\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

$\"\"$ \n

To be fair, the fact that Jamie Lee Curtis is still highly relevant today is testament to her ability as an actress, as well as the magnetizing draw of her appeal. In a business where the old is so very quickly replaced by the new, where the slightest hint of departing too far from the \u2018IT\u2019 crowd is usually punished by being pushed out the back door into insignificance, Curtis has more than held her own.\n

What\u2019s more, the actress continues to add to her extensive list of plaudits. Decades after bursting onto the scene in John Carpenter\u2019s aforementioned\u00a0Halloween,\u00a0Curtis took home an Oscar for her performance in\u00a0Everything Everywhere All at Once.\n

\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
But just how did\u00a0Curtis\u00a0get her big break? What does her life look like today? How has she been so successful in managing to do what thousands of others have failed at in keeping herself in the spotlight? Well, read on to find out!\n
Jamie Lee Curtis\u2019 career\n
Perhaps a life of fame and fortune was always written in the stars for Jamie Lee Curtis. After all, she was born to a family that had deep roots in show business, with her mother, the late Janet Leigh, having played the iconic role in Alfred Hitcock\u2019s\u00a0Psycho. Her father Tony Curtis, meanwhile, was a star in his own right, having served as the leading man in a number of\u00a0Hollywood\u00a0produ\n
As fate would have it, her big break came when she was cast in\u00a0Halloween,\u00a0claiming a role that would change her life forever. Following the success of that flick, she would become known as the \u201cScream Queen\u201d, while a venture into comedy courtesy of 1983\u2019s\u00a0Trading Places\u00a0showed her versatility.\n
Over the years, Jamie Lee Curtis has graced our screens in all manner of roles, taking home countless awards including a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in\u00a0Everything Everywhere All At Once.\n
Personal Life\n
Outside of the film industry, the 66-year-old has also proven herself adept as an author of children\u2019s books, penning titles such as\u00a0Today I Feel Silly\u00a0and\u00a0Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born.\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$ \n
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA \u2013 MARCH 12: Jamie Lee Curtis, winner of Best Actress in a Supporting Role award for \u2018Everything Everywhere All at Once\u2019 poses in the press room during the 95th Annual Academy Awards at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth\/Getty Images)\n
The actress has been married to Christopher Guest since 1984 \u2013 the pair have two adopted children. Curtis has been a stanch advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, with her youngest daughter, Ruby Guest, coming out as transgender in 2021.\n
In 2022, Curtis officiated Ruby\u2019s wedding with her partner, Kynthia, dressed as a character from the\u00a0World of Warcraft\u00a0video game. The actress is also an advocate of addiction recovery, having achieved 25 years of sobriety.\n
Appearance today\n
It should go without saying that we all age over time, that we all experience changes to our appearance \u2013 whether we wish it or not. And it\u2019s no different for the biggest stars, even if many of them try to delay the ravages of time with surgeries and treatments.\n
Jamie Lee Curtis might no longer be the fresh-faced brunette who bravely battled Michael Myers in\u00a0the original\u00a0Halloween,\u00a0but neither is she trying to desperately cling to her youth by presenting an image of herself on social media that\u2019s at odds with how she really looks.\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Speaking at the\u00a0Radically Reframing Aging Summit\u00a0in 2022, she said: \u201cThis word \u2018anti-aging\u2019 has to be struck. I am pro-aging. I want to age with intelligence, grace, dignity, verve, and energy.\u201d\n
After turning 65, Curtis took to Instagram to post a selfie that showed off her legs. Her confident stance and clothing choice \u2014 a pair of black shorts \u2014 symbolized more than a fashion statement; they represented Curtis\u2019 commitment to promoting body positivity at every age.\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you ask me, it beggars belief that Jamie Lee Curtis is 66 years old. Just what is up with all our favorite celebrities having the audacity to actually age? … \n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4478,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions\/4478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}