# What is the best Jamie Lee Curtis movie?

> Slasher survivor, action-comedy spouse, body-swap mom: a surprisingly wide filmography. Scream-queen classics face late-career awards bait.

*By YPB Team · Published October 23, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-jamie-lee-curtis-movie*

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1. **Halloween**
   The 1978 slasher classic that launched Laurie Strode and made Curtis a scream queen.
2. **Trading Places**
   The 1983 comedy with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd in which Curtis plays Ophelia.
3. **A Fish Called Wanda**
   The 1988 heist comedy that earned Curtis a BAFTA nomination.
4. **True Lies**
   James Cameron's 1994 action comedy with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
5. **Freaky Friday**
   The 2003 body-swap comedy with Lindsay Lohan.
6. **Knives Out**
   The 2019 whodunit with Daniel Craig in which Curtis plays Linda Drysdale.
7. **Everything Everywhere All at Once**
   The 2022 multiverse film that won Curtis her Academy Award.
8. **Halloween Kills**
   The 2021 sequel with Laurie Strode as the town's hero.
9. **Halloween H20: 20 Years Later**
   The 1998 sequel that brought Curtis back to the franchise.
10. **Fierce Creatures**
   The 1997 comedy reuniting the cast of A Fish Called Wanda.
11. **My Girl**
   The 1991 coming-of-age drama starring Anna Chlumsky and Macaulay Culkin.
12. **Blue Steel**
   The 1990 thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow in which Curtis plays a rookie cop.
13. **The Fog**
   John Carpenter's 1980 ghost story with her mother Janet Leigh.
14. **Prom Night**
   The 1980 slasher in which Curtis plays a teen.
15. **Terror Train**
   The 1980 slasher aboard a party train.
16. **Halloween (2018)**
   The 2018 direct sequel that ignored every film after the original.

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