Who Is Jamie Lee Curtis’ Husband? All About Her Marriage To Christopher Guest

It feels like Jamie Lee Curtis has been in the spotlight her whole life. The youngest daughter of tinseltown royalty, Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, Jamie Lee began acting professionally when she was a teenager and made her own name in Hollywood in the 1970s and ‘80s as film’s reigning “scream queen” thanks to John Carpenter-directed classics Halloween and The Fog. In the decades since, Curtis’ career has expanded far beyond the horror genre with popular films like Trading Places, My Girl, True Lies, Freaky Friday and Knives Out. In the past couple years, the actress took home an Emmy for her guest-star turn on Hulu’s The Bear and an Academy Award for her supporting work in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Curtis will no doubt be back on red carpets this award season promoting her latest film, Gia Coppola’s critically acclaimed The Last Showgirl, co-starring Pamela Anderson, Dave Bautista, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka, Billie Lourd and Jason Schwartzman. And on her arm through it all will surely be her longtime spouse Christopher Guest, a pop-culture icon in his own right, thanks to classic comedy mockumentaries like Waiting For Guffman, Best in Show and This Is Spinal Tap (with Tap's long-awaited sequel expected to be released next year). With the power couple both back in the spotlight, let’s take a stroll down memory lane and look back on Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest's decades-spanning romance.

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Who is Jamie Lee Curtis’ husband, Christopher Guest?

For four decades, Jamie Lee Curtis has been married to British-American actor, comedian, screenwriter and director Christopher Guest. The 76-year-old gent is known for writing, directing and starring in a series of mockumentary-style comedy classics, including This Is Spinal Tap (1984), Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), For Your Consideration (2006), and Mascots (2016). Guest will reprise his iconic role as Nigel Tufnel in the upcoming This is Spinal Tap sequel, which will reunite him with director Rob Reiner and actors Michael McKean and Harry Shearer. And like his illustrious wife, Guest has won plenty of awards over the years, including a Primetime Emmy Award for writing The Lily Tomlin Special in 1976 as well as a Grammy for A Mighty Wind’s soundtrack in 2004.

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How did Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest meet?

Curtis and Guest reportedly met when the actress called her future hubby’s agent for his number after spotting a photo of him in a magazine. “I was with the writer of the original Halloween when I saw my husband of 37 years for the first time,” Curtis told People. “Debra Hill and I were on my couch in West Hollywood in 1984. I opened up an issue of Rolling Stone, saw Christopher Guest in a Spinal Tap story and said, ‘I’m gonna marry that guy.’ (I did, six months later).”

Weeks later, she saw Guest across a restaurant called Hugo’s in West Hollywood; he called her the next day. “On July 2, Chris and I had our first date at Chianti Ristorante on Melrose,” she shared with the outlet. “And by August 8, when he left to tape a year of Saturday Night Live in New York City, we’d fell in love.”

When did Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest get married?

Jamie Lee and Christopher were wed on Dec. 18, 1984 at the home of mutual friend Rob Reiner after a whirlwind six-month courtship. Of their union, Curtis revealed to Oprah.com: “Chris and I have a wonderful, complicated, imperfect life. And a very real marriage. I'll never know why I thought we'd understand each other when I saw his photograph. Hidden in that smirk, I think, was a little secret that only I knew.”

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How many kids do Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest have?

Curtis and Guest share two daughters through adoption: Annie, born in 1986, and Ruby, born in 1996. (Fun fact: Jamie Lee is also the godmother of Jake Gyllenhaal!) The couple decided to pursue adoption after struggling with infertility issues. “Adoption was the only way for us to have a family,” she told Pact's Point of View. “It becomes the viable option for you. If you want to be a family, that's how you're going to be it.”

Younger daughter Ruby came out as transgender in 2020 and shared to People that she wasn’t worried about coming out to her parents: “They had been so accepting of me my entire life.” During an interview on Morning Joe, Curtis shared: “Being a parent is about love, and I love Ruby. Love her. And people have said, ‘You’re so great to accept her love.’ What are you talking about? This is my daughter—this human being has come to me and said, ‘This is who I am.’ And my job is to say, ‘Welcome home.’ I will fight and defend her right to exist to anyone who claims that she doesn’t. And there are those people.” In May 2022, Curtis officiated Ruby’s wedding to her partner Kynthia.

Have Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest been in a movie together?

Despite being two of the most beloved figures in show business, Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest have actually never starred together in a film. The actress has said that she and her husband have very different tastes, telling Good Housekeeping in 2018: “We don’t listen to the same radio station, we don’t read the same paper, we don’t go to bed at the same time.”

However, they do read the same history books. “For our 30th anniversary, we both read a book called Undaunted Courage, [which is] the story of [explorers] Lewis and Clark. Then we took eight friends and retraced a section of the Missouri River in canoes that followed the path of their expedition. We’re a little nerdy.” Maybe a historical flick is in their future? We’d watch it!

Does Jamie Lee Curtis have a royal title?

Yes, technically. In April 1996, her husband Christopher Guest inherited the title Baron Haden-Guest when his father died. As the wife of a hereditary peer, Curtis is considered a baroness, with her title styled as The Lady Haden-Guest. However, Curtis does not use the title, telling Architectural Digest: “It has nothing to do with me.”

What is Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest’s net worth?

Combined, the couple has a reported net worth of $60 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. That hefty figure spans both performers’ film work, as well as Jamie Lee’s successful series of children’s books and brand endorsements. The pair own a Spanish Colonial revival home in Santa Monica, California, that’s reportedly worth a cool $2.2 million.

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