LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Scream Queen” Jamie Lee Curtis shall be this 12 months’s recipient of AARP The Journal’s Motion pictures for Grownups Awards profession achievement honor.
Curtis will obtain the dignity on the AARP’s annual Finest Motion pictures and TV for Grownups ceremony, the group introduced Thursday. Alan Cumming returns to host the ceremony, which shall be telecast on “Nice Performances” on PBS on Feb. 17 at 9 p.m. Japanese.
“Jamie Lee Curtis’ longstanding, ever-increasing profession shatters Hollywood’s outmoded stereotypes about getting old, and it exemplifies what AARP’s Motion pictures for Grownups program is all about,” AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins stated in an announcement.
Since getting into the function of Laurie Strode in “Halloween” in 1978, the 64-year-old horror queen starred in her final installment of the slasher collection “Halloween Ends,” and the blockbuster indie movie, “All the pieces In all places All at As soon as” this 12 months.
“We’re delighted to honor Curtis, who at 19 grew to become an iconic ‘scream queen’ in ‘Halloween,’ then grew as much as be a grasp in comedian and dramatic roles, too,” Jenkins stated.
Curtis, whose different credit embrace, “True Lies,” “A Fish Referred to as Wanda,” “Freaky Friday,” “Knives Out” and the tv collection “Scream Queens,” is an Emmy nominee and a British Academy Movie Award winner. Her movies have, over her four-decade-long profession, earned $2.5 billion on the field workplace, the assertion stated.
The AARP’s Motion pictures for Grownups program champions films that resonate with viewers 50 and over, and fights ageism within the leisure trade. Earlier honorees embrace Lily Tomlin, George Clooney, Annette Bening, Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro and Michael Douglas.