Jamie Lee Curtis

Born:

Nov. 22, 1958

Birth Name:

Jamie Lee Curtis

Birthplace:

Los Angeles, California

Profile:

Few, if any, horror actors or actresses have had a stretch of roles as impressive as Jamie Lee Curtis's between 1978 and 1981. Not only did she star in the groundbreaking hit Halloween -- which served as a template for all other slasher films to follow -- but she followed it up with five more horror movies in the span of two years.

Surprisingly for the genre, all of them were of high quality: Halloween director John Carpenter's ghost story The Fog, the first sequel to Halloween (not directed by Carpenter, but handled ably by Rick Rosenthal) and two entries from the "Golden Age" of slashers in Prom Night and Terror Train. The least known of her films during this stretch is the Australian serial killer flick Road Games, but apart from the original Halloween, it might actually be the best of the bunch.

These horror heroine roles established her as perhaps the biggest "scream queen" of all time. Although Curtis would leave horror for more mainstream fare, she returned to the Halloween franchise in the late '90s and even branched out into the high seas horror of Virus in 1999.

Horror Filmography:

• Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
• Virus (1999)
• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
• Halloween II (1981)
• Road Games (1981)
• Terror Train (1980)
• Prom Night (1980)
• The Fog (1980)
• Halloween (1978)