“Scream Queen” Jamie Lee Curtis will be this year’s receiver of AARP The Magazine’s Flicks for Grownups Awards job achievement honor.
Curtis will obtain the honor at the AARP’s yearly Very best Films and Tv for Grownups ceremony, the team introduced Thursday. Alan Cumming returns to host the ceremony, which will be telecast on “Great Performances” on PBS on Feb. 17 at 9 p.m. Eastern.
“Jamie Lee Curtis’ longstanding, ever-expanding career shatters Hollywood’s outmoded stereotypes about growing old, and it exemplifies what AARP’s Videos for Grownups method is all about,” AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins claimed in a assertion.
Due to the fact stepping into the job of Laurie Strode in “Halloween” in 1978, the 64-yr-outdated horror queen starred in her very last installment of the slasher collection “Halloween Finishes,” and the blockbuster indie movie, “Everything All over the place All at After” this year.
“We are delighted to honor Curtis, who at 19 grew to become an iconic ‘scream queen’ in ‘Halloween,’ then grew up to be a learn in comic and dramatic roles, far too,” Jenkins said.
Curtis, whose other credits consist of, “True Lies,” “A Fish Called Wanda,” “Freaky Friday,” “Knives Out” and the tv collection “Scream Queens,” is an Emmy nominee and a British Academy Film Award winner. Her films have, about her 4-10 years-long career, earned $2.5 billion at the box place of work, the statement explained.
The AARP’s Videos for Grownups application champions flicks that resonate with viewers 50 and around, and fights ageism in the entertainment industry. Previous honorees contain Lily Tomlin, George Clooney, Annette Bening, Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro and Michael Douglas.
