Jamie Lee Curtis in the ‘Halloween’ Films Through the Year's [Photos]
Long Before She Was an Oscar-Winning Actress, Jamie Lee Curtis Was Laurie Strode. Just a Young Adult Herself, the Actress First Embodied the Teenage Babysitter...
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Long before she was an Oscar-winning actress, Jamie Lee Curtis was Laurie Strode.
Just a young adult herself, the actress first embodied the teenage babysitter in Halloween in the late '70s, wherein she survives the masked murderer Michael Myers for the first time on All Hallows' Eve. Curtis likely never imagined her fight with Myers would span seven film sequels — including Halloween II (1981), Halloween Resurrection (2002) and Halloween Kills (2021) — let alone culminate 44 years later in a showdown between Laurie and Myers in 2022’s Halloween Ends.
“As I play Laurie for the last time, in Halloween Ends, the final installment of the franchise, I am trying to figure out how to say goodbye to Laurie, who has taught me the meaning of the words ‘resilience,’ ‘loyalty,’ ‘perseverance’ and ‘COURAGE,’ ” Curtis wrote in honor of her character in an exclusive essay for PEOPLE in October 2022. “It's now the end for Laurie and me. I'm weeping as I write this. I'm going to miss her. Movies are make-believe, but this is my real life. Mine has been made better by her.”
With Jamie Lee Curtis' Halloween days behind her, let’s look back at her long-standing legacy in the franchise that made her a horror icon.
Halloween, 1978
Curtis first stepped into the terrified shoes of Laurie at 19 years old in 1978, playing the Halloween "final girl" with gusto.
"What was amazing to me was [it was] an acting part," Curtis told Drew Barrymore at New York Comic Con in October 2022. "She didn't look like me, she didn't dress like me, she didn't think like me. I barely got out of high school. She was like the valedictorian of her class. There was a real opportunity for me to be an actor. I hadn't had that opportunity before. For me, that was incredible."
The movie made $47 million worldwide (against a budget north of $300,000) and earned a permanent spot in pop culture history.
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Halloween II, 1981
Curtis returned to face Myers in the early '80s sequel, which didn't perform as well in theaters but kept the actress' star shining.
"I wouldn't have anything in my life without Laurie Strode," Curtis told Barrymore at New York Comic Con in 2022. "Nothing. I wouldn't have a career. I would not have a family."
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