Jamie Lee Curtis was born on 22 November 1958, in Santa Monica, California USA of Hungarian-Jewish (father) and Danish (mother) descent, and is an actress, writer, voice actor and author also known as Lady Haden-Guest. Jamie Lee is the daughter of famous film stars Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, but has made herself known without help through her performances in several notable movies during a career spread over almost 40 years.
So how rich is Jamie Lee Curtis? Jamie Lee’s net worth is estimated by sources to be $35 million, most of her wealth having been accumulated through her acting career, and as an author.
Jamie Lee Curtis Net Worth $35 Million
Jamie Lee actually studied at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California majoring in social work, but dropped out to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, unsurprising given her parentage. Jamie Lee Curtis has proved to herself and the world’s film industry, that success she achieved, has not been because was is a daughter of film stars, but because she is good actress. When she started to appear in movies, Curtis became known as the “scream queen”, because of her roles in several horror movies like “Halloween”(1978), “The Fog”, “Prom Night”, and “Terror Train”(all 1980), in some of them she was acting with her mother, Janet Leigh.
However, The Queen of Screams eventually achieved her fame and wealth because of acting through different styles roles and movies, and besides that she has been a very active person. Jamie Lee has quite a long list of starring movies, which have helped her to gain various BAFTA and Golden Globe awards. Her most successful roles have been in “Trading Places” (1983), also a comic appearance in “A Fish Called Wanda”(1988), the romantic comedy “My Girl”(1991), “True Lies”(1994) in which she is playing the wife of secret agent Arnold Schwarzenegger, also a strong character in “Blue Steel”(1990). Jamie Lee’s most recent films have been Veronica Mars(2014) and Spare Parts(2015): all her roles have added steadily to her net worth, as have her appearances in over 20 TV films and shows.
Jamie Lee Curtis is the author of children`s books too, and in 1988 Jamie Lee`s book “Today I Feel Silly, and Other Moods That Make My Day”, made the best seller list in The New York Times. Some books Curtis co-authored with Laura Cornell, and all have contributed to her net worth.
Additionally, from time-to-time Jamie Lee has appeared in cosmetic advertisements, and currently Curtis is a blogger for the online newspaper, The Huffington Post. In 1987 she was the inventor of a diaper with special moisture poof pockets, which she categorically refused to market until companies started to sell biodegradable diapers. Again, both projects have benefited Jamie Lee Curtis’ net worth.
In her personal life, Jamie Lee married actor Christopher Guest in 1984, and the couple adopted two children Annie and Thomas. After Christopher`s father died, he became Baron Haden-Guest, which automatically elevated Jamie to the title of Lady Haden-Guest. The couple lives in a big house valued over $4 million!
For the moment Jamie Lee Curtis has taken a break from her acting career, and is concentrating more on her charity work. The actress has made a successful career, with ups and downs of course, but therefore she has stayed honest to herself all the time, and hasn’t worried too much about going out without make up!
