Biography
Jamie Lee Kertis is an American actress that has gained the greatest popularity and demand in two completely different and even opposite genres: in horror films and comedies.
As an actress of thrillers Jamie Lee Curtis received the title of "Queen Creek" and appeared in the famous Halloween franchise and in the paintings of the Fear train, "Fog", "School Ball" and others. As a comedic actress Lee Curtis realized in the films "Places," Fish named Wanda "," again you "and others.
The combination of these two amplua actresses became a role in the series "Queen Creek", shot in the comedy genre with black humor and parodies on horror films.
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis was born on November 22, 1958 in America. And not somewhere, but in Los Angeles, in the acting family. The fate itself predetermined her profession. In the residents of Jamie flows the Jewish, Danish and Hungarian blood.
It would seem that childhood in the acting family should be bright and saturated impressions, but Jamie has developed otherwise. When she was 4 years old, the parents divorced. Jamie and her older sister stayed with her mother. Girls mother soon got married again.
Jamie Lee Curtis grew a quiet and peaceful girl, well studied at school, not Shalila. After graduation, he entered the college in Connecticut, and then at the Faculty of Social Work of the University in Stockton. True, in the university, she studied the whole semester. By this time, Jamie finally approved in the thoughts that social work is not her vocation. She wanted to become an actress.
Films
Jamie had a talent, so she was not surprised when director Carpenter offered her to play in the painting "Halloween". It was in 1978, when a girl was just 20 years old. Her debut was so successful that the director invited her and the next film - "Fog". Then there were shooting in the project "Terror train". Three roles in a row in the horror films - this was enough for Lady Horror's reputation for Lee Curtis. Fortunately, in this amplua, she remained long.
In 1983, Jamie appeared in the comedy to "swap in places", and in 1988 he played in the film "Fish named Wanda". Comedy roles managed actress no less brilliantly than roles in horror films. To "swap", Jamie played a prostitute Ophelia, and in the "Fish named Wanda" - a hedge of the seductive, demonstrating the wonders of inventiveness and resourcefulness in thieves.
Slim, briefly condensed Jamie Lee Curtis exudes sexual energy from the screen. This is especially felt in the film "Perfection", where the actress played the fitness coach. In front of the shooting, she traded himself half a year, he was swaming, got rid of unnecessary kilograms. Then there was a new image of a policeman in the picture "Blown Steel", the role of the editor of a major radio company in the film "Love Letters" and others. In each of these images, Jamie was convincing.
Yet spectators used to see her in comedy roles. In 1992, the film "My Girl" was released with Lee Curtis. The film crew countended success, but the lyrical plot, more than the drama, disappointed fans of the actress creativity.
However, in 1994, the actress again received the recognition and love of the audience. This year, the creative biography of the actress was replenished with a role in the comedy militant James Cameron "Truthful Lies", for which the actress even received the prestigious Award "Golden Globe".
In 1998 and 2002, the actress was starred in two parts of Halloween, and in 2003 he brilliantly played a teenager in the comedy "Chumova Friday". The audience were delighted with reincarnation of a mature woman in a girl.
From mid-2015 to the end of 2016, Jamie Lee Curtis played the role of director Katie Manch in the television series "Queen Creek". This is a comedy with a black humor, the authors themselves characterized the film as a meeting of "Dried Girls" with the "Friday of the 13th".
The name of the series comes from the name of the classic role actresses in horror films. "Queen Creek" is a sacrifice for which a monster or maniac travels throughout the film, and whose main responsibility - loudly and shrill at the sight of scenario-terrible things. By the way, in this amplua and proven himself Jamie Lee Curtis, who was shot by the series in the horror genre "Halloween".
The action of the first season of the series unfolds in a jettle, in the prestigious female nursing house "Kappa Kappa Tau", where bloody murders occur. The inhabitants of this house are glamorous and rich girls under the leadership of Santa Chanel (Emma Roberts). The main activity of the club becomes to select fashionable things, perform the whims of Chanels and mock less successful girls.
The Life of the Club is changing with the arrival of more independent participants, as well as with the advent of the killer. Heroine Jamie Lee Curtis is trying to calm the problem home and find a killer to not lose his own directorial position, while the girls consider manc to be the main suspect. Katie Manches regularly appears in the plot, and, according to the authors, the main scenario was initially written under Heroin Lee Curtis and Roberts.
The final of the first season fully reveals the characters and completes the storyline, so the second season started in September 2016 is plicyly connected with the first. In this regard, the "Queen Creek" repeat the structure of another famous series of horrors - "American horror history." The only difference is that "Aiu" carries out of the plot into the plot of only actors, "Queen" they are consolidated by the identity of the characters.
The second season takes place in the hospital, which was bought by Dean Katie Manch and conducts experimental studies there. Chanel with Feds work in the hospital nurses, and, like in the first season, cruel murders begin in the hospital.
For the role in the "Queen of the Creek", the actress was nominated for the "Golden Globe", but did not receive the prize. In total, during the work of the actress, the Golden Globe received twice, was nominated several times to other prestigious premiums.
Personal life
In 1984, Jamie married Chris Gesta's reporter - English Lord and Baron. The couple raises the daughter of Anna and the Son of Thomas, both children are receiving.Their family lives together and happily in their own mansion in the ancient area of Los Angeles.
Jamie Lee Curtis saw Hollywood's morals since childhood. She always dreamed of having a family, and most was afraid of alcoholic and drug addiction. Therefore, Jamie worked on themselves for a long time, led and leads a healthy lifestyle. She does not suffer from "star disease", in the interruptions between work on the set writes books for children.
Jamie Lee Curtis leads a modest lifestyle on Hollywood standards: it does not appear at parties, not involved in the scandals. But the actress received exactly what he dreamed of all his life - a family, a favorite job and calm.
Jamie Lee Curtis now
Today, Jamie Lee Curtis is removed immediately in several major projects. At the fall of 2018, the premiere of the horror movie "Halloween returns", the new picture of the Halloween franchise is the popularity of the actress. Initially, the film was planned as a restart or, according to the authors, "recalibration" of original paintings, but later David Gordon Green and Danny McBride said that the film would become a direct sequel of the original "Halloween".
In a new horror film, Jamie Lee Curtis once again returned to the role of Laurie Stanud, which the actress played already in five films. In early 2018, the actress posted photos in this image in "Instagram", explicitly showed that the film is on the film comes in full swing.
Also, for 2018, the premieres of two more projects with the participation of the actress are stated: the Senior Entourage comedy and the "Thepages" dramatic thriller. Both films have not yet received the Russian-speaking localization.
But the plans of the actress are not limited to 2018. Announced premiere with Jamie Lee Curtis, which will be held in 2019. This is a comedy fighter with the elements of the Drama "Spychosis".
Filmography
- 1978 - "Halloween"
- 1980 - "Fear Train"
- 1983 - "swap in places"
- 1987 - "In Love Man"
- 1988 - "Fish named Wanda"
- 2003 - "Chumova Friday"
- 1984 - "Love letters"
- 2004 - "Christmas with losers"
- 1990 - "Blue Steel"
- 2015 - "Life of the Robot"
- 2015-2016 - "Queen Creek"