Random Delightful Things You Didn't Know About Jamie Lee Curtis (20 items)

(#7) Her Legs Were Insured

Jamie Lee Curtis is known for her tall, athletic physique. And in the '90s, that physique paid off well beyond the silver screen. Pantyhose company L'eggs made Curtis the star of their ad campaign, and her stems became a precious commodity.

At the time, Curtis's legs were insured for $1 million.
(#3) She Is Married To Christopher Guest

Jamie Lee Curtis may be an artist in her own right, but she also married one. Curtis married Christopher Guest in 1984, the same year he starred in the hit mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap.

More interestingly, Curtis picked her husband out of a magazine. As Guest tells it:

There were pictures in Rolling Stone magazine in 1984. One of me as Nigel Tufnel and one of me as me. And that was the one where she said to her friend, "I'm going to marry that guy."

So, she's also true to her word.
(#1) She Carried On Her Mom's Horror Film Legacy

Well-known for her horror roles in the '70s and '80s, Jamie Lee Curtis didn't come by her "Scream Queen" nickname accidentally. Curtis was born into an established Hollywood family, and her mother, Janet Leigh, played one of cinema's most iconic film characters: Marion Crane in Psycho.

Curtis inherited Leigh's talent for terror and went on to make a name for herself as the star of the Halloween franchise. Recently, she re-created her mother's iconic Psycho scene for the television show Scream Queens, bringing things full circle.
(#14) She Started Her Own Production Company In 1981

After her success in 1978's Halloween, Curtis struggled to find work. As a result, in 1981, Curtis, her sister Kelly Lee Curtis, and her mother Janet Leigh, started their own production company called Generation Productions.

Generation Productions was inspired by John Carpenter's Whitebread Productions, which he created for the purpose developing his own feature films. Curtis was also heavily influenced by Debra Hill who, at that point, had already distributed several films via her own production company.

The point of Generation Productions was to write scripts that Curtis and her mother could star in together. Unfortunately, no such project came to fruition.
(#6) She And Her Husband Have Titles, But They're Chill About It

Jamie Lee Curtis, whose husband, Christopher Guest, is the 5th Baron Haden-Guest, is technically royalty. When Guest's father died, the couple inherited the titles. Formally, she is known as Baroness Haden-Guest. But the couple don't let it go to their heads.

As Guest, the lord of his family's manor, told The Guardian: "I'm Lord Haden-Guest. And yes, that's a novelty. Born into it by accident, obviously. And then your dad dies and you're the next one."
(#2) She's Jake Gyllenhaal's Godmother

Jake Gyllenhaal is blessed not only with great hair, great looks, and an impressively difficult-to-spell name, he's also got one of the coolest godmothers on earth. Jamie Lee Curtis, who remains close friends with Gyllenhaal's parents, Stephen and Naomi, holds that honor.

Though she may seem larger than life, Curtis is no fairy godmother. She told Entertainment Weekly that "when [Gyllenhaal] actually started show business, I said, 'Look, I'm your celebrity godmother.'"