Jamie Lee Curtis will get a career
Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in September, organizers
said Wednesday.
The American actress will get the award on September ahead of
the showing of her latest film Halloween Kills, directed by
David Gordon Green, they said.
Curtis, 62, made her film acting debut as Laurie Strode in John
Carpenter's horror film Halloween (1978), which established her
as a scream queen, and she thereafter appeared in a string of
horror films, including 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), and Halloween (2018).
She also starred in cult comedies Trading Places (1983), for
which she received a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress, and A
Fish Called Wanda (1988), for which she earned a BAFTA
nomination for Best Actress. She won a Golden Globe, an American
Comedy Award, and a Saturn Award for playing the starring role
of Helen Tasker in James Cameron's action comedy film True Lies
(1994). Curtis's other major films include Blue Steel (1990), My
Girl (1991), Forever Young (1992), The Tailor of Panama (2001),
Freaky Friday (2003), Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008), You Again
(2010), Veronica Mars (2014), and Knives Out (2019).
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