Jamie Lee Curtis is an 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 for which she earned an Emmy nomination. She recently appeared as Dr. Samantha Ryan on NCIS and proudly played one of the plaintiffs, Sandy Stier, in ‘8’ the play by Dustin Lance Black about the 2010 federal court case against Proposition 8.

She recently played the role of Cathy Munsch in Fox's Horror Comedy "Scream Queens."

Ms. Curtis is also an author of best-selling children’s books, having sold over five million books under the banner Books To Grow By: My Mommy Hung The Moon, A Love Story , BIG WORDS for Little People, Is There Really A Human Race?, 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. She just published her 10th book entitled My Brave Year of Firsts; Tries, Sighs and High Fives.

Ms. Curtis has a deep and active connection to many children’s charities. Ms. Curtis is a recovering alcoholic/addict and was honored to have served on the Board of Directors of CASA (The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University) and The Scott Hitt Foundation. She is currently serving on the Board of Trustees at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

She is the mother of Annie, age 32 and Thomas, age 23 and has been married for 35 years to actor/director Christopher Guest.

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