Los Angeles: Jamie Lee Curtis won the Oscar for best supporting actress for “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once”. She played role of arrogant IRS auditor chasing after a Chinese-American laundromat owner who was trying to finish her taxes.
It was Curtis’s first Oscar nomination in her 45-year career in movies. She began career with the horror film “Halloween.” She was 64 years old at the time. Angela Bassett and Kerry Condon, who were also strong contenders, lost to her.
Two weeks earlier, Curtis had won the same award from the Screen Actors Guild. In her speech, she had said that when she got the call for a “weird” movie and heard that she would be working with lead actress Michelle Yeoh, she was all in.
As the dowdy Internal Revenue Service auditor Deirdre Beaubeirdre, Curtis picks on Yeoh’s character Evelyn in the tax office before the movie explodes into a multiverse action adventure. Yet, in one of the verses, Evelyn and Deidre have fingers that look like hot dogs and become friends while Evelyn tries to convince Deidre that she is loved.
Curtis is the daughter of famous actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. She has joked about calling herself a “nepo baby,” but in Hollywood she is known for not being pretentious.
Some of her most well-known movies are the first “Halloween” in 1978 and its seven sequels. “Trading Places,” “A Fish Called Wanda,” “True Lies,” and “Freaky Friday.”
