Jamie Lee Curtis

"Children are paparazzi. They take your picture with their minds when you don’t want them to see you at your worst. Trust me they see and hear everything.”

How She Empowers Others

Jamie Lee Curtis is a film 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.

Ms. Curtis is also an author of best-selling children's books.  In addition to her most recent and seventh book, the New York Times Bestseller, Is There Really A Human Race?, she is the author of 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, all of which bestsellers, adding up to over three million books sold.

Ms. Curtis is also an AIDS activist and has a deep and active connection to many children's charities including, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and Children's Hospital of Los Angeles as well as being the official spokesperson for CAAF (The Children Affected by Aids Foundation) and on whose Executive Advisory Board she is a serving member and The Starlight/Starbright Foundation.   Ms. Curtis is a recovering alcoholic/addict and is honored to serve on the Board of Directors of CASA (The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University).  She is the mother of Annie, age 20 and Thomas, age 11 and has been married for 22 years to actor/director Christopher Guest.