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Jamie Lee Curtis
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Daughter of famous Hollywood couple Tony Curtis & Janet Leigh who began her career in slasher flicks (“Halloween”) before proving she was a talented comedienne in films such as “Trading Places” (1983), “A Fish Called Wanda” (1988), “True Lies” (1994), “Fierce Creatures” (1997) & “Freaky Friday” (2003).
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Jamie Lee Curtis Fact File : |
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Birth Name: Jamie Lee Curtis
Date Of Birth: 22nd November 1958 Place Of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Nickname: The Scream Queen
Trademark : Short Hair
Height: 5’ 9”
Spouse: Christopher Guest (1984 - Present)
Big Screen Film Debut: “Halloween” (1978)
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Jamie Lee Curtis’ Top 10 Movies on DVD : |
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Road Games [DVD](1981) DVD Intense road thriller featuring Stacy Keach as an American truck driver working Down Under who joins forces with hitchhiker Jamie Lee Curtis to try to capture a serial killer who has been terrorizing the area. Grant Page, Marion Edward also star. 100 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; audio commentary; featurette; storyboards; biographies; photo gallery; poster gallery; DVD-ROM content; theatrical trailer.
Trading Places [DVD](1983) DVD Conniving street bum Eddie Murphy and snobby, rich executive Dan Aykroyd wind up switching lives because of a "heredity vs. environment" bet between corporate bigwig brothers Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche...and hilarious shenanigans are bound to erupt. The comic cast includes Jamie Lee Curtis, Denholm Elliott; directed by John Landis. 116 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Surround, French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English.
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Perfect [DVD](1985) DVD Enter the world of exercise and health, where men and women strain and sweat to reach "perfection." John Travolta stars as the reporter looking for the "inside story" on the fitness craze, while falling for aerobics instructor Jamie Lee Curtis. Co-stars Laraine Newman and Jann Wenner. 120 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital Surround; Subtitles: English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish; theatrical trailers; interactive menus; scene access.
A Fish Called Wanda [DVD](1988) DVD Writer/co-star John Cleese and director Charles Crichton ("The Lavender Hill Mob") blend their comic styles in a frantically funny farce. Stodgy barrister Cleese gets involved with a gang of inept robbers (femme fatale Jamie Lee Curtis, sublimely stupid sadist Kevin Kline, and stuttering icthyophile Michael Palin) who needs him to recover a stolen fortune. 108 min. Widescreen and Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French; theatrical trailer.
Blue Steel [DVD](1990) DVD Novice New York cop Jamie Lee Curtis gets involved with a handsome commodities trader. Little does she know that he's a serial killer who carves her name into bullets and uses her gun to kill innocent people. Ron Silver and Clancy Brown also star in this super-charged, stylish thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow ("Near Dark"). 102 min. Standard and Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Surround; French Dolby Surround; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish.
My Girl [DVD](1991) DVD You'll find sunshine on a cloudy day with this bittersweet charmer focusing on the delicate relationship between a motherless 10-year-old girl (Anna Chlumsky) and a young boy (Macaulay Culkin). At the same time their friendship grows, so does the romance between the girl's mortician father (Dan Aykroyd) and the free-spirited morgue beautician (Jamie Lee Curtis). Also stars Griffin Dunne, Richard Masur. 102 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital Surround, French Dolby Digital Surround, Spanish Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; theatrical trailer.
Forever Young [DVD](1992) DVD Romantic fantasy stars Mel Gibson as a daredevil Air Force pilot who is cryogenically frozen in 1939 after his girlfriend enters a coma. He reawakens in 1992 and becomes involved in the lives of a fatherless boy and his feisty mother (Jamie Lee Curtis). With Elijah Wood, Isabel Glasser, George Wendt. 102 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital Surround stereo; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; interactive menus; production notes; scene access; theatrical trailer.
True Lies [DVD](1994) DVD Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a master spy who can defuse nuclear weapons and speak six languages, although his wife (Jamie Lee Curtis) thinks he's a staid computer salesman. Soon the couple is caught in an adventure filled with danger and excitement. Can it save their troubled marriage? James Cameron's stunt-filled thriller co-stars Tom Arnold, Tia Carrere and Charlton Heston. 141 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English Dolby 5.1, Dolby Surround, French; Subtitles: English, Spanish; theatrical trailer; scene access.
Fierce Creatures [DVD](1997) DVD The stars of "A Fish Called Wanda" reunite for a wacky comedy set in and around a London zoo that's acquired by a multinational corporation headed by Australian magnate Kevin Kline. As the mogul's inept son (also played by Kline) and executive Jamie Lee Curtis work on their own plans for the zoo, new manager John Cleese tries to make it profitable by replacing cuddly critters with vicious and dangerous animals. Michael Palin, Carey Lowell also star. 94 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital Surround, Spanish Dolby Digital Surround; Subtitles: Spanish.
Freaky Friday [DVD](2003) DVD In this reworking of the 1977 Disney favorite, stressed-out psychiatrist and widow Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) switches bodies--thanks to a magical fortune cookie--with guitar-playing teenage daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan). The now 15-year-old Tess gets to relive high school life and help her daughter's crush on a handsome "older" student, while a grown-up Anna has to deal with housework, a career and her mother's impending marriage. With Mark Harmon, Harold Gould, Michael Murray. 97 min.
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