Jamie Lee Curtis is a Hollywood legend. She’s had a decades-long career and earned a shelf full of accolades, including a BAFTA and two Golden Globes. But she had to wait until 2023 to get her first Oscar nomination. This year, she’s nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role in Everything Everywhere All at Once. The recognition puts her on track to be the first person in her famous family to win an Oscar. Both her parents were also nominated for Academy Awards, though neither won.
Jamie Lee Curtis’s father, Tony Curtis, was nominated for Best Actor for ‘The Defiant Ones’ Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier in ‘The Defiant Ones’ | Afp via Getty Images
Curtis, who was born in 1958, is the daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Her father started acting in the late 1940s, with roles in movies such as The Lady Gambles and City Across the River.
Jamie Lee Curtis’s father, Tony Curtis, was nominated for Best Actor for ‘The Defiant Ones’ Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier in ‘The Defiant Ones’ | Afp via Getty Images
Curtis, who was born in 1958, is the daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Her father started acting in the late 1940s, with roles in movies such as The Lady Gambles and City Across the River.
- 3/12/2023
- by Megan Elliott
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
He was beautiful as a young slave in Spartacus, yet Curtis's greatest role was in Some Like It Hot, dressed as a woman and wooing Marilyn Monroe
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Obituary: Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis, a tremendously witty and self-deprecating raconteur in his later years, used to tell a story about starting out in the movies. Playing the tiny role of "bellboy" in the 1949 Barbara Stanwyck film The Lady Gambles, he was in his bellhop costume, getting ready to come on for a rehearsal, when he saw the director picking his way towards him behind the set over the light cables. Curtis fluttered with excitement: what did he want? Give advice about the craft of acting? To discuss his motivation? His characterisation? To discuss a fascinating, subliminal frisson of erotic connection with Stanwyck? At last the director arrived, leant over and hissed:...
Blog: A career in clips
Gallery: A life in photographs
Obituary: Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis, a tremendously witty and self-deprecating raconteur in his later years, used to tell a story about starting out in the movies. Playing the tiny role of "bellboy" in the 1949 Barbara Stanwyck film The Lady Gambles, he was in his bellhop costume, getting ready to come on for a rehearsal, when he saw the director picking his way towards him behind the set over the light cables. Curtis fluttered with excitement: what did he want? Give advice about the craft of acting? To discuss his motivation? His characterisation? To discuss a fascinating, subliminal frisson of erotic connection with Stanwyck? At last the director arrived, leant over and hissed:...
- 10/1/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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