cand she did! After more than 40 years of career, at 64, the legendary Jamie Lee Curtis takes home the first Oscar of his career as Best Supporting Actress. A well-deserved and almost “compensation” statuette given the amount of excellent performances in the past. Always snubbed by Academy jurors.
Excited and visibly movedthe actress of Everything Everywhere All At Once thanked the cast of the film, her husband Christopher Guest and their two daughters but also his famous parents long since disappeared.
Jamie Lee Curtis won Oscar 2023: Story of a nepo baby
Born in Santa Monica in 1958, little Jamie is the second child of one of the power couple most famous in Hollywood. The one formed by the actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. A thwarted love that arises between the two stars, at the dawn of the 50s, almost forced by their respective studios not to pronounce the fateful yes in order not to ruin their respective careers.
Jamie Lee Curtis holding the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. (Getty Images)
Tony Curtis at the time is in fact one of the most popular emerging actors (and sex symbols).While Janet rose to fame with her role as Meg in Little Women with Liz Taylor. In short, two very young interpreters on the launch pad.
After the wedding, the eldest daughter Kelly was born in 1956, the two starred together in important films such as The magician Houdini and two years later Jamie arrives. The couple will divorce in 1962, but not before entering the legend thanks to two epochal films. Tony in fact, in 1959, is the extraordinary showman, together with Jack Lemmon, of Some like it hot. While Janet, the following year, wins a place in immortality thanks to Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock.
Kelly Lee Curtis, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh and baby Jamie Lee (Getty Images)
Where, after only forty minutes of film, it comes slaughtered in the shower in one of the most famous scenes of the history of cinema. With his scream, he entered the collective imagination by right. And that daughter Jamie will “inherit” a few years later.
The success of the saga Halloween
Fascinated by the “golden” world of her parents, Jamie Lee still a teenager decides that his path will be the cinema. And after a few parts in TV series like Columbus, accepts the lead role in a film by the then unknown John Carpenter.
Future director of 1997: Escape from New York And The thing. We are in 1978 and Carpenter is ready to revolutionize the horror genre with his own Halloween – The night of the witches.
The actress becomes an instant scream queen and will return to the cinema several times to defeat the psychopathic Michael Myers once and for all. Among which twenty years after the debut in a very successful sequel and in 2022 with the last chapter of the new trilogy directed by David Gordon Green entitled Halloween Ends.
An icon of the 80s
Before Elle Macpherson, the original and inimitable “The Body” was without a doubt Jamie. Strong one athletic and perfectly sculpted physique from hours and hours of fitness, the actress finally becomes famous also to the general public (and highly desired) thanks to An armchair for two by John Landis. Where does he interpret the sexy prostitute with a heart of gold Ophelia.
But it is Perfectin the company of John Travolta, to make it iconic and certainly not for the qualities of the film. Set in the world of aerobics and bodybuilding, the film will even enter the top 100 of The Official Razzie Movie Guide but the scenes with Jamie Lee going wild in the gym they are still a camp classic today.
Jamie Lee Curtis in the 80s (Getty Images)
Versatile performer and able to transition effortlessly from drama to comedy, Jamie would thread through the decades to come one series of successes after another. From the hilarious comedy starring Kevin Kline A fish named Wanda to the action True Lies by James Cameron.
Where, once again, will forever mark the cinematic imagination thanks to a sexy ballet heart attack before the astonished eyes of an incredulous Arnold Schwarznegger.
The Lion for Lifetime Achievement and the exploit of Everything Everywhere All At Once
Married since 1984 to actor Christopher Guest, the new millennium is not starting in the best way for the actress. Not only films of little success but also the decision, in 2004, to withdraw from the scene so as not to see her body grow old in front of the camera.
Thankfully Jamie has second thoughts and finally, in 2018, return to success thanks to the reboot of Halloween to then snatch important roles as in Murder by Death – Knives Out.
In 2021 the definitive consecration with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival and finally the already iconic role of Deirdre Beaubeirdre in the film by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Jamie Lee Curtis and Michelle Yeoh in a scene from “Everything Everywhere All at Once”.
Grim official of the revenue agencyDeidre will play a key role (including a romantic parenthesis) in the multiverses that the protagonist Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) will explore. A layered role – scary and funny at the same time – which perfectly sums up the nearly fifty years of versatile career of the actress.
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