Jamie Lee Curtis thanks 'nepo baby' status for stardom while accepting SAG award: 'This is just amazing!'

Jamie Lee Curtis addressed nepotism successful Hollywood aft winning a Screen Actors Guild Award connected Sunday.

"I'm wearing nan wedding ringing that my begetter gave my mother," Curtis told nan assemblage arsenic she accepted nan grant for her domiciled successful "Everything Everywhere All At Once." She reminded nan room astatine nan Fairmont Century Plaza that her celebrated parents, Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, didn't ever person nan cleanable emotion story.

"They hated each other, by nan way. But, my sister Kelly and I were calved from love," she said. "My begetter was from Hungary and my mother was from Denmark, and they had nothing, and they became these monstrous stars successful this manufacture they loved truthful much. My parents were actors."

Curtis antecedently slammed nan conception that nan word "nepo-babies" was "just designed to effort to diminish and denigrate and hurt" successful a scathing Instagram station wherever she proclaimed herself an "OG Nepo Baby."

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Jamie Lee Curtis accepted nan grant for female character successful a supporting domiciled astatine nan SAG Awards. (Kevin Winter)

"I joined an actor," she said of her hubby Christopher Guest. "I emotion actors. I emotion acting. I emotion nan occupation we get to do. I emotion being a portion of a crew. I emotion being a portion of a cast."

Curtis rocked a long-sleeved reddish Romona Keveza gown pinch a plunging neckline astatine nan star-studded ceremonial successful Los Angeles.

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"I emotion what we do pinch each other," she added. "It’s specified a beautiful occupation and I cognize that truthful galore group successful our manufacture who are actors don’t get to do this job, and you look astatine nights for illustration this and think, ‘Is that ever gonna beryllium imaginable for me?’"

"I cognize you look astatine maine and go, 'Nepo baby, that's why she's there,' and, I get it, but, nan truth of nan matter is: I'm 64 years old, and this is conscionable amazing."

Jamie Lee Curtis wins Female Actor successful a Supporting Role — Motion Picture grant for "Everything Everywhere All astatine Once."  (Frazer Harrison)

Jamie Lee Curtis wowed wearing a agleam reddish gown astatine nan Screen Actors Guild Awards successful Los Angeles.  (Amy Sussman)

Curtis roseate to fame aft playing Laurie Strode successful John Carpenter's scary deed "Halloween." 

Producer Debra HIll said she formed Curtis because of her mother's position arsenic a scary icon, saying it would beryllium "great publicity" for nan film. 

Janet was known for her domiciled successful Alfred Hitchcock's classic scary flick, "Psycho."

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Janet Leigh and Jamie Lee Curtis attended nan first Screen Actors Guild Awards together successful 1995. (Ron Galella)

Janet Leigh holds Jamie Lee Curtis arsenic a babe arsenic Jamie's older sister Kelly, and dad, Tony Curtis, look on. (Bettmann / Contributor)

Jamie's father, Tony, appeared successful much than 100 films during his six-decade career, including "Some Like it Hot," "Spartacus," and "The Defiant Ones," wherever he received an Academy Award nomination.

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Since Jamie Lee Curtis became a family sanction successful nan "Halloween" franchise, she's reprised nan domiciled 7 times and added starring roles to her resume, including "True Lies," "Freaky Friday," "A Fish Called Wanda," and "Scream Queens." 

Upon winning nan champion formed successful a mobility image SAG Award, Curtis said, "On behalf of my unit of weirdos, we admit your emotion and support."