Editing Jamie Lee Curtis (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Janet Leigh with Jamie Lee Curtis, 1960.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Curtis as a baby with [[Janet Leigh|her mother]] in 1960]]
Jamie Lee Curtis was born in [[Santa Monica, California]], on November 22, 1958, to actors [[Janet Leigh]] (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; 1927–2004) and [[Tony Curtis]] (born Bernard Schwartz; 1925–2010). Her mother was of Danish, German, and [[Scotch-Irish Americans|Scotch-Irish]] descent.<ref>''There/Hollywood'', page 6, 1985, by Janet Leigh</ref> Her father was Jewish, a son of emigrants from [[Mátészalka]], Hungary.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rd.com/content/jamie-lee-curtis-interview/1/ |title=Jamie Lee Curtis Interview: Starring as Herself: Embracing Reality |work=[[Reader's Digest]] |access-date=October 17, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013071807/http://rd.com/content/jamie-lee-curtis-interview/1/ |archive-date=October 13, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> She has an older sister, actress [[Kelly Curtis]] (born 1956), and four half-siblings from her father's later marriages: Alexandra, actress [[Allegra Curtis]] (born 1966), Benjamin, and Nicholas (who died of a drug overdose in 1994).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/848347%7C148433/tony-curtis#family-companions |title=Family for Tony Curtis |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |access-date=August 29, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802052921/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/848347%7C148433/Tony-Curtis/family.html |archive-date=August 2, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Curtis's parents divorced in 1962. She has stated that, after the divorce, her father was "not around" and that he was "not interested in being a father".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Casablanca |first1=Ted |title=Source: Jamie Lee Curtis Written Out of Father's Will |url=https://www.eonline.com/news/207198/source-jamie-lee-curtis-written-out-of-father-s-will |publisher=[[E!]] |access-date=October 8, 2018 |date=October 22, 2010 |archive-date=October 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009013301/https://www.eonline.com/news/207198/source-jamie-lee-curtis-written-out-of-father-s-will |url-status=live}}</ref> After her father's death, she learned that she and her siblings had all been cut out of his will.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tony Curtis's Daughter Speaks Out About Disinheritance |url=https://www.insideedition.com/headlines/3025-tony-curtiss-daughter-speaks-out-about-disinheritance |work=[[Inside Edition]] |access-date=October 8, 2018 |date=September 12, 2011 |archive-date=October 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009052803/https://www.insideedition.com/headlines/3025-tony-curtiss-daughter-speaks-out-about-disinheritance |url-status=live}}</ref> Her mother married stockbroker Robert Brandt, who helped raise her.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |last=Grant |first=Meg |title=Jamie Lee Curtis Is Making Up for Lost Time |work=AARP |url=https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/celebrities/info-2021/jamie-lee-curtis.html |access-date=October 3, 2021 |publisher=[[AARP]] |date=July 28, 2021 |archive-date=October 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211011203834/https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/celebrities/info-2021/jamie-lee-curtis.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Curtis attended the elite [[Harvard-Westlake School]] and [[Beverly Hills High School]] in Los Angeles, and graduated in 1976 from [[Choate Rosemary Hall]] in [[Wallingford, Connecticut]].<ref>{{cite web |first=David |last=Grove |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a1ljDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT37 |title=Jamie Lee Curtis: Scream Queen |publisher=BearManor Media |date=September 20, 2010 |accessdate=October 2, 2021 |archive-date=March 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230316183654/https://books.google.com/books?id=a1ljDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT37 |url-status=live}}</ref> Returning to California in 1976, she studied law at her mother's alma mater—[[University of the Pacific (United States)|University of the Pacific]] in [[Stockton, California]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-08-04-8801200264-story.html |title=The Candid Unwinding of Jamie Lee Curtis |date=August 4, 1988 |last=Carr |first=Jay |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |access-date=November 30, 2019 |archive-date=December 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222151137/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-08-04-8801200264-story.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/a22993869/jamie-lee-curtis-confidence-secrets/ |title=Jamie Lee Curtis Spills Her Inspiring Confidence Secrets |date=September 6, 2018 |last=Spencer |first=Amy |magazine=[[Good Housekeeping]] |access-date=November 30, 2019 |archive-date=December 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222151148/https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/a22993869/jamie-lee-curtis-confidence-secrets/ |url-status=live}}</ref>—but dropped out after one semester to pursue an acting career.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://people.com/archive/cover-story-making-a-splash-vol-42-no-8/ |title=Making a Splash |last=Chin |first=Paula |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] |date=August 22, 1994 |access-date=November 30, 2019 |archive-date=November 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191108062607/https://people.com/archive/cover-story-making-a-splash-vol-42-no-8/ |url-status=live}}</ref>