Jamie Curry | ||||||||||
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Born | Napier, New Zealand | 26 July 1996|||||||||
Occupation | YouTuber | |||||||||
Years active | 2012–2019 | |||||||||
Known for | Jamie's World | |||||||||
Partner | Laura Nye (2017–2022)[ citation needed ] | |||||||||
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Subscribers | 1.19 million [1] | |||||||||
Views | 65.5 million [1] | |||||||||
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Last updated: 3 August 2025 |
Jamie Curry (born 26 July 1996) [2] is a New Zealand YouTube personality, vlogger, and comedian, best known for creating Jamie's World.
Curry grew up in Taradale [3] and attended Sacred Heart College, [3] which she graduated from in 2014. [4]
She began creating Jamie's World videos in 2012; her first video was a parody music video, to "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "White & Nerdy". [5] By 2013, she was reaching an audience of 7 million people per week. [3]
She co-authored a book with Alex Casey, They Let Me Write A Book!: Jamie’s World, which was published in 2015. [5] She was nominated for Favorite Aussie/Kiwi Internet Sensation in the 2015 Kids' Choice Awards. [4] [5]
In 2016, she played Becky in New Zealand comedy television programme Funny Girls.
In 2017, she published a series of videos called Jamie's World on Ice, which were filmed during a trip to Antarctica in November 2016. [6] Produced and directed by Damian Christie, it consists of four episodes and two special features, [7] all but one of which were published on her YouTube channel. The four episodes and the remaining special feature were published on TVNZ OnDemand on 12 May 2017. [8] She appeared on a celebrity "All-Star" episode of Family Feud on 26 April 2017.
In 2015, she moved from her family home in Napier to Auckland. [9]
On 24 June 2018, she published a video announcing that she was engaged to a woman. [10] [11]