Jamie Lee Curtis was born on November 22, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of legendary actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. She got her big break at acting in 1978 when she won the role of Laurie Strode in La nuit des masques (1978). After that, she became famous for roles in movies like Un fauteuil pour deux (1983), Perfect (1985) and Un poisson nommé Wanda (1988). She starred in one of the biggest action films ever, True Lies - Le caméléon (1994), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for her performance. Curtis also appeared on Buck Rogers (1979), and starred in Meurtre d'une créature de rêve (1981) as the title role. Her first starring role was opposite Richard Lewis on the ABC situation comedy Anything But Love (1989). In 1998, she starred in Halloween, 20 ans après (1998) in which she reprised her role that made her famous back in 1978.
Her paternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants, while two of her maternal great-grandparents were Danish.
