After a career that has been filled with some really great films, it appears that Jamie Lee Curtis has decided to quit acting. She first appeared on screen in the seminal horror flick Halloween and quickly became the generation's "Scream Queen" by starring in Halloween 2, Prom Night, The Fog, Terror Train and Roadgames.
She's given three Oscar nomination-worthy performances in her career all in three different decades and all in three completely different movies. First in 1988 with A Fish Called Wanda. She then won the Golden Globe and received a Screen Actor's Guild nomination for her work in 1994's True Lies appearing alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger (who can forget that stripping scene?) and lastly just 3 years ago in the out-of-the-blue awesomeness that was the Disney remake of Freaky Friday. Unfortunately for Curtis, her career never became HUGE due to her tendancy to star in, let's be honest, shit films. Just in the last 6 years alone she's had Virus, Drowning Mona and Christmas with the Kranks. A look over her IMDb filmography shows a whole lot of movies you've probably never even heard of.
But, alas, Jamie has decided to call it quits. Hopefully there will be a role in the future that she just really wants and she will return to us. Until then, so long Jamie Lee Curtis. It's been a pleasure.
**btw, why didn't Jamie ever work on one of her husband's films. She is married to Christopher Guests and she would seem like a natural fit into something like For Your Consideration**
2 comments:
That's sad about Jamie Lee. I'm pretty pissed that she didn't get nommed for True Lies. OK, actually I haven't seen it. But it seems like it really should've happened, unlike the two best actress bids where she never had a chance. Oh well.
It's true, she really SHOULD be in her husband's films. The only explanation I can think of for why she hasn't is that maybe they decided to separate business and pleasure.
In any case, it seems the cinema has lost her to that odd career taken up by many aging actresses: children's book author.
Yeah, I don't get the children's book thing. Why do they all think they can write children's books?
(I'm sure Curtis is a really good author, but I'm selfish and want her to be acting!)
I sort of love True Lies more than it warrants, mostly due to Jamie Lee. She was smashing.
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