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| Birth Name(s) : Jaime King |
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Full Jaime King Biography
Jaime King (born April 23, 1979) is an American film actress and model. In her modeling career and early film roles, she went by the names Jamie King and most especially James King, which was a childhood nickname given to King by her parents, because her agency already represented another Jaime — the older, then-more famous model Jaime Rishar. King, because of the latter name, is sometimes referred to as the "Model with a man's name".
King currently has four additional films in production, They Wait (2007), Fanboys (2008), The Pardon (2008), and The Spirit (2009).
During her first job modeling, King was turned onto heroin and had an addiction to the drug from age 14 to 19. In 1997, 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) she became sober. King went to rehabilitation at age 19 for her addictions to heroin and alcohol.
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. She was 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. She is currently engaged to Kyle Newman whom she met working on the film Fanboys that he was directing.
King is a fan of Britney Spears, The Wu-Tang Clan, Rilo Kiley, Kate Joy, and Hot Hot Heat. She also enjoys surfing and claims to be friends with numerous musicians.
In an interview published in 1996, King, after retiring from modeling, plans to be a writer or possibly a photographer. King currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Since 1998, King has been featured in numerous advertisements for 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 were featured for the Winter Season.
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, based on the real-life stories of cocaine smugglers George Jung, Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder and the Medellín Cartel. King appeared briefly as Johnny Depp's character's daughter. She appeared in the World War II epic romance Pearl Harbor as 17 year old nurse Betty. Pearl Harbor, despite its expensive special effects and promotional campaign, was not well critically received. Many critics dismissed the film as visually polished but historically insensitive, also citing such literary flaws such as the banal dialogue, underdeveloped love triangle plot, and the shallow nature of the lead characters. In 2002, she appeared in teen comedy Slackers, Four Faces of God and Lone Star State of Mind.
2003 saw King in her first a leading role in the action film Bulletproof Monk along side Chow Yun-Fat and Seann William Scott. She was able to portray, Jade, a character skilled in martial arts, however the film received mostly negative reviews from critics, who cited that the fight scenes were not as well choreographed or directed as those other genre films, and that the alternating comedic and action scenes were jarring. The film grossed about $23.4 million domestically, far below the film production budget of $52 million. In 2004, King appeared in the comedy White Chicks, playing Heather Vandergeld, with actress Brittany Daniel as her sister Megan Vandergeld, a parody on socialites Paris and Nicky Hilton.In 2005, King had a lead role 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, green, yellow and blue on different characters.
King went on in 2006 to act in the horror film The Tripper, directed, produced, written by, and staring David Arquette. Following The Tripper she appeared in the film True True Lie. In 2007, King filmed They Wait, an upcoming Canadian horror-thriller film inspired by true events. She stars as a mother attempting to find the truth and save her son when threatened by spirits during the Chinese tradition of Ghost Month. It was featured in the 2007 Toronto Film Festival, but will not make a theatrical release until 2008.
King has starred in various music videos over the span of her career which have included Gavin Degraw's music video for "Chariot", Filter's music video for "Take a Picture", Robbie Williams' music video for "Sexed Up", and Incubus's music video for "Wish You Were Here". |
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