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This article is about the actress and fashion model. For the choreographer, see
Jamie King.
Jaime King (born April 23, 1979) is an American film actress and is considered "One of the world's top fashion models".[1] She also goes by the names Jamie King and most especially James King, which was a childhood nickname given to King by her parents that she used during her early modeling years,[2] because her agency already represented another Jaime — the older, then-more famous model Jaime Rishar.[3] King because of the latter name is sometimes referred to as the "Model with a man's name".[4]
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Early life
- 1.2 Modeling career
- 1.3 Acting career
- 1.4 Personal life
- 2 Selected filmography
- 3 External links
- 4 References
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Biography
Early life
King was born in the suburbs of Omaha, Nebraska and she is reputed to be named after Jaime Sommers of the 1970s television series, The Bionic Woman.[1] She was discovered at the age of fourteen while attending a school for modeling. After being spotted at her graduation fashion show, by New York model agent Michael Flutie, King was invited to New York to begin modeling professionally.[5][6] She later dropped out of high school in 1995 to pursue a modeling career in New York and later enrolled in a home-study program.[3] In a magazine interview, she said she was studying for her GED via a correspondence course at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Modeling career
King had a successful early career as a fashion model and by age fifteen she had modeled in
Vogue,
Mademoiselle,
Allure, and
Seventeen. At sixteen, King had graced the pages of
Glamour and
Harper's Bazaar. She was also featured on the
New York Times Magazine cover story published on
February 4,
1996[7] and had walked the runway for
Chanel and
Christian Dior. By 1997, despite her growing modeling career, King was a
heroin addict and
alcoholic, but following the death of her boyfriend, younger brother of
Mario Sorrenti, fashion photographer
Davide Sorrenti (who at age 21 died of a kidney ailment that was thought to have been brought on by excessive heroin use)
[5] she became sober.
[6] By 1998 she was co-hosting
MTV's fashion series
House of Style with fellow model turned actress
Rebecca Romijn.
Since 1998, King has been featured in numerous advertisements, including Bebe, Revlon, Cesare Paciotti, Express Jeans, Coach, Armani Exchange, and Matsuda. In 2006 King was hand chosen by Jay-Z himself to be the new face of Rocawear, and her advertisements can be currently seen for the Winter Season.[8]
Acting career
In 1999 King began her acting career and made her debut in the film Happy Campers which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001. The same year King followed that role with one in the film Blow as Johnny Depp's character's daughter and also appeared in the World War II epic romance Pearl Harbor as 17 year old nurse Betty. The following year she had a leading role in the action film Bulletproof Monk along side Chow Yun-Fat and Seann William Scott. 2005 saw King in the film adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel titled Sin City as twins Goldie and Wendy. King was one of the few in the black and white film to appear in color and was featured in the segment The Hard Goodbye opposite Mickey Rourke. Also that year she acted in the family comedy Cheaper by the Dozen 2. Apart from big-budget films in 2005, she had appeared in a supporting role in the independent black comedy Pretty Persuasion and was series regular on the sitcom Kitchen Confidential. In 2006, she appeared on the CBS sitcom The Class for several episodes and filmed the horror film The Tripper, directed by David Arquette. She is returning in 2007 for the sequel to Sin City, Sin City 2.
She also starred in Gavin Degraw's music video for "Chariot" and Filter's music video for "Take a Picture".
Personal life
King was rumored to have dated
Sean Lennon, but she denied the rumors while on the
Howard Stern Show. In
September 2000, King was dating
Kid Rock and the couple made an appearance on a later recording of the
Howard Stern Show.
[9] She was also rumored to be linked with model
Alex Burns,
Jake Gyllenhaal in spring 2001, and
Matt Damhave in 2002. King then dated
Bradley Cooper whom she met while working on the series
Kitchen Confidential in 2005.
[5]
King is a fan of Britney Spears, The Wu-Tang Clan, Rilo Kiley, Kate Joy, and Hot Hot Heat.[10] She also enjoys surfing and claims to be friends with numerous musicians.[2]
In an interview published in 1996, King, after retiring from modeling, plans to be a writer or possibly a photographer.[3] King currently resides in Los Angeles, California.[11]
Image:SincityKing.jpg King in
Sin City, the film adaptation of
Frank Miller's graphic novel series. She plays two characters in the film, twin sisters Goldie and Wendy. When portraying Goldie (as shown in the image) King's blonde hair and red lips remain in color while the entire film otherwise is in black and white, with the exception of other splashes of red or yellows on different characters.
Selected filmography
