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Jamie Lee Curtis is a film actress with starring roles in such acclaimed films as Freaky Friday, True Lies, Trading Places and A Fish Called Wanda.



In television, Ms. Curtis co-starred opposite Richard Lewis in the sitcom Anything But Love, as well as the title role in TNT’s adaptation of Wendy Wasserstein’s play, The Heidi Chronicles, and the CBS telefilm, Nicholas’ Gift.



Ms. Curtis is also an author of best-selling children’s books with net sales of all editions exceeding 4.6 million units. In addition to her most recent and seventh book, the New York Times Bestseller, Is There Really A Human Race?, she is the author of It’s Hard To Be Five, Learning How To Work My Control Panel, I’m Gonna Like Me, Letting Off A Little Self Esteem, Where Do Balloons Go? An Uplifting Mystery, Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day, Tell Me Again About The Night I Was Born, and When I Was Little, A Four-Year-Old’s Memoir of Her Youth.



Ms. Curtis is also an AIDS activist and has a deep and active connection to many children’s charities including, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles as well as being the official spokesperson for CAAF (The Children Affected by Aids Foundation) and on whose Executive Advisory Board she is a serving member and The Starlight/Starbright Foundation. Ms. Curtis is a recovering alcoholic/addict and is honored to serve on the Board of Directors of CASA (The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University). She is the mother of Annie, age 20 and Thomas, age 11 and has been married for 22 years to actor/director Christopher Guest.

Blog Entries by Jamie Lee Curtis

Say My Name

166 Comments | Posted November 26, 2011 | 14:35:46 (EST)

I recently traveled across the country for the holiday and everywhere I went, from the Captain and flight attendants (although you always get the Captain's FULL name and only the first for the attendants) to the hotel desk, bell and wait staff, everyone has a name tag and therefore I...

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Hindsight

750 Comments | Posted November 10, 2011 | 11:48:00 (EST)

Is that what he said? Excuse the pun -- or shall I say STUN -- but that is exactly what was seen, the hind end of an adult sodomizing a child and now Coach Paterno is trying to say that in hindsight he would have done things differently. This is...

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Words With Friends and Back to Home-Ec

285 Comments | Posted October 11, 2011 | 22:45:55 (EST)

When did it happen? When did this modern, post-feminist, post-Wendy Wasserstein-Heidi Chronicled group of Uncommon Women become 50's housewives? When? I now am obsessed with making gourmet food, organically grown, artisanally produced as I play Words With Friends compulsively with with my girlfriends, this generation's Coffee Klatch, while we drink...

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The Scarlet Letter

Posted May 19, 2011 | 13:40:12 (EST)

I am the product of a famous family and the product of a famous divorce. I have seen it done well and fairly and lovingly and I have seen it become a war zone with PTSD results.

If my parents lived in the age of Twitter and TMZ and 24/7/365...

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What If?

Posted March 12, 2011 | 12:09:24 (EST)

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I am asking all HuffPosters to share my January 2010 post about Haiti and our need for preparedness in case of an emergency.

Please share it and this:

I watched the Oscars (wish I hadn't) and there was the...

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My ADELE-ation Turns Into My Need for a 12-Step Program for My ADELE-iction

Posted March 8, 2011 | 13:09:07 (EST)

Sometimes it just hits me. When I look around me, see so much difficulty and strife in my own life, in my friends and the lives of others, in the country and the world, art always brings me around.

Adele's sophomore album 21, the #1 album in America, has...

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Nothing to Undo?

Posted January 27, 2011 | 18:09:21 (EST)

At random times, with no apparent reason, my iPhone keeps asking me or telling me, "NOTHING TO UNDO?" Is it a question or is it a directive, some tech nudge from the cyber-Gods?

I keep thinking it should be the title of my never-to-be-written autobiography, so instead I am making...

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Attitude of Gratitude

Posted November 25, 2010 | 10:00:00 (EST)

Tis the season to be... what? Grateful, Gluttonous, Generous, Greedy, Gregarious, Good?

The bombardment of messages, and yes I have heard my first Christmas song, "Silver Bells" ("ring a ling"), the messages tell us to -- charge and want, bigger and flatter is better, buy and eat. Buy and eat....

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Consider the Source

Posted September 15, 2010 | 17:36:40 (EST)

As a mother of a fourteen-year-old gamer, my summer's entertainment consisted of tech camp, a "Weird Al" Yankovic concert, a triumvirate of cinematic testosterone; Kick-Ass, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Expendables, and a DVD favorite, South Park, the movie. Buried deep in the South Park expletive-fest is the simple...

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The World Cup Reminds Us to Say No to Racism

Posted July 10, 2010 | 12:20:43 (EST)

Sometimes the media gives us all a chance to look in the mirror. Michael Jackson's song is a musical way to see it

"Man In The Mirror"

I'm Gonna Make A Change,
For Once In My Life
It's Gonna Feel Real Good,
Gonna...

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An Open Letter to Gary Conklin and the Workers of the Conklin Dairy Farm

Posted May 27, 2010 | 11:04:51 (EST)

Mr. Conklin,

Our daughter came to us last night urging us to watch the video of the abuse at your plant. She was overcome with grief that human beings could inflict such cruelty and unconscious hatred at the most benign of creatures and their infants. The shocking images...

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Blindsided by a Bottle

Posted April 5, 2010 | 11:21:59 (EST)

He didn't see it coming. His grieving parents didn't see it coming. Neither did his coaches, friends or family. They never do. Yet the bottle and the culture of drinking did it again. I've been waiting for the call to action. The marches, the television pundits opining about the epidemic,...

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Fix the Income

Posted January 30, 2010 | 10:34:48 (EST)

How did this happen. When did it happen? Was it the crash or the Mad(off) men or the shock and awe of the (don't bet on the) banks and the bailout (rages)? What happened to the good old days? They were never that good, as each successive generation supplanted the...

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Prepare to Be Desperate

Posted January 16, 2010 | 14:34:59 (EST)

The images tell it all. How can it be? Yet again, with the advent of technology we are there, intimate in the grief, desperation, hopelessness and deep frustration that in a time of great crisis we/you/they are alone, no aid for days. As the National Red Cross Spokesperson for their...

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Gridlocked (Out) At Christmas

Posted December 27, 2009 | 13:11:14 (EST)

"Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a drop of electricity could light up a mouse...."

I am spending my holiday with my family and friends in the mountains of Idaho in our log cabin, and after a lovely Christmas Eve pizza party, when we arrived...

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Warning: Graphic Images

Posted December 16, 2009 | 10:31:11 (EST)

Warning: graphic images.

Made ya look, didn't I?

WTFIGO (is going on)?

I am shocked and saddened by the seemingly insurmountable amount of visual carnage that is being pushed as news. With the advent of the internet and 3G and 4G technology, images and streaming video of gruesome accidents,...

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Every Day Is Thanksgiving

Posted November 26, 2009 | 09:01:00 (EST)

When I was on a double family RV trip to Big Sur this last Spring Break, when we arrived at our campground, a young man who was helping us set up the two large rigs dropped his campground manifesto on me, "There are two kinds of people. One who wakes...

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Trick or Treat or Terrify?

Posted October 30, 2009 | 15:34:02 (EST)

Spoiler alert!

The "Queen Of Scream" is actually the "Queen of Squeam (ish)."

I woke up this morning to the cover of the Los Angeles Times and the moving image of the President of the United States saluting the returning war dead, their young bodies ripped...

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Crimes and Misdemeanors

Posted October 3, 2009 | 02:44:44 (EST)

So Rio was awarded the games. How wonderful. How appropriate and to use a modern parlance: "It's about, like, freakin time." Obama Snubbed!, so claimed this very website. Snubbed? Come on. He went, he pitched, they chose another city. Done. Good for him for trying, the hometown son fighting for...

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Say

Posted August 29, 2009 | 15:40:43 (EST)

At the end of the lovely Rob Reiner film The Bucket List, two human men -- flawed and contradictory, given knowledge that their oh-so-human lives are about to come to their mortal end -- find redemption and transformation. The song "Say" by John Mayer plays over the credits. The film...

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