Jamie Lee Curtis House and Details on Jamie Lee Curtis Family

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Jamie Lee Curtis House: Inside Her Santa Monica Estate and More!

Sarah Paschall

Updated on March 16, 2023

Jamie Lee Curtis purchased her Santa Monica estate back in 1992 and still lives there today.
Curtis is the daughter of famed actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis.
Jamie Lee Curtis has been married to actor Christopher Guest since 1984.
Curtis and Guest have two adopted daughters.
Jamie Lee Curtis took home her first Oscar in 2023.

Jamie Lee Curtis Haden-Guest is an actress, children’s book author, and producer best known for role as an iconic scream queen in the Halloween franchise and several other horror films that followed. Curtis first came to prominence with her role as Barbara Duran on the sitcom Operation Petticoat (1977-1978), but her major break came in the form of her role as Laurie Strode on the John Carpenter slasher flick Halloween (1978). Following this, Curtis would go on to star in a variety of different genres over the years, becoming a truly versatile actress and household name in the entertainment industry. If you’ve ever wondered where a Hollywood icon like Jamie stays when she’s not busy on the set of her next project, Velvet Ropes has all the deets for your viewing pleasure here. Keep reading for the full scoop!

Where Does Jamie Lee Curtis Live?

Jamie Lee Curtis and her husband have lived in the same home for the vast majority of their lives together! The couple purchased their Spanish Colonial revival home back in 1992 and spent decades making it into their dream house. More on the Jamie Lee Curtis home below!

Jamie Lee Curtis House Santa Monica (Current)

Jamie Lee Curtis and husband, Christopher Guest, purchased this stunning Spanish Colonial Revival around 3 decades ago in 1992. Since then, they have turned the place into their own private paradise!

Where Does Jamie Lee Curtis Live? — Mary E. Nichols

According to the couple, the home needed quite a bit of TLC when they first took ownership. Much of the interior, including the kitchen, had not been remodeled or even worked on since it was built…in 1929!

The pair teamed up with architect, Michael B. Lehere, to work on the dated home. It took 2 massive renovations to transform it into the home you see today!

Some of the renovations included an overhaul on the kitchen (of course!) as well as the addition of more bedrooms and bathrooms. Today, what was once only a 2-bedroom home is now 5 beds and 4 baths!

They also added a spacious pantry with gorgeous shoji-inspired doors.

Today, the couple still reside in their 4,108 square foot residence with apparently no plans of moving anytime soon.

Jamie Lee Curtis Net Worth

How much is Jamie Lee Curtis worth, you ask? The longtime actress has reportedly amassed an impressive net worth of $60 million as of 2023!

Jamie Lee Curtis Movies

Jamie Lee Curtis has a whopping 80 acting credits to her name, with more in the works, but her most memorable projects include:

The Halloween franchise (1978-2022)
Trading Places (1983)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Blue Steel (1990)
My Girl (1991)
Forever Young (1992)
True Lies (1994)
Homegrown (1998)
Drowning Mona (2000)
Freaky Friday (2003)
Scream Queens (2015-2016)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Jamie Lee Curtis Everything Everywhere All at Once

Jamie Lee Curtis plays a character by the name of Deirdre Beaubeidre in the film Everything Everywhere All at Once. The sci-fi adventure was so successful that it received an astounding 11 Oscar noms at the 2023 Academy Awards – taking home 7 of those awards!

Jamie Lee Curtis Movies — Everett Collection

One of those little gold statues, specifically the one for Best Supporting Actress, went to Jamie Lee Curtis. Amazingly, this is Jamie’s FIRST OSCAR! Seriously, you’d think she would’ve been recognized ages ago, but it’s far from the first time legends have been overlooked.

Curtis’ teary acceptance speech, in which she briefly speaks to her late parents, had audiences everywhere feeling like they just cut onions. So. Many. Onions.

Jamie Lee Curtis Age

So, how old is Jamie Lee Curtis? The actress was born November 22, 1958 – making her currently 64 years young as of the writing of this article.

Jamie Lee Curtis Young

As a young woman, Jamie Lee Curtis attended Harvard-Westlake School, Beverly Hills High School in L.A, and graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1976. She would go on to study law at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA but dropped out after a single semester to pursue her career as an actress.

Jamie Lee Curtis Family

Jamie Lee Curtis is an absolute legend in Hollywood, but she’s not the only famous person in her family! Check out all the deets on Jamie Lee Curtis’ family below!

Jamie Lee Curtis Mom

Jamie Lee Curtis’ mother was actress, singer, and author Jeanette Helen Morrison, known professionally as Janet Leigh. While Leigh starred in several films throughout the late 1940s and beyond, her most successful role was that of Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Psycho (1960).

Janet passed away in 2004 at the age of 77 from vasculitis or inflammation of the blood vessels. At the time of her death, Janet had a 85 acting credits to her name – one of which included an appearance in Jamie’s film Halloween H20: 20 Years Later in 1998.

Jamie Lee Curtis Dad

Jamie Lee Curtis’ father was actor, Tony Curtis. Tony had over 100 acting credits and a career that spanned 6 decades prior to his death at age 85 in 2010 from a cardiac arrest.

Some of Tony Curtis’ most recognized projects included Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Some Like it Hot (1959), and Spartacus (1960).

Tony was married to Janet Leigh for 12 years before filing for divorce in 1962 when Jamie was only 3 years old. Jamie’s mother, Janet, discovered Tony’s divorce filings while away on a film set. At the time, Tony’s reason for divorce was that he reportedly had fallen for a co-star – 17-year-old German actress, Christine Kaufmann.

Following the divorce, Jamie Lee states that her father had very little to do with her and her older sister. The girls would even discover that they had been completely cut out of his will.

Despite their rocky relationship, Jamie Lee continues to keep both her father and mother’s legacies alive. In the past, when speaking on her parents’ relationship, Jamie has said that she takes comfort in knowing she was “born from love and not resentment.”

Jamie Lee Curtis Husband

Jamie Lee Curtis has been married to director and actor, Christopher Guest, since 1984! Christopher Guest has appeared in nearly 100 different films and shows over the years, but his most memorable project to date is the 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap!

Before Curtis had even met Guest face-to-face, she apparently knew they were meant to be. At the time, she and Guest were both enjoying career success – with Curtis having already starred in Halloween and Guest in the Spinal Tap film.

On this specific occasion, Curtis and Halloween co-writer, Debra Hill, were flipping through a magazine together when Jamie noticed Guest in a photo alongside his Spinal Tap cast members. It was here that Jamie told her friend “I’m going to marry that man.”

Hill actually passed her friend’s phone number to Guest’s agent at the time, but Guest never called. Jamie Lee Curtis went on to briefly date someone else, but the relationship just wasn’t right for her, according to Curtis.

While grabbing lunch at a local Hollywood restaurant one day, however, Jamie Lee Curtis spotted her future husband-to-be sitting only 3 tables away. Suddenly, as Curtis puts it:

“I glanced up and found myself staring straight at Chris, three tables away. He waved to me as if to say, ‘I’m the guy you called.’ I waved back: ‘I’m the woman who called you.’ A few minutes later, he got up to leave. Standing 20 feet away, he shrugged his shoulders and put up his hand as if to say, ‘I’ll see ya’.”

Guest would call Curtis the following day and within months of the chance meeting, the pair were wed.

Jamie Lee Curtis Children

So, how many children does Jamie Lee Curtis have? The veteran actress shares two adopted children, Annie and Ruby, with her husband, Christopher Guest. Annie was adopted in 1986 and the couple would adopt Ruby in 1996.

In 2020, Ruby had announced to her parents that she was transgender. When speaking about the life-changing event, Jamie Lee said:

“It’s speaking a new language. It’s learning new terminology and words. I am new at it. I am not someone who is pretending to know much about it. And I’m going to blow it, I’m going to make mistakes. I would like to try to avoid making big mistakes.”

“But if one person reads this, sees a picture of Ruby and me and says, ‘I feel free to say this is who I am,’ then it’s worth it.”