'Scarpetta' stars Nicole Kidman, Jamie Lee Curtis ponder life and death
By Erin Jensen
Published on March 10, 2026.
Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis star in the adaptation of Patricia Cornwell's crime thriller novels, "Scarpetta," a Prime Video show by Amazon MGM Studios and Blumhouse Television. The series creator, Elizabeth Sarnoff, taught Kidman how to perform autopsies and how to hold the scalpel. The show is set to debut on Prime Video on March 11. In the show, Kay Scarpetta, the Chief Medical Examiner at the center of the series, is played by Kidman/Rosy McEwen and Curtis. The murder of their father when they were young young deeply affects their lives. Curtis and Kidman have both had personal losses.
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