Jamie Lee Curtis

format_quote I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

stars  Godmother of Jake Gyllenhaal.

stars  Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1992

stars  Two of her earliest roles make reference to roles played by her father. She appeared in the television series "Operation Petticoat" (1977), based on the movie that had starred her father, Tony Curtis. While on hiatus from that show, she was cast in Halloween (1978), in which the detective "Sam Loomis" was named after a character from Psycho (1960), which had starred her mother, Janet Leigh. Also, her father imitated Cary Grant's voice for his role in Some Like It Hot (1959), and worked with Grant himself in Operation Petticoat (1959). Grant's birth name, Archie Leach, was used as the name for John Cleese's character in A Fish Called Wanda (1988).

stars  Adopted two children: Annie (b. December 1986) and Thomas (b. March 1996).

stars  Ex-stepdaughter of Christine Kaufmann, Andrea Savio and Leslie Curtis.