Kelly Lee Curtis, sister of Oscar-winning actor Jamie Lee Curtis, died on 30 May at age 69.
A cause of death for the actor and documentarian has not been released.<\/p>\n
Jamie Lee shared a tribute on Instagram and dedicated a “warm aloha to my older sister,” who she said died in her home, “in nature. At peace.”<\/p>\n
“She was my first friend and lifelong confidant,” the A Fish Called Wanda star wrote, sharing a portrait of her sister.<\/p>\n
“She was jaw-droppingly beautiful, and a talented actress. She played a mean game of hearts, collected turtles, loved her family, nature, music, thrifting, travel, Facebook, and Pok\u00e9mon Go.”<\/p>\n
The Everything Everywhere All at Once actor added that her sister, who she described as a “devoted American patriot”, was proud of her Danish roots and Hungarian Jewish ancestry.<\/p>\n
“She will be remembered for her loving generosity, fierce opinions, endless curiosity, unique style, and her powdered, almond, crescent cookies at Christmas, hence her name, Auntie Cookie.”<\/p>\n
She concluded, “Isten Veled to my sister of the sun and the moon, my Tai. I’ll see you on down the line.”<\/p>\n
Kelly Lee was the first daughter of Spartacus actor Tony Curtis and Psycho star Janet Leigh. She had a small role in 1983’s comedy film Trading Places, in which Jamie Lee co-starred, and starred in the 1991 Italian horror film The Devil’s Daughter.<\/p>\n
She later took her passion and talent behind the camera as a documentarian. She also supported her sister as an assistant on several movies, including 2003’s Freaky Friday, and 2010’s You Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelly Lee Curtis, sister of Oscar-winning actor Jamie Lee Curtis, died on 30 May at age 69.A cause…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,230605,156,25946,136233,111,139,69,41405],"class_list":["post-453373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-documentarian","tag-entertainment","tag-jamie-lee-curtis","tag-kelly-lee","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-older-sister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}