Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis, Baroness Haden-Guest (born November 22, 1958) is an American actress, producer, children's author, and activist. She came to prominence with her portrayal of Lt. Barbara Duran on the ABC sitcom Operation Petticoat (1977–78). In 1978, she made her feature film debut playing Laurie Strode in John Carpenter's slasher film Halloween, which established her as a scream queen and led to a string of parts in horror films such as The Fog, Prom Night, Terror Train (all 1980) and Roadgames (1981). She reprised the role of Laurie in the sequels Halloween II (1981), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), Halloween: Resurrection (2002), Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills (2021), and Halloween Ends (2022).

Jamie Lee Curtis
Curtis at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con
Born (1958-11-22) November 22, 1958
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Occupation
  • Actress
  • producer
  • author
  • activist
Years active1977–present
Spouse
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(m. 1984)​
Children2
Parents
Relatives
  • Kelly Curtis (sister)
  • Allegra Curtis (half-sister)
Signature

Curtis's film work spans many genres, including the cult comedies Trading Places (1983)—for which she won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress—and A Fish Called Wanda (1988), for which she received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress. Her role in the 1985 film Perfect earned her a reputation as a sex symbol.[1] She won a Golden Globe Award for her role as Helen Tasker in James Cameron's action thriller True Lies (1994). Curtis's other notable film credits include Blue Steel (1990), My Girl (1991), Forever Young (1992), Mother's Boys (1993), Virus (1999), Drowning Mona (2000), The Tailor of Panama (2001), Freaky Friday (2003), Christmas with the Kranks (2004), You Again (2010), Knives Out (2019), and Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022). To date, her films have grossed in excess of US$2.3 billion at the box office.[2]

Curtis received a Golden Globe and a People's Choice Award for her role as Hannah Miller on ABC's Anything But Love (1989–1992), and earned an Primetime Emmy nomination for Nicholas' Gift (1998). She also starred as Cathy Munsch on the Fox series Scream Queens (2015–16), for which she received her seventh Golden Globe nomination. Curtis has written numerous children's books, including Today I Feel Silly, and Other Moods That Make My Day (1998), which made The New York Times's best-seller list. She is also a frequent blogger for The Huffington Post.

In 2016, IndieWire named her one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.[3] Curtis is a daughter of Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. She is married to Christopher Guest, with whom she has two adopted children. Due to her marriage with Guest, who is the 5th Baron Haden-Guest in the United Kingdom, Curtis is a baroness, though she does not use this title.[4]

Early life
Curtis with her mother, Janet Leigh, in 1960

Curtis was born in Santa Monica, California, to actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Her father was Jewish, a son of Hungarian Jewish immigrants, from Mátészalka.[5][6] Two of her maternal great-grandparents were Danish, while the rest of her mother's ancestry was German and Scots-Irish.[7] Curtis has an older sister, Kelly Curtis, who is also an actress, and four half-siblings (all from her father's remarriages): Alexandra, actress Allegra Curtis, Benjamin, and Nicholas Curtis (who died in 1994 of a drug overdose).[8] Curtis's parents divorced in 1962. After the divorce, she stated her father was "not around" and that he was "not interested in being a father."[9] She was raised by her mother and her stepfather, stockbroker Robert Brandt.[10]

Curtis attended elite schools Westlake School (now Harvard-Westlake School) and Beverly Hills High School in Los Angeles, and graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut in 1976.[11] Returning to California in 1976, she attended her mother's alma mater, the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, and studied law.[12][13] She dropped out after one semester to pursue an acting career.[14]

Acting career

Film performances

Curtis's film debut occurred in the 1978 horror film Halloween, in which she played the role of Laurie Strode. The film was a major success and was considered the highest-grossing independent film of its time, earning accolades as a classic horror film. The producer, Debra Hill, specifically cast Curtis because her mother, Leigh, had been known as a horror icon.[15] Curtis was subsequently cast in several horror films, garnering her the title "scream queen."[16] She would also return to the Halloween franchise seven times, playing Strode again in the sequels Halloween II (1981), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), Halloween: Resurrection (2002), Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills (2021), and Halloween Ends (2022), and having an uncredited voice role in Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982).

Her next film following Halloween was The Fog, which was helmed by Halloween director John Carpenter. The horror film opened in February 1980 to mixed reviews but strong box office,[17] starting Curtis as a horror film starlet. Her next film, Prom Night, was a low-budget Canadian slasher film released in July 1980. The film, for which she earned a Genie Award nomination for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress, was similar in style to Halloween, yet received negative reviews which marked it as a disposable entry in the then-popular slasher genre. That year, Curtis also starred in Terror Train, which opened in October and met with negative reviews akin to Prom Night. Both films performed moderately well at the box office.[18] Curtis's roles in the latter two films served a similar function to that of Strode—the main character whose friends are murdered and is practically the only protagonist to survive. Film critic Roger Ebert, who gave negative reviews to all three of Curtis's 1980 films, said that Curtis "is to the current horror film glut what Christopher Lee was to the last one—or Boris Karloff was in the 1930s."[19] In 1981, she appeared alongside Stacey Keach in the Australian thriller film Roadgames, directed by Carpenter's friend Richard Franklin; her importation, which was requested by the film's American distributor AVCO Embassy Pictures, was contested by the Sydney branch of Actors Equity.[20][21] Although the film was a box office bomb in Australia and Franklin later regretted not increasing the size of Curtis's role, it has achieved a cult following and was championed by Quentin Tarantino.[22] In 1997, she was inducted into the Fangoria Hall of Fame.

Curtis at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival

Her role in 1983's Trading Places helped Curtis shed her horror queen image, and garnered her a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.[23] She then starred in the 1988 comedy film A Fish Called Wanda, which achieved cult status while showcasing her as a comedic actress. For her performance, she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.[23] Curtis received positive reviews for her performance in the action thriller Blue Steel (1990), which was directed by Kathryn Bigelow. She also received a Golden Globe Award for her work in the 1994 action comedy film True Lies, directed by James Cameron.[24]

Her other film roles also include the coming-of-age films My Girl (1991) and My Girl 2 (1994), and the Disney comedy film Freaky Friday (2003), opposite Lindsay Lohan. The latter was filmed at Palisades High School in Pacific Palisades, California, near where Curtis and Guest lived with their children. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for her performance in the film.[25] She starred in the Christmas comedy film Christmas with the Kranks (2004), which went on to gain a cult following.

In October 2006, Curtis told Access Hollywood that she had closed the book on her acting career to focus on her family. She returned to acting after being cast in June 2007 in Disney's live-action-animated film Beverly Hills Chihuahua, co-starring opposite Piper Perabo as one of three live-action characters in the film. She also starred in the 2010 comedy film You Again, opposite Kristen Bell and Sigourney Weaver.[26] Curtis had voice roles in the animated films The Little Engine That Could (2011) and From Up on Poppy Hill (2011). This was followed by supporting roles in the neo-noir mystery film Veronica Mars (2014) and the biographical drama film Spare Parts (2015).

Curtis returned to leading roles with her reprisal of Laurie Strode in the horror sequel film Halloween (2018). The film debuted to $76.2 million, marking the second-best opening weekend of October and the highest opening weekend of the Halloween franchise; and became the biggest domestic grosser in the franchise with its opening weekend alone.[27] Its opening performance was the best-ever for a film starring a lead actress over 55 years old.[28] Curtis's performance earned critical acclaim.[29] Also in 2018, she had a role in the drama film An Acceptable Loss. She then starred as Linda Drysdale-Thrombrey in Rian Johnson's mystery film Knives Out, which earned critical acclaim and over $300 million at the global box office.[30]

In September 2021, she was honored with the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for her lifetime achievements.[31] Curtis again reprised her role as Laurie Strode in the horror sequels Halloween Kills, which was released in October 2021, and in Halloween Ends, which was released in October 2022.[32] She also appeared as Deirdre Beaubeirdra in the science fiction action film Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), and will have a leading role in the video game adaptation Borderlands.

Television performances
Curtis at the 1989 Primetime Emmy Awards

Curtis made her television debut in a 1977 episode of the drama series Quincy, M.E.. She went on to guest star on several series, including Columbo, Charlie's Angels and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. She appeared as Nurse Lt. Barbara Duran in the short-lived comedy series Operation Petticoat (1977–1978), based on the 1959 film that starred her father, Tony Curtis. Curtis was also a gameshow panelist on several episodes of Match Game.

Curtis starred in the 1981 television film Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story, playing the eponymous doomed Playmate. She earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for her work in TNT's adaptation of the Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles. Her first starring role on television came opposite Richard Lewis in the situation comedy series Anything But Love, which ran for four seasons from 1989 through 1992. For her performance as Hannah Miller, she received a People's Choice Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. Curtis also appeared in a 1996 episode of the sitcom The Drew Carey Show. In 1998, she starred in the CBS television film Nicholas' Gift, for which she received an Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

In 2012, she appeared in five episodes of the police drama series NCIS, playing the role of Dr. Samantha Ryan, a potential romantic interest of Special Agent Gibbs (Mark Harmon). During an interview, she stated that if they could develop a storyline, she would be interested to return to the series, but this never occurred.[33] The series reunited Curtis with Harmon, after he played her character's fiancé and later husband in the 2003 remake of Freaky Friday.[34]

From 2012 to 2018, Curtis had a recurring role as Joan Day, the mother of Zooey Deschanel's character, in the sitcom New Girl. From 2015 to 2016, Curtis had a lead role as Cathy Munsch on the Fox satirical horror comedy series Scream Queens, which aired for two seasons. For her performance, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy.

Other ventures

Children's books

Working with illustrator Laura Cornell, Curtis has written a number of children's books,[35] all published by HarperCollins Children's Books.[36]

Curtis autographing a copy of her children's book in 2010
  • When I Was Little: A Four-Year Old's Memoir of Her Youth, 1993.
  • Tell Me Again About The Night I was Born, 1996.
  • Today I Feel Silly, and Other Moods That Make My Day, 1998; listed on the New York Times best-seller list for 10 weeks.[37]
  • Where Do Balloons Go?: An Uplifting Mystery, 2000.
  • I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem, 2002.
  • It's Hard to Be Five: Learning How to Work My Control Panel, 2004.
  • Is There Really a Human Race?, 2006.
  • Big Words for Little People, ISBN 978-0-06-112759-5, 2008.
  • My Friend Jay, 2009, edition of one, presented to Jay Leno
  • My Mommy Hung the Moon: A Love Story, 2010.
  • My Brave Year of Firsts, 2016.
  • This Is Me: A Story of Who We Are and Where We Came From, 2016.
  • Me, Myselfie & I: A Cautionary Tale, 2018.[38]

Invention

In 1987, Curtis filed a US patent application that subsequently issued as Patent No. 4,753,647. This is a modification of a diaper with a moisture-proof pocket containing wipes that can be taken out and used with one hand.[39] Curtis refused to allow her invention to be marketed until companies started selling biodegradable diapers.[40] The full statutory term of this patent expired February 20, 2007, and it is now in the public domain. She filed a second US patent application related to disposable diapers in 2016 which issued as US Patent 9,827,151[41] on November 28, 2017, and will expire on September 7, 2036.

Blogging

Curtis is a blogger for The Huffington Post online newspaper.[42] On her website, Curtis tells her young readers that she "moonlights as an actor, photographer, and closet organizer".[35]

Podcasts

Curtis launched the podcast series Letters from Camp on Audible in 2020[43] and Good Friend with Jamie Lee Curtis for iHeartRadio in 2021.[44]

Political views
Curtis speaking at an event in support of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in September 2016

During California's 2008 general election, Curtis appeared in the "Yes on Prop 3" television advertisements.[45]

In March 2012, Curtis was featured with Martin Sheen and Brad Pitt in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play 8—a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage—as Sandy Stier.[46] The production was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and broadcast on YouTube to raise money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights.[47][48] In June 2016, the Human Rights Campaign released a video in tribute to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting; in the video, Curtis and others told the stories of the people killed there.[49][50]

Curtis endorsed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election; she has since been a vocal critic of President Donald Trump.[51]

Philanthropy

Beginning in 1990, Curtis and her father, Tony, took a renewed interest in their family's Hungarian Jewish heritage, and helped finance the rebuilding of the "Great Synagogue" in Budapest, Hungary. The largest synagogue in Europe today, it was originally built in 1859 and suffered damage during World War II.[52]

Curtis also helped to refurbish the synagogue in Mátészalka where her grandparents worshipped. She attended the opening of the Tony Curtis Memorial Museum and Cafe, which is also located in Mátészalka.[53]

Curtis was guest of honor at the 11th annual gala and fundraiser in 2003 for Women in Recovery, a Venice, California-based non-profit organization offering a live-in, twelve-step program of rehabilitation for women in need. Past honorees of this organization include Sir Anthony Hopkins and Dame Angela Lansbury. Curtis is also involved in the work of the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation, serving as the annual host for the organization's "Dream Halloween" event in Los Angeles, launched every year in October.[54][55]

Curtis plays a leadership role for Children's Hospital Los Angeles and supported the 2011 opening of a new inpatient facility for the organization.[56]

Personal life

Curtis married Christopher Guest on December 18, 1984. She saw a picture of him from the movie This Is Spinal Tap in Rolling Stone and told her friend Debra Hill, "Oh, I'm going to marry that guy"; she married him five months later.[57] They have two adopted daughters: Annie, born in 1986, and Ruby, born in 1996; Ruby is transgender.[58][59] Curtis is actor Jake Gyllenhaal's godmother.[60] Prior to her marriage to Guest, Curtis dated British rock singer Adam Ant.[61]

Her father-in-law was a British hereditary peer, Peter Haden-Guest, 4th Baron Haden-Guest; when he died on April 8, 1996, her husband succeeded him, becoming the 5th Baron Haden-Guest and making her The Honourable the Lady Haden-Guest. Curtis does not use this title, saying, "it has nothing to do with me".[62]

She is close friends with actress Sigourney Weaver. In a 2015 interview, she said she has never watched Weaver's film Alien in its entirety because she was too scared by it.[63]

Curtis is a recovering alcoholic, and was once addicted to painkillers that she began using after a cosmetic surgical procedure.[64] She became sober from opiates in 1999 after reading and relating to Tom Chiarella's account of addiction;[10] and maintains that recovery is the greatest achievement of her life.[65]

After her father Tony's death, she learned that her entire family, including siblings, had been cut out of his will.[66]

She is a fan of World of Warcraft[67] and One Piece,[68] and has attended Comic-Con, EVO[69] and BlizzCon[70] incognito.

Curtis received the Lifetime Achievement Award during the 78th Venice International Film Festival, to which she reacted saying that she "[felt] so alive, like I'm this 14-year-old person just beginning their life. That’s how I wake up every day with that sort of joy and purpose" and added that she "is just beginning [her] work."[71]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
1978 Halloween Laurie Strode
1980 The Fog Elizabeth Solley
Prom Night Kim Hammond
Terror Train Alana Maxwell
1981 Escape from New York Narrator / Computer (voice) Uncredited
Roadgames Pamela "Hitch" Rushworth
Halloween II Laurie Strode
1982 Halloween III: Season of the Witch Telephone Operator (voice) Uncredited
Coming Soon Narrator Documentary
1983 Trading Places Ophelia
1984 Love Letters Anna Winter
Grandview, U.S.A. Michelle "Mike" Cody
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Sandra Banzai In extended version
1985 Perfect Jessie Wilson
1987 A Man in Love Susan Elliot
Amazing Grace and Chuck Lynn Taylor
1988 Dominick and Eugene Jennifer Reston
A Fish Called Wanda Wanda Gershwitz
1990 Blue Steel Megan Turner
1991 Queens Logic Grace
My Girl Shelly DeVoto
1992 Forever Young Claire Cooper
1993 Mother's Boys Judith "Jude" Madigan
1994 My Girl 2 Shelly DeVoto Sultenfuss
True Lies Helen Tasker
1996 House Arrest Janet Beindorf
1997 Fierce Creatures Willa Weston
1998 Homegrown Sierra Kahan
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later Laurie Strode / Keri Tate
1999 Virus Kelly Foster
2000 Drowning Mona Rona Mace
2001 The Tailor of Panama Louisa Pendel
Daddy and Them Elaine Bowen
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys Queen Camilla (voice)
2002 Halloween: Resurrection Laurie Strode
2003 Freaky Friday Tess Coleman / Anna Coleman
2004 Christmas with the Kranks Nora Krank
2005 The Kid & I Herself
2008 Beverly Hills Chihuahua Vivian Ashe
2010 You Again Gail Byer Olsen
2011 The Little Engine That Could Beverly "Bev" (voice)
2012 From Up on Poppy Hill Ryoko Matsuzaki (voice) English dub
2014 Veronica Mars Gayle Buckley
2015 Spare Parts Principal Karen Lowry
2017 Hondros None Executive producer
2018 Halloween Laurie Strode Also executive producer
An Acceptable Loss Rachel Burke
2019 Knives Out Linda Drysdale-Thrombey
2021 Halloween Kills Laurie Strode Also executive producer
2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once Deirdre Beaubeirdra
Halloween Ends Laurie Strode Also executive producer
2023 Haunted Mansion Madame Leota Post-production
Borderlands Dr. Patricia Tannis Post-production[72]

Television
Year Title Role Notes
1977Quincy, M.E.Girl in Dressing RoomEpisode: "Visitors in Paradise"[73]
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew MysteriesMaryEpisode: "Mystery of the Fallen Angels"
ColumboWaitressEpisode: "The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case"
1977–1978Operation PetticoatLt. Barbara DuranMain role
1978Charlie's AngelsLinda FreyEpisode: "Winning Is for Losers"
The Love BoatLindaEpisode: "Till Death Do Us Part, Maybe/Chubs/Locked Away"
1979Buck Rogers in the 25th CenturyJen BurtonEpisode: "Unchained Woman"
1980Saturday Night LiveHostEpisode: "Jamie Lee Curtis/James Brown & Ellen Shipley"
1981She's in the Army NowPvt. Rita JenningsTelevision film
Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten StoryDorothy StrattenTelevision film
1982CallahanRachel BartlettTelevision film
Money on the SideMichelle JamisonTelevision film
1984Saturday Night LiveHerself/Host2 episodes: "Thompson Twins" & "Jamie Lee Curtis/The Fixx"
1985Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales & LegendsAnnie OakleyEpisode: "Annie Oakley"
1986As Summers DieWhitsey LoftinTelevision film
1989–1992Anything but LoveHannah MillerMain role; also directed episode: "The Call of the Mild"
1995The Heidi ChroniclesHeidi HollandTelevision film
1996The Drew Carey ShowSiouxEpisode: "Playing a Unified Field"
1998Nicholas' GiftMaggie GreenTelevision film
2000Pigs Next DoorClara (voice)Episode: "Movin' On Up"
2005A Home for the HolidaysTV Program HostTelevision film
2012NCISDr. Samantha Ryan5 episodes[74][75]
2012–2018New GirlJoan Day6 episodes
2014Only HumanEvelyn LangTelevision film
2015–2016Scream QueensCathy MunschMain role; also directed episode: "Rapunzel, Rapunzel"
2019Guest GrumpsHerselfWeb series; episode: "Playing Super Mario Party w/ JAMIE LEE CURTIS!"[76]
2020 Archer Agent Peregrine Bruchstein (voice) 2 episodes[77]
2022 Reno 911! Lieutenant Donna Fitzgibbons Episode: "Bad Lieutenant Woman"

Awards and nominations
Year Association Category Work Result Ref.
1981 Genie Award Best Performance by a Foreign Actress Prom Night Nominated [78]
Saturn Award Best Actress Terror Train Nominated [79]
1984 Jupiter Award Best International Actress Trading Places Nominated
British Academy Film Award Best Actress in a Supporting Role Won [80]
1986 Jupiter Award Best International Actress Perfect Won
1989 American Comedy Award Funniest Lead Actress in a Motion Picture A Fish Called Wanda Nominated [81]
British Academy Film Award Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated [80]
Golden Globe Award Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Nominated [82]
1990 Cognac Festival du Film Policier Special Mention Award Blue Steel Won [83]
Mystfest Award Best Actress Won [84]
Golden Globe Award Best Actress in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical Anything But Love Won [85]
People's Choice Award Favorite Female Performer in a New Television Series Won [86]
1991 Viewers for Quality Television Award Best Actress in a Quality Comedy Series Nominated [87]
1992 Golden Globe Award Best Actress in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical Nominated [88]
1995 Fangoria Chainsaw Award Best Actress Mother's Boys Nominated [89]
Awards Circuit Community Award Best Actress in a Leading Role True Lies Nominated [90]
American Comedy Award Funniest Lead Actress in a Motion Picture Won [91]
Blockbuster Entertainment Award Favorite Actress – Action/Adventure Nominated [92]
Golden Globe Award Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Won [93]
MTV Movie + TV Award Best Female Performance Nominated [94]
MTV Movie + TV Award Best Kiss (shared with Arnold Schwarzenegger) Nominated [94]
Saturn Award Best Actress Won [95]
Screen Actors Guild Award Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated [96]
1996 Golden Globe Award Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television The Heidi Chronicles Nominated [97]
1998 Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Nicholas' Gift Nominated [98]
1999 Blockbuster Entertainment Award Favorite Actress – Horor Halloween H20: 20 Years Later Nominated [99]
Fangoria Chainsaw Award Best Actress Won [100]
Saturn Award Best Actress Nominated [101]
2001 DVD Exclusive Award Best Animated Character Performance Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
and the Island of Misfit Toys		 Nominated [102]
2003 Grammy Award Best Spoken Word Album for Children The Jamie Lee Curtis Audio Collection Nominated [103]
2004 Golden Globe Award Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Freaky Friday Nominated [104]
Satellite Award Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Nominated [105]
Saturn Award Best Actress Nominated [106]
2012 Behind the Voice Actors Award Best Vocal Ensemble in a Television Special/Direct-to-DVD Title or Short The Little Engine That Could Nominated [107]
2014 Behind the Voice Actors Award Best Female Vocal Performance in an Anime Feature Film/Special in a Supporting Role From Up on Poppy Hill Won [107]
Behind the Voice Actors Award Best Vocal Ensemble in an Anime Feature Film/Special Nominated [107]
2015 20/20 Award Best Actress True Lies Nominated [108]
2016 Satellite Award Best Actress in a Series – Comedy or Musical Scream Queens Nominated [109]
Fangoria Chainsaw Award Best Television Supporting Actress Nominated [110]
Golden Globe Award Best Actress in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical Nominated [111]
People's Choice Award Favorite Actress in a New Television Series Nominated [112]
2018 IGN Summer Movie Award Best Lead Performer in a Movie Halloween Nominated [113]
Fright Meter Award Best Actress Nominated [114]
2019 Fangoria Chainsaw Award Best Actress Nominated [115]
Saturn Award Best Actress Won [116]
National Board of Review Best Cast Knives Out Won [117]
2020 Critics' Choice Award Best Acting Ensemble Nominated [118]
Gold Derby Award Best Ensemble Nominated [119]
Satellite Award Best Cast – Motion Picture Won [120]
2021 Saturn Award Best Supporting Actress Nominated [121]

Honors
Year Association Category Result Ref.
1988 Golden Apple Award Female Star of the Year Honored
1998 Hollywood Walk of Fame Motion Picture – 6600 Hollywood Blvd. Honored [122]
2000 Hasty Pudding Theatrical Award Woman of the Year Honored [123]
2021 78th Venice International Film Festival Golden Lion Honorary Award Honored [124]

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