This Day in Halloween: Oscar-winning "Scream Queen" Jamie Lee Curtis is born in Santa Monica, California in 1958. / Illustration by Whitney McGaw
Jamie Lee Curtis is born in Santa Monica, California in 1958. The Oscar-winning actress and daughter of Psycho star Janet Leigh was nicknamed a “Scream Queen” for her roles in a series of late 1970s-early 1980s slasher films beginning with Halloween in 1978.
