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American actress (born 1956)

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Kelly Lee Curtis (born June 17, 1956)^[2] is an American actress. She is known for her roles in Magic Sticks (1987) and The Devil's Daughter (1991).

Early life

Kelly Curtis was born in Santa Monica, California, the oldest child of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Her younger sister is actress Jamie Lee Curtis. Her paternal grandparents were Hungarian-Jewish immigrants^[3] and two of her maternal great-grandparents were Danish.^[4] The rest of her mother’s ancestry is German and Scots-Irish. She has four half-siblings, from her father's remarriages, Alexandra Curtis; Allegra Curtis; Nicholas Curtis, who died of a drug overdose;^[5] and Benjamin Curtis.^{[citation needed]}

Curtis' first appearance on the silver screen was as a young girl in the United Artists action/adventu Nicholas curtis!