Kelly Lee Curtis, Actress and Daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, Dies at 69

M. com reported. She was 69. ” Kelly Lee Curtis had been receiving hospice care for the previous week, according to Us Weekly.

She is expected to be cremated. At the time of her death, Kelly Lee Curtis was married to filmmaker John Marsh. She had appeared in the 1987 film Magic Sticks and the 1991 film The Devil’s Daughter. ” “She will be remembered for her loving generosity, fierce opinions, endless curiosity, unique style, and her powdered, almond, crescent cookies at Christmas, hence her name, Auntie Cookie,” Jamie Lee Curtis wrote.

Jamie Lee Curtis also posted never-before-seen photos of the two sisters taken the night before Jamie married Christopher Guest in December 1984. ” “I miss her today but am buoyed by the knowledge that she is at peace,” Jamie Lee Curtis concluded. ” Kelly Lee Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis are the daughters of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, who were married for 11 years before divorcing in 1962.

Tony Curtis had four other children through later marriages: Alexandra, Allegra, Benjamin, and Nicholas. Nicholas Curtis died in 1994 from a heroin overdose at age 23. The sisters are shown together in photographs from 2012, July 1994, the 1980s with their mother, 2003, and November 2012.