Jamie Lee Curtis didn't need any introduction to anybody by the time the 80s started; she'd been made a star by playing Lori strode in 1978's 'Halloween,' and since then she'd been expanding on the performance in a variety of other horror movies. If the 1980s had a scream queen, it was definitely Curtis.
Such was the success of 'Halloween' that a sequel was inevitable, and so it came to pass. Other 80s highlights for her included 'Prom Night, 'The Fog' and 'Terror Train,' as well as picking up a Golden Globe. Noted film critic Roger Ebert once observed that Curtis was to 1980's horror movies what Boris Karloff to those of the 1930's; the sole survivor, and the constant thread. The work may have seen her typecast for life, but there are worse things to be known for.