Washington DC, April 1 -- Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is celebrating nearly 50 years in the film industry, revealing that acting was never part of her original plan as she once thought she would become a cop, according to People.

Marking the milestone in an Instagram post, the 67-year-old shared a throwback image from one of her earliest television appearances as a waitress in a 1977 episode of Columbo, alongside a recent selfie.

"Next year, I will [have] been an actress for 50 years. I was never going to be an actor. I thought I'd be a cop," Curtis wrote, reflecting on her journey from a contract player at Universal Pictures to becoming a producer and established star.

"I was telling the story on set of my early jobs as an unnamed waitre...