0 a female actor who plays a main character in a horror film who gets frightened or attacked, or the character she plays:
Jamie Lee Curtis is a Hollywood scream queen turned comedian and children's book author.
Twenty years after starring in the original horror classic Halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis is back in her original role as scream queen Laurie Strode.
We didn't set out to be scream queens. We just took all the work that was offered to us.
Well into her later years, Fay Wray continued to travel to film events where she was feted as the "scream queen".
