Deirdre Beaubeirdre: Last News

Angela Bassett did not reign victorious like her character Queen Ramonda from the "Black Panther" franchise at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday. Bassett was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category, but the award was given to Jamie Lee Curtis for her portrayal of Deirdre Beaubeirdre in the critically acclaimed, and Academy Award Best Picture winner, "Everything Everywhere All at Once." During the ceremony, cameras were focused on all five nominees as presenters Ariana DeBose and Troy Kotsur announced Curtis' name, much to her shock.

Jamie Lee Curtis expressed support for the push to de-gender acting categories following her win for Best Supporting Actress at the 2023 Oscars.  «As the mother of a trans daughter, I completely understand,» Curtis said of the question regarding the gendering of Best Actor and Actress categories. «In all the areas, in all the branches...we're not anywhere near there.» Curtis also acknowledged the difficulty of still maintaining opportunities for women while expanding categories to include the larger gender spectrum. «To de-gender the category, I'm also concerned will diminish the opportunities for more women, which is something I have also been working hard to promote,» Curtis said.

Angelique Jackson Jamie Lee Curtis has picked up her first Oscar, winning the best supporting actress trophy for her performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” “I know it looks like I’m standing up here by myself but I am not, I am hundreds of people. I’m hundreds of people. Where are the Daniels?,” she asked in her emotional acceptance speech, continuing to list of all the people who supported her. “Halloween” director John Carpenter was one of the first to congratulate the longtime horror star, tweeting “Congratulations Jamie Lee! You are the bomb!”“To all the people who have supported the genre movies that I’ve made for these years, the thousands and hundreds of thousands of people, we just won an Oscar together!,” she said.

Jamie Lee Curtis won her first Oscar on Sunday night during the 95th Academy Awards. The win comes after the 64-year-old earned the first nomination in her 45-year-long career for her role in . Curtis beat out Angela Bassett (), Hong Chau (), Kerry Condon () and co-star Stephanie Hsu to take home the trophy for Best Supporting Actress. «I know it looks like I'm standing up here by myself, but I am not.

Jamie Lee Curtis is adamant about getting a full night's rest, even if that means sitting out for an Academy Award event.  On Saturday, Curtis, 64, appeared at the Film Independent Spirit Awards where she told the Hollywood Reporter that the Oscars nominees' dinner held on Thursday is too late for her. The "Scream" actress received her Oscar nomination in the best actress in a supporting role category for her role as Deirdre Beaubeirdre in "Everything Everywhere All at Once." "Now you might say, 'Jamie, you're nominated for an Academy Award. You're gonna be in the room with only nominees for the Academy Award,' and I have declined," Curtis told the outlet.

Jamie Lee Curtis showed her support for Greta Thunberg with an Instagram post Tuesday showing the arrest of the Swedish climate activist at a protest in western Germany over industrial expansion impacting villages in its path.The 64-year-old actress posted a news item from The Washington Post detailing the story with an image of the 20-year-old activist being carried by authorities following her arrest. Curtis - who has garnered awards season buzz for her portrayal of Deirdre Beaubeirdre in Everything Everywhere All at Once - has past expressed her support for Thunberg via social media. The latest: Jamie Lee Curtis, 64, showed her support for Greta Thunberg, 20, with an Instagram post Tuesday showing the arrest of the Swedish climate activist at a protest in western Germany over industrial expansion impacting villages in its pathThunberg famously roasted influencer Andrew Tate last month following his arrest -  in connection with human trafficking - which stemmed from evidence of a pizza box shown in a clip he made aimed at her. After Thunberg said, 'this is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes' following Tate's arrest, Curtis said, 'Maybe there is a late night team looking for a new comedy writer.