{"id":674606,"date":"2026-05-30T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T18:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/674606\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T18:56:09","slug":"kelly-curtis-dead-sister-of-jamie-lee-curtis-was-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/674606\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Curtis Dead: Sister of Jamie Lee Curtis Was 69"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tKelly Curtis, an American actress and the sister of Jamie Lee Curtis<\/a>, died on Saturday. She was 69.<\/p>\n

\n\tJamie Lee Curtis announced her older sister\u2019s death in a Facebook post. She wrote<\/a>, \u201cA warm aloha to my older sister, Kelly Lee Curtis. She passed away this morning. In her home. In nature. At peace. She was my first friend and lifelong confidant. 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. She was proud of her Danish roots and Hungarian Jewish ancestry and was a devoted American patriot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe continued, \u201cShe 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. Kelly always signed off any message or fare thee well with a Hungarian blessing\u2026 Isten Veled, God is with you. Isten Veled to my sister of the sun and the moon, my Tai. I\u2019ll see you on down the line.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKelly Curtis appeared alongside her younger sister in the 1983 comedy \u201cTrading Places<\/a>.\u201d She also worked as her assistant on \u201cFreaky Friday,\u201d \u201cChristmas With the Kranks\u201d and \u201cYou Again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCurtis appeared as Lieutenant Carolyn Plummer in the first season of UPN\u2019s action series \u201cThe Sentinel.\u201d She also had one-off roles in shows like \u201cStar Trek: Deep Space Nine,\u201d \u201cThe Equalizer,\u201d \u201cHunter,\u201d \u201cSilk Stalkings,\u201d \u201cLateLine\u201d and \u201cJudging Amy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the film side, Curtis starred in the 1987 comedy \u201cMagic Sticks\u201d and the 1990 TV movie \u201cThanksgiving Day,\u201d which also featured Mary Tyler Moore. Her other film credits include \u201cFalse Arrest\u201d and \u201cThe Sect.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCurtis\u2019 most recent work was as director of a pair of documentaries. The first, 2018\u2019s \u201cMarby Jets Are Go,\u201d chronicled the ups and downs of an Australian high school track team. The second, 2019\u2019s \u201cCurling in Stanley,\u201d captured the first-ever \u201cSawtooth Outdoor Bonspiel\u201d curling tournament in Stanley, Idaho.<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn in Santa Monica in 1956, Curtis\u2019 big screen debut was in the 1958 action-adventure film \u201cThe Vikings,\u201d which starred her parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelly Curtis, an American actress and the sister of Jamie Lee Curtis, died on Saturday. She was 69.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,20055,294221],"class_list":["post-674606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-jamie-lee-curtis","tag-trading-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}