the way it is, if you promise you will print that, head to toe, on a separate page, and then print the picture of me fully glammed-out on the next page. Film Independent Spirit Awards: Winners List (Updating Live), Oscar-Nominated Filmmakers Join Festival Centering on Immigrants to Debut in Iowa Before Caucuses (Exclusive), Chelsea Clinton to Fundraise for Hillary in Los Angeles, Dustin Lance Black Debuts Prop. The actor on addiction, beauty standards, famous parents, writing kids books, and her encounters with Bette Davis. We opened Rolling Stone, the issue with Cyndi Lauper on the cover. I was insecure. "Like all child rearing, it is a journey. But maybe I'm just seeing things. 2023 Cond Nast. They live in a poshy apartment in Boston. She got her big break at acting in 1978 when she won the role of Laurie Strode in Halloween (1978). In fact, she clarified, her books aren't necessarily meant for children, but for families. As she recalled, she was vacationing in Idaho when he tracked her down and told her that director David Gordon Green whom he'd recently worked with wanted to discuss a role in an upcoming project, which turned out to be Laurie Strode in 2018's "Halloween.". While her dreams of becoming a cop ultimately took a back seat to her acting ambitions, she did get to experience life as a cop vicariously, at least when she was cast as a rookie NYPD officer in the 1990 drama "Blue Steel." You took acting classes. No, no. No, because when David Gordon Green and Danny McBride sent me the script, I saw exactly that they were honoring the fact that, when something that traumatic happens to you when youre seventeen, eighteen years old, it carries with it a tremendous effect. One of her most popular roles was that of neuroscientist Dr. Beverly Hofstadter in the sitcom " The Big Sigourney Weaver has created a host of memorable characters, both dramatic and comic, ranging from Ripley in ALIEN to Dian Fossey in GORILLAS IN THE MIST to Gwen/Tawny in GALAXY QUEST and most recently, 14-year-old Kiri in AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER. His father, James Donald McConaughey, was a Mississippi-born gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business. Her specialty:diapers. And I was surrounded by a lot of people in show business. The actor has been hotfooting it between London, New York and Los Angeles Im single. Done. Jamie Lee Curtis was born on November 22, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of legendary actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. My daughter, Annie, my son, Tom and my husband, Christopher offered me love and support last night and I am so lucky to call them mine. And my mothers life, in Merced, Californiajust both of them very poor, economically insecure. No. She has had a relatively lengthy career in both film and television. That might be a million-dollar idea for an applike, you start it at the beginning of a movie and then it will tell you, Look away now.. And I don't throw my 5 million books sold number at her at all.". The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. People need to witness what happened in the Proposition 8 trial, if for no other reason than to see inequality and discrimination unequivocally rejected in a court of law where truth and facts matter, Black said in a statement. 8, overturned in the west coast premiere reading of Dustin Lance Blacks 8, and helped raise more than $2 million for the cause. Rob Reiner directed the stage reading, and Bryan Singer, a film director, was the presenting sponsor of the event, which served as a fundraiser for American Foundation for Equal Rights. My friend Debra Hill, who wrote Halloween, was sitting on my couch in my apartment in West Hollywood, where I lived with Bette Davis. Theres an entire industry built on the fact that people like to be frightened, and I understand it. Her husband, actor and director Christopher Guest, holds a hereditary British peerage. Save Article. By Kayla Blanton Published: Oct 13, 2022. I recently did a cover story for Variety. And I turned her around. Eric Stonestreet was born on September 9, 1971 in Kansas City, Kansas, USA. As Jamie Lee Curtis wrote of her "aha! You could get work. I called my college and I said, Can I get credit for drama if I go to acting class for a month? And they said yes. She called his agent and requested Guest give her a call, but he never did. He walks up to the front row, where Penny Fuller was sitting, and he whispers in her ear, and Penny Fuller says, Oh, give me a break. Chris Guest.. During his early childhood, the A likable, boyish-looking actor with thick eyebrows and a friendly smile, Justin Long is a native of Connecticut.He was born and raised in Fairfield, the second of three sons. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The last time Curtis was photographed at a red carpet with members of her family was in 1998 at her Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony at which her husband and daughter were present. All by accident. She was wearing this head-to-toe raspberry-sorbet blouse and trouser, and I said, Thats Linda Drysdale. Shes a Realtor. This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast 2 1 1 comment Best Meanderus 5 yr. ago Don't be silly; Jamie Lee has a much nicer rack! That's my gift with a little 'g,' a baby 'g.'" He won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Deer Hunter (1978), and has been seen in mostly character roles, often Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. He is an actor, known for Bob Harper: Beginner's Weight Loss Transformation (2011), Bob Harper: Totally Ripped Core (2011) and Bob Harper: Ultimate Cardio Body (2011). Jamie Lee Curtis is Hollywood royalty in the truest sense, given that her parents are both iconic movie stars:Tony Curtis, known for such classic flicks as "Some Like It Hot"and "Sweet Smell of Success,"and Janet Leigh, whose eclectic screen credits range from Alfred Hitchcock's horror classic "Psycho" to the musical comedy "Bye Bye Birdie.". Im sure the fact that I was Janet Leigh and Tony Curtiss daughter, and that my mother had been in Psychoif youre going to choose between this one and this one, choose the one whose mother was in Psycho, because it will get some press for you. "It's a wonderful thing to play a woman like this cop,"she said of her role in an interview with film critic Roger Ebert. I was going to be a police officer, because I thought I would be good and you didnt need a lot of schooling for it. That was June 28th. Bette Davis lived in the building, along with other filmmakers. Oct 13, 2021. Its a good story. Having celebrated her 62nd birthday in November 2020, Curtis has been doing some of her most interesting acting work as a "woman of a certain age." ", Jamie Lee Curtis is all about neatness and order in her home, and it's something she takes seriously. "All throughout my books basically, there's a line of music for children, colors, silly things happening, and a line for the adults," she explained. Lynch married Lara Embry on May 31, 2010, in Sunderland, Massachusetts. Im jaw-dropped by what they are able to do. Photographs by Valerie Chiang for The New Yorker, When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Olds Memoir of Her Youth. Rian Johnson put so many references to old mystery films in this movie. In between, she's also shone opposite Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd in "Trading Places,"gone quip to quip with Monty Python's John Cleese in the classic comedy "A Fish Called Wanda," starred opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in the action blockbuster "True Lies,"and swapped bodies with teenage Lindsay Lohan in "Freaky Friday," to name just a few. Clearly, I had a leg up. And at the end of it I wrote three things, and I started to cry: When I was little, I didnt know what a family was. As a result, Curtis holds the official title of Baroness Haden-Guest. In the 1990s, Curtis starred in some notable films such as True Lies and Forever Young. But maybe I'm just seeing things. So elegant, swellegant, with some edge. . But it was a cautionary tale about this obsession with ourselves and narcissism and how we are teaching children that its all about them and what they look like. Or is it something thats ad hoc, that has developed over the years? WebJamie Lee Curtis may be one of Hollywood's most iconic scream queens, but her talents don't stop there. She began in the business at the age of 4 with commercial work and voice overs. It took a summer of acting in a children's theater group to convince Matthew Morrison that he wanted to become an actor. I am a great reader, but I dont retain that much. She was talking about her past. He did try to get out of his contract. Later that same year, she tweeted a pic of herself wearing a "World of Warcraft"monster mask for an incognito appearance at BlizzCon. However, Curtis explained that the two "are in many ways opposites," saying, "You are a New Yorker, you are an intellectual, you went to drama school. Youre fantastic. And I appreciate it. Its one of those good stories for people whove just been let go from their job. RELATED: Jamie Lee Curtis Meets Fan Who Survived a Home Invasion by Channeling Her Halloween Character. Heres my number. While promoting the movie, Curtis joked to WNBC, "I'm in no competition with Ms. Weaver. You know what? I am the anti-mystery girl. There are very photos of the actress whole family. A man named Chuck Bender [was there], and he said, Im managing actresses, and theyre looking for Nancy Drew at Universal; you should go up for it. And I went up and auditioned, and didnt get the job. If I had two, that was a miracle. Ever. My four-year-old daughter, Annie, was in her room. Curtis is revisiting her role as Laurie Strode 40 years after the original Halloween film came out in 1978. Did you resist it at any point? And then it was between me and one other woman, whose name I know but I will never say publicly. In fact, she's a big believer in recovery meetings, telling Variety she's attended them all over the world, wherever she happens to be working. Are you kidding me? And theres a flurry of people, and the wardrobe woman comes in with a selection of hats. Her father, Rodney, is a retired school teacher. The celebrated naturalist discusses the resilience of nature and what unites us all. I could never improvise comedically. Jamie Lee Curtis is sharing a special moment with her fans. I was making My Girl in Florida, and the makeup man had done Silence of the Lambs and it was out in theatres. When I was little, I didnt know who I was. He is an actor and producer, known for Modern Family (2009), Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) and Untraceable (2008). And two weeks later the audition for Halloween came up. At the premiere of "Warcraft" following year, she donned a whole new cosplay look, this time as an "Orc shaman"from "World of Warcraft. He grew up in the streets of Manhattan. He was raised in Stony Brook, and attended SUNY Cortland, where he played fullback on the football team Ricky Dene Gervais was born in a suburb of Reading, Berkshire, to Eva Sophia (House) and Lawrence Raymond Gervais, who was a hod carrier and labourer. But now I do. I realized, Oh, this is a book for children. I was cute. ", In 2017, Curtis marked National Adoption Day by tweeting a reference to her book. I was not pretty. He went to New York. Her mother, Margaret, is a judge Southern-bred Mary-Louise Parker was born on August 2, 1964 in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, the youngest of four children of Judge John Morgan Parker, and the former Caroline Louise Morell. When in Doubt, Play Insane: An Interview with Catherine OHara. Tell us what you think about this feature. I just dont think I ever took it that far. The co-star of Schitts Creek chats about her longtime collaboration with Eugene Levy and the one idea that Christopher Guest would not let her put on film. Then I auditioned for a program which is no longer in existence, which was a contract system. And it turns out Curtis is also good at keeping secrets: shes currently working on a project about her parents, but wont yet disclose any details. There was a period of time several years, in fact that Jamie Lee Curtis served as the spokeswoman for Activia yogurt, appearing in numerous television commercials extolling the product's purported ability to get sluggish bowels moving. '", According to Us Weekly, Curtis is longtime friends with the "Brokeback Mountain"star's parents,Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Foner, and is also godmother to their daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal. ", Her father, in fact, proved to be a textbook example of how not to succeed in matrimony, getting hitched and divorced four more timesafter his divorce from Leigh, his first wife. Once again Upon relocating to Los Angeles with his family, Baker was immediately cast in the Academy Award winning film L.A. And I gestured silently, with my hand, Hi, I called you. Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Ive built my career around exposing and uncovering the real story. The goal of8is to show the world that marriage equality is a basic constitutional right and that those who would deny this basic freedom from loving, committed couples have only vitriol and baseless hyperbole to fall back on. I could write a book on marriage called 'Don't Leave. During an appearance on"The Kingcast" podcast, Curtis revealed that she had deliberately slowed down her movie career during that period in order to stay close to home so she wouldn't have to be away from her husband and children for extended periods of time. I was devastated. In addition to her status as an actor, author, and video game aficionado, Jamie Lee Curtis is also an inventor. Plus: each Wednesday, exclusively for subscribers, the best books of the week. ", Curtis has been known to gush over her godchildren on social media, such as in one September 2021 Instagram post in which she honored both Gyllenhaal siblings. Lets talk about your beginnings as an actor. Shes from money. The only line Ive ever made up in my life ended up in Freaky Friday, where I told Lindsay [Lohan] to make good choices. So Carpenter, now convinced of Curtis's command of the craft, wrote her a role in The Fog (1980), a film that also memorably co-starred Curtis's famous mother, Psycho star Janet Leigh. "I put a sign up by the catering truck saying, 'Recovery meeting in my trailer,'"she said. There's no denying Jamie Lee Curtis has had an extraordinary Hollywood career, extending from her early roles in the 1970s to the powerhouse she is today. Lynch will play prominent opponent of marriage equality Maggie Gallagher, co-founder and former chairman of the National Organization for Marriage. Halfway down the aisle, Miss Davis reaches up and grabs my hand, which is pushing the wheelchair, and says, Take me back. The camera people are going, What are you doing? Because we stopped. All rights reserved. "Don't get divorced," she declared. Sebastian Stan was born on August 13, 1982, in Constanta, Romania. Hurt people hurt people, hurt people seek relief. Her family moved to Jillian Michaels was born on February 18, 1974 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She made her debut into Hollywood with the To revisit this article, visit My Profile, thenView saved stories. I cant make up anything. I auditioned many, many, many times. With his red eyes and stuff? As she told Variety, her brother Nicholas suffered a fatal heroin overdose when he was just 21. The cast of the reading featured Brad Pitt as Chief Judge Vaughn Walker, George Clooney and Martin Sheen as plaintiffs Jeff Zarrillo and Paul Katami, Jamie Lee Curtis and Christine Lahti as plaintiffs Sandi Stier and Kris Perry, and Cleve Jones as advocate Evan Wolfson. I mean, it's crazy enough as it is,"he acknowledged. One reason for that, she revealed in an interview with The New Yorker, was that her teeth had a grayish hue, due to her mother taking tetracycline during her pregnancy. "I did cocaine and freebased once with my dad," she revealed, noting "that was the only time I did that, and I did that with him. I get so much effing attention, which is just obscene, really. When young Jamie Lee Curtis was pondering her future career plans, following in the footsteps of her famous parents to become an actor wasn't actually at the top of her list. I did a wonderful movie with John Boorman called The Tailor of Panama, from a John le Carr novel, with Pierce Brosnan, myself, and Geoffrey Rush. He didnt call me. My teeth were gray. All of a sudden, I understood she had a past. As she explained during an appearance on NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me,"she dubbed her invention "Dipe and Wipes," explaining, "So when before you take off the diaper, you peel off the tape, reach in, pull out the wipes, undo the diaper, check out whatever's going on, take the wipes, boom, boom, boom, Bob's your uncle, done. Over the years, the stories youve been telling about your past with opiates and addiction have dovetailed with your thoughts on the exacting beauty standards in Hollywood. I would feel so embarrassed by that exposure of a secret, of a flaw of human frailty. And then I was doing an interview for Redbook about a book for children that I had written. ", Substance abuse was something that Jamie Lee Curtis grew up around. Justin Randall Timberlake was born on January 31, 1981, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Lynn (Bomar) and Randall Timberlake, whose own father was a Baptist minister. Thanks to Jamie Lee Curtis' early roles in such horror hits as "Halloween,""The Fog,""Prom Night,"and others, she was named the all-time greatest "Scream Queen" at the 2020 MTVMovie & TV Awards: Greatest of All Time, reported People. Im never going to pretend that I just got that on my own, like Im just a little girl from nowhere getting it. "Halloween" legend Jamie Lee Curtis rocked the Golden Globes red carpet and debuted a new look white hair! In fact, she actually patented another diaper design in 2016 that takes the concept even further. She has also been known to cosplay as her favorite characters. Eric Bana was born Eric Banadinovic on August 9, 1968, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. I'm not joking! 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Web"Halloween" legend Jamie Lee Curtis rocked the Golden Globes red carpet and debuted a new look white hair! She sold it that day, to HarperCollins, which was called Harper & Row at the time. It allowed me to earn money and stay home. I've been doing commercials for a very, very, very long time partially so I can ameliorate all of that distance from my family. I said to Debra, Oh, Im going to marry that guy. She said, I tried to put him in a movie. What do you think: Does Hilary's 'do look like a rif on Jamie's hairstyle? He was a Jewish boy, and he lived in the Jewish neighborhood. I moved to three high schools in four years. I was virtually one of the last people. She was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, but her family moved to Boston, Massachusetts, when she was four months old. We are doing all we can to help speed that process along., Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day. Bette Davis! They have one child. That told me so much about the hardship of his life. "My parents hated each other my whole life,"she said during an appearance on "The View," as detailed in the New York Daily News. . ", They are also just a little bit competitive with each other, something the women played up when they co-starred as rivals in the 2010 comedy "You Again." Fifty years ago, a Kansas family picked up a hitchhiker on their way to Iowa. Her first film was Private Parts (1997). The spoken language in her family is Russian, not Ukrainian.Her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher, her father, Mark Kunis, is a mechanical engineer, and she has an older brother named Michael. Was it Jamie Lee Curtis? People need to witness what happened in the Proposition 8 trial, if for no other reason than to see inequality and discrimination unequivocally rejected in a court of law where truth and facts matter, said Black, who won an Oscar for his screenplay for Milk. Another common denominator is that both Curtis and Weaver have worked with director James Cameron Curtis in "True Lies," and Weaver in "Aliens" and "Avatar. American Idol Contestant Sings To Grandfather Who Just Came Out As Gay, Sam Smith Ignites More Controversy With Full Perfect Magazine Spread, Jacob Elordi & Diego Calva To Play Lovers in New Film On Swift Horses, 15 Sexy Pics of Michael B Jordan From Creed III, She Is A Haunting Is So Much More Than Just A Gothic Queer Ghost Story. Geoffrey and John are both intellectuals. His mother, Mary Kathleen (McCabe), is a substitute school teacher originally from New Jersey. Youve been married to Christopher Guest for decades now. Stan studied at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and spent a year at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London.When he went Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson was born May 13, 1986 in London, England, to Richard Pattinson, a car dealer importing vintage cars, and Clare Pattinson (ne Charlton), who worked as a booker at a model agency. Visit the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration website or contact SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357). Trauma is a generational disease because it affects everybody in the family. At 63, Jamie Lee Curtis bares it all in a stunning new photoshoot. ", As she told NME, the reason for her antipathy for horror is that she scares way too easily. In December 2020, Jamie Lee Curtis celebrated 36 years of marriage with Christopher Guest, commemorating the occasion with a sweet Instagram post. Our conversation has been condensed and edited. After her breakout role in the 1970s, she continued to And I was fired, along with eleven of the thirteen actors. WebJamie Lee Curtis, Jane Lynch, Martin Sheen and some of Hollywoods hottest young actors will join George Clooney in the cast of Dustin Lance Black s play 8 for its one-night-only I didnt know that then, but he did. What happened on that drive became part of literary history. A friend of mine from Beverly Hills had a tennis court behind her house. Back in 2015, for example, she took to Twitter to share a photo of herself, husband Christopher Guest, and their children, all costumed as characters from the classic arcade game "Street Fighter." Webjamie lee is an actress who started her career as a model, but really made her name on the big screen this past season in the romantic comedy, House of Cards. Her parents divorced, and her mother later remarried to Paul Forste and had four more children, bringing the total to eight. (FYI for both film buffs and inquiring minds: Swank lopped off her locks for her role of Amelia Earhart in the upcoming movie Amelia.) All I can tell you is that my [characters] name was on every page of the script, and that it was thrilling to actually create something as a character. What happened is I went to college and became a little sister at a frat. This carried on when he entered prestigious Harvard University, acting out many pranks in his time, as well as becoming the president of the Harvard humor Nervous-looking lead and supporting actor of the American stage and films, with sandy colored hair, pale complexion and a somewhat nervous disposition. I cut my teeth in horror movies, where you dont have any timeyou just show up as the person, and you do the work, and you get a take or two, and then they have to move on. The 59-year-old actress posted a rare photograph of herself with her entire family her WebGlamorous Photos Of Young Jamie Lee Curtis Through The Years. I think hes cute. I was cast in the part that was opposite the part that my father had played in the movie. I sent it to my mother-in-laws best friend, a literary agent in New York City named Phyllis Wender. The pop of color, which I thought would be sensational, knowing that it was a Gothic house. We went to Hugos restaurant, in West Hollywood. He is the younger of two brothers. Theyve explored that through the relationships between mother, daughter, granddaughter., Related Video:The Trauma of Jamie Lee Curtis' Character, Laurie, In 'Halloween', Jamie Lee Curtis Meets Fan Who Survived a Home Invasion by Channeling Her, Justin Timberlake posts sweet birthday message for 'dream of a partner' Jessica Biel, Tom Sizemore, star of 'Saving Private Ryan,' 'Heat,' dies at 61 after brain aneurysm, Josh Hartnett is done talking about his break from Hollywood but ready to make fun of actors: 'We're the worst', Michael B. Jordan admits muscle gain for 'Creed' has been harder as he's gotten older, Billy Bush suggests Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes start their own show after ABC exit: 'They've got something that works'. Ok maybeconsidering the age differencenot twins, but sisters. After experiencing fertility struggles, the couple adopted daughter Annie. Thats when I found Vicodin, and the cycle of addiction began with that. . Jamie Lee Curtis is sharing a special moment with her fans. After that, she became famous for roles in movies like Trading Camryn grew up in Peoria, Illinois before moving to Long Beach California for middle school.