From Scream Queen to Award Winner: Jamie Lee Curtis on Aging and Reinvention

Jamie Lee Curtis found great success in her early years — but despite all her fame and fortune built on “Halloween” and other hits like “Trading Places” and “True Lies,” she’s happier now than ever!

The daughter of famous parents Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee may have been a nepo baby before the term was even coined, but she paved her own way with her talent — which has only continued to grow.

At age 66, Jamie Lee is busier than ever before, and her ability to reinvent herself as a deft character actress has won her accolades she never received in her younger days — including an Oscar and an Emmy!

“I’ve done some awful movies, and I’ve done some stupid things,” Jamie Lee admits.

“But I’m also patient. That to me is the beauty of being older. I’ve been patient long enough. I’ve suited up and shown up for anything I do long enough with the hope always that there would be an opportunity to do my thing.”

More awards could be ahead: Jamie Lee is getting rave reviews for her role as a hitwoman on the limited series “The Sticky” and she plays a dancer turned waitress in the new film “The Last Showgirl.”

In addition, Jamie Lee is in negotiations to play Jessica Fletcher, the beloved character portrayed by the late Angela Lansbury, in a reboot of “Murder, She Wrote.”

Jamie Lee is also wearing a producer’s hat, handing the lead role of maple syrup farmer Ruth Landry to veteran actress Margo Martindale and producing “Scarpetta,” a Prime Video series based on best-selling author Patricia Cornwell’s Virginia medical examiner, who’ll be played by Nicole Kidman.

Noting she’s in the most “creative time” of her life, Jamie Lee has also penned nearly a dozen children’s books.

And she’s definitely not afraid of aging.

“I’m very much in acceptance of what I look like, and I own what I think and feel,” she says. “And that, to me, is what maturity is. I mean what I say. I try not to say it mean. And that’s a way then to grow into my old age.

“My goal in life now as an old lady is just to say, ‘Relax, you are enough. You are enough. This is a perfect moment right now.’ ”