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Thursday, 04 Jun 2026 | 3:25 PM MYTKelly Lee Curtis was the eldest daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, born two years before Jamie Lee Curtis .
Photo: TNSand other television and movie roles, died Saturday. Jamie Lee Curtis mourned her big sister’s death on social media but did not name a cause.
“A warm aloha to my older sister, Kelly Lee Curtis,” Jamie Lee wrote. “She passed away this morning. In her home. In nature.
At peace. ” Kelly Lee was the eldest daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, born two years before Jamie Lee, who is 67. She died in Bellevue, Idaho, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“She was my first friend and lifelong confidant,” Jamie Lee wrote. “She was jaw droppingly beautiful, and a talented actress. ” From playing “a mean game of hearts,” to collecting turtles, Kelly Lee loved nature, music, travel and Pokémon Go, among other things, including her family, Jamie Lee wrote.
“She was proud of her Danish roots and Hungarian Jewish ancestry and was a devoted American patriot. ” , an adventure film starring her parents in which she had an uncredited role. In 1983 she had a role inShe starred in two foreign films, the 1987 German comedy moviea 1991 Italian horror film.
Back Stateside, Kelly Lee played Lieutenant Carolyn Plummer in a recurring role during the first season ofSilk Stalkings, Star Trek: Deep Space NineBefore turning to show biz, she was a stockbroker briefly after graduating from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, with a business degree. A member of The Actors Studio, she began studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and appeared on stage in 1982 inShe also worked with her Oscar-nominated father, whose given name was Bernard Schwartz, to raise funds to restore the historic Dohàny Street Synagogue in Budapest, The Hollywood Reporter noted.
They did this work through the Emanuel Foundation, named after Tony Curtis’s father, Emanuel Schwartz. Besides being big sister to Jamie Lee, Kelly Lee headed a clan of six half-siblings— Alexandra and Allegra, whom their father shared with then-wife Christine Kaufmann, and Nicholas and Ben Curtis, his children with model Leslie Allen.
“Kelly always signed off any message or fare thee well with a Hungarian blessing,” Jamie Lee wrote in her tribute. “Isten Veled, God is with you. ”“Isten Veled to my sister of the sun and the moon, my Tai,” Jamie Lee wrote.
“I’ll see you on down the line. ” – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
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