Jamie Lee Curtis to receive AARP Career Achievement Award

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Scream Queen” Jamie Lee Curtis will probably be this yr’s recipient of AARP The Journal’s Motion pictures for Grownups Awards profession achievement honor.

Curtis will obtain the consideration on the AARP’s annual Greatest Motion pictures and TV for Grownups ceremony, the group introduced Thursday. Alan Cumming returns to host the ceremony, which will probably 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 growing old, and it exemplifies what AARP’s Motion pictures for Grownups program is all about,” AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins mentioned in a press release.

Since moving into the position of Laurie Strode in “Halloween” in 1978, the 64-year-old horror queen starred in her final installment of the slasher sequence “Halloween Ends,” and the blockbuster indie movie, “Every part In all places All at As soon as” this yr.

“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 mentioned.

Curtis, whose different credit embody, “True Lies,” “A Fish Referred to as Wanda,” “Freaky Friday,” “Knives Out” and the tv sequence “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 mentioned.

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 embody Lily Tomlin, George Clooney, Annette Bening, Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro and Michael Douglas.