The triumph of Jamie Lee Curtis, the scream queen at the Oscars that her parents never achieved

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The daughter of two legendary actors,

is a part of Hollywood royalty and has established herself as a must-have actress, as comfortable in horror movies as she is in a

.

But at 64, she already saw the possibility of winning an Oscar as far off, and even less so with a film and a role as singular as that of tax auditor Deirdre Beaubeirdre in the crazy comedy All at once and

"I know it seems like I'm alone [on stage], but I'm not,

," she said upon receiving her statuette.

After more than 40 years of career in Hollywood, the artist definitely surpasses her famous parents, Janet Leigh ("Psycho") and Tony Curtis ("Fuga in Chains"), nominated but never Oscar-winning.

In winning the Oscar, Curtis edged out Golden Globe winner and favorite

(

), who fit in as best she could without the Oscar, Kerry Condon ("The Banshees of Inisherin"), Hong Chau ("The Whale") and her own co-star Hsu.

In

, Curtis is the only leading actress not of Asian origin and one of four Academy Award nominees along with Yeoh, fellow Academy Award

Stephanie Hsu, who was also competing in the best supporting actress category.

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"To all the people who have supported the genre films I've made over the years, to those thousands and hundreds of thousands of people, we just

" added the actress, who broke down in tears. on the stage.

"And both

have been nominated for Oscars in different categories," continued the daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.

"I just won an Oscar!" she seemed to tell them, crying and raising her arms to heaven.

Throughout the film, as Deirdre recounts all the mistakes Evelyn has made with her taxes, the characters find themselves embroiled in an epic battle across multiple universes to save humanity from a powerful villain.

Nicknamed "The Body" for her slender physique, Curtis subverts that image in this film by playing a potbellied Deirdre, sporting unkempt hair, a mustard turtleneck, and a lemon yellow vest.

"I've been

, when you start to be boy and body conscious and put on super skinny jeans," she wrote on Instagram in 2022.

"I decided very specifically to give that up and release every muscle I had that I used to clench to hide reality. That was my goal. I've never felt more creatively and physically free."

In the movie, his tax management agent has

, growing hot dog fingers and ending up in-universe as Yeoh's mistress.

She is an unconventional and no-holds-barred interpretation of someone who has been acting since her teens.

"I loved Deirdre because I know how lonely and forgotten she is. I understood what's going on inside of her," Curtis told The Washington Post.

Her film debut was as the heroine Laurie Strode in the 1978 horror film

," a blockbuster that would spawn multiple sequels and for which she was considered the scream queen of her day.

Producer Debra Hill has admitted she hired Curtis because her mother had starred in Hitchcock's "Psycho," in which she was killed by Norman Bates in the infamous shower scene.

Curtis has embodied dozens of film and television roles, from the 1983 comedy "From Pauper to a Millionaire" with Eddie Murphy, to 1988's "Wanda's Entanglements" opposite Kevin Kline, to 1994's "True Lies" with Schwarzenegger and the television series "Scream Queens".

Recently, he appeared in the mystery film saga "Between Knives and Secrets."

In 2003, she starred opposite Lindsay Lohan in a popular remake of "Crazy Friday," in which the bodies of mother and daughter are magically swapped.

Curtis has said that there could be a sequel.

Curtis has been married since 1984 to Oscar-nominated actor, director and screenwriter Christopher Guest ("This Is Spinal Tap").

The couple have two children, Annie and Ruby.

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