Jaime King
Jaime King | |
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| Born | Jaime King |
| Other names | James King Jamie King |
| Height | 5' 9 |
Jaime King (born April 23, 1979) is an American film actress and model. 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,[1] because her agency already represented another Jaime — the older, then-more famous model Jaime Rishar.[2] King, because of the latter name, is sometimes referred to as the "Model with a man's name".[3]
King had a successful modeling career and was considered "One of the world's top fashion models",[4] appearing in as Vogue, Mademoiselle, and Harper's Bazaar. Afterwards, King began taking small film roles, her first large endeavor being the big-budget Pearl Harbor (2001), and later first starring role later in Bulletproof Monk (2003). She has gone onto appear as a lead in various other films, and gained more notoriety after Sin City (2005), in which she will also reprise her role for the sequel Sin City 2 (2009).
King currently has four additional films in production, They Wait (2007), Fanboys (2008), The Pardon (2008), and The Spirit (2009).
Personal 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.[4] 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.[2] In a magazine interview, she said she was studying for her GED via a correspondence course at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
In 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] 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.[7] 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. She is currently engaged to Kyle Newman whom she met working on the film Fanboys that he was directing.[8]
King is a fan of Britney Spears, The Wu-Tang Clan, Rilo Kiley, Kate Joy, and Hot Hot Heat.[9] She also enjoys surfing and claims to be friends with numerous musicians.[1]
In an interview published in 1996, King, after retiring from modeling, plans to be a writer or possibly a photographer.[2] King currently resides in Los Angeles, California.[10]
Career
Modeling
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[11] and had walked the runway for Chanel and Christian Dior. 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 were featured for the Winter Season.[12]
Acting
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 also 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.[13] 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.[14] The film grossed about $23.4 million domestically, far below the film production budget of $52 million.[15] 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.
2005 saw King in a the independent black comedy Pretty Persuasion. Afterwards, she was a lead in the film adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel Sin City as Goldie and Wendy, the twin prostitutes in charge of the girls of Old Town, in the segment The Hard Goodbye opposite Mickey Rourke. Sin City featured a large ensemble cast of well known actors which also included Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood, Rutger Hauer, Clive Owen, Benicio del Toro, Rosario Dawson, Alexis Bledel, Brittany Murphy, Bruce Willis and Jessica Alba. Sin City had opened to wide critical and commercial success, gathering particular recognition for the film's unique coloring process, which rendered most of the film in black and white but retained coloring for select objects; King was one of the few in the black and white film to have color, that being, red lips and blonde hair when acting as Goldie. The film was screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival in-competition and won the Technical Grand Prize for the film's "visual shaping."[16] That year she also had roles on television on the teen drama The O.C. and short-lived situation comedy Kitchen Confidential. In film, King appeared in the family comedy Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and Two for the Money; both had negative critical and box office success.
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.[17] 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.
Currently, King has four films in production. The first of two to be released in 2008 is Starwars-themed comedy Fanboys, which recently had its release date pushed to January 2008. This was due to director Kyle Newman's additional funding to shoot additional scenes, and the busy schedules of the actors who could only film in September 2007, thus moving the release date once more.[18] Another is The Pardon, which will have King star as Toni Jo Henry, an abused woman who has a brief run in with happiness before being accused of murder. King also has two films currently in pre-production with release dates estimated for 2009. She had confirmed a role in The Spirit, is a live-action film adaptation based on the 1940s newspaper strip The Spirit, created by Will Eisner. The role will reunite King with Sin City writer, Frank Miller, who is attached to write and direct The Spirit. Filming is slated to begin in October 2007, with a release date in January 2009. .[19] King's other 2009 film will also be written by and co-directed by Miller, in the film Sin City 2. She will reprise her role as twins Goldie and Wendy in the part sequel and part prequel.
King has also 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" and Robbie Williams' music video for "Sexed Up".
Selected filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Happy Campers | Pixel | Credited as James King |
| Blow | Kristina Jung | Credited as James King | |
| Pearl Harbor | Nurse Betty Bayer | ||
| 2002 | Four Faces of God | Sam | |
| Slackers | Angela Patton | Credited as James King | |
| Lone Star State of Mind | Baby | ||
| 2003 | Bulletproof Monk | Jade | |
| 2004 | White Chicks | Heather Vandergeld | |
| 2005 | Pretty Persuasion | Kathy Joyce | |
| Sin City | Goldie/Wendy | ||
| The O.C.(TV) | Mary-Sue | ||
| Two for the Money | Alexandria | ||
| Cheaper by the Dozen 2 | Annie Murtaugh | ||
| The Alibi | Heather | ||
| 2005 - 2006 | Kitchen Confidential (TV) | Tanya | |
| 2006 | The Tripper | Samantha | |
| True True Lie | Nathalie | ||
| 2006 - 2007 | The Class | Palmer | |
| 2007 | They Wait | Sarah | Premiering at Toronto Film Festival |
| 2008 | Fanboys | Amber | Post-production |
| The Pardon | Tony Jo Henry | Pro-production | |
| 2009 | The Spirit | Unknown | Pre-Production |
| Sin City 2 | Goldie/Wendy | Pre-production |
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- ^ a b c Egan, Jennifer (1996-02-04). "James is a Girl". The New York Times. Retrieved 2006-11-28.
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- ^ a b "James King Biography". Yahoo.com. Retrieved 2006-10-15.
- ^ a b "James King". AskMen.com. Retrieved 2006-10-15.
- ^ "Howard Stern Shows News Archives". MarksFriggin.com. Retrieved 2006-11-21.
- ^ "Actress Jaime King Engaged to Director". People. Retrieved 2007-06-12.
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- ^ "Nan Goldin". Retrieved 2006-10-15.
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- ^ Cannes Film Festival awards report, IMDB.com "Awards". International Movie Database.
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- ^ "Fanboys Pushed Back to January 2008". theforce.net. Retrieved 2007-10-05.
- ^ Sanchez, Robert. "Exclusive: Sin City Hottie Joins Frank Miller's The Spirit!". IESB.net. Retrieved 2007-10-05.