Jamie Lee Curtis: Her 10 Best Performances

After hitting it big with the original Halloween, nearly the entirety of that film's creative team reunited on another John Carpenter film just two years later: The Fog. With people like Carpenter, Debra Hill, Dean Cundey, and Tommy Lee Wallace all reuniting on this film, it only made sense to bring back their starlet as well.

After getting immediately typecast after the original Halloween's release as a 'scream queen' and 'final girl' (read: audiences saw her as an innocent good girl), Debra Hill and John Carpenter's script gave Curtis the chance to play wonderfully against type.

Featuring an ensemble cast of great actors like Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins, and Janet Leigh, the burden of being a goody-two-shoes protagonist was lifted off of Curtis' shoulders. Instead, she's merely a supporting character in the role of Elizabeth Solley. Elizabeth has a much looser moral code than audiences were used to seeing from Jamie Lee Curtis characters, with her introduction into the film literally being her meeting and sleeping with Tom Atkin's Nick Castle in a matter of minutes.

In Elizabeth, she gets to play a much more freewheeling character and her apparent joy at this bleeds through. Her screen presence here is infectious, with her very nearly stealing the whole film away from the rest of the excellent cast.