Jamie Lee Curtis

Award-Winning Actress & Best-Selling Author

Jamie Lee Curtis

Award-Winning Actress & Best-Selling Author

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Biography

Jamie Lee Curtis is a film and television actress with starring roles in such acclaimed films as Halloween, Freaky Friday, True Lies, Trading Places, and A Fish Called Wanda.

In television, Curtis co-starred opposite Richard Lewis in the sitcom Anything but Love. She also performed in the title role in TNT’s adaptation of Wendy Wasserstein’s play “The Heidi Chronicles” and in the CBS telefilm Nicholas’ Gift. She most recently appeared as Mark Harmon’s lover, “Dr. Samantha Ryan,” on NCIS and as Zooey Deschanel’s mother on New Girl.

Curtis is the best-selling author of ten children’s books, with over 5 million copies in print. In addition to her most recent New York Times bestseller, My Brave Year of Firsts, she authored My Mommy Hung the Moon: A Love Story; 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.

A recovering alcoholic/addict, Curtis is 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 as well on the Advisory Boards of CAAF (The Children Affected by Aids Foundation) and The Starlight/Starbright Foundation. She is currently serving on the Board of Trustees at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

She is married to Christopher Guest and is the proud mother of Anne Lee Haden Guest, 26, and Thomas Lee Haden Guest, 17.

She can hit a mean tennis and golf ball and is known to organize a closet or two, invited or not.

She is currently seeking a recovery program for that.

Speaker Videos

Two Gold Nuggets for Life

Speech Topics

Building Self-Esteem in Children

Appreciating the Beauty of Getting Older

A Call to Action: My Reflection on Sobriety

Testimonials

"Thank you for bringing us Jamie Lee Curtis, a phenomenal keynote speaker who made profound impressions on our audience. She delivered a powerful message, unique to her individual experience, yet also perfectly suited to the spirit and mission of NSBA’s annual conference programming. For years now, we have been able to rely upon American Programs Bureau for top-notch speaker suggestions and superlative customer service. Thank you again for the very significant role you play in our success. I hope that we will be working together for years to come."

- National School Boards Association

"It was a wonderful, busy day, and we absolutely adore Jamie!! She's fantastic to work with and so, so friendly... We could not be more impressed. Both presentations went very well and many people have said she is our best Women's Health Forum speaker ever! Thanks so much for everything!!"

- INTEGRIS Health

"We thank her for what was a truly most compelling and inspiring keynote address at the Tuesday general session of NSBA’s annual conference in San Francisco. She imparted a vital message to our membership, and effectively so, with charming candor and self-effacing humor. Our audience came away from the session motivated to take renewed responsibility for their lives and their work, to seek out bold opportunities, to make a difference, and to be agents of change in their communities and our world."

- National School Boards Association