Jaime King

Jaime King

King attending a Q & A at the Sin City Premiere in Austin, Texas, March 2005.
Born April 23, 1979 (1979-04-23) (age 31)
Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Other names James King
Jamie King
Occupation Actress/Model
Years active 1993–present
Spouse Kyle Newman (2007–present)

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 James King, which was a childhood nickname given to King by her parents,[1] because her agency already represented another Jaime — the older, then-more famous model Jaime Rishar.[2]

Called by Complex magazine "one of the original model-turned-actresses",[3] King appeared in Vogue, Mademoiselle, and Harper's Bazaar, among other fashion magazines. Afterwards, she began taking small film roles. Her first larger role was in Pearl Harbor (2001). Her first starring movie role was in Bulletproof Monk (2003). She has gone on to appear as a lead in various other films, gaining more note after Sin City (2005), a role which she will perform in its sequel Sin City 2 (2010).

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Early life and family

King was born in the suburbs of Omaha, Nebraska, the daughter of Nancy King, a beauty queen, and Robert King. She has a younger brother, Rob, and two older sisters, Sandi and Barry.[4] King was named after Lindsay Wagner's character, Jaime Sommers, of the 1970s television series The Bionic Woman.[3][5] King's parents separated in 1994,[2]. King had attended the modeling school Nancy Bounds's Studios and later dropped out of Westside High School in 1995 to pursue a modeling career in New York, afterwards enrolling in a home-study program run by the University of Nebraska.[2][6]

Modeling career

She was discovered in November 1993, at the age of fourteen,[7] while attending Nancy Bounds' Studios, 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.[4][8] She joined with Company Management, who already represented Jaime Rishar, a more established model at the time. To avoid confusion, King opted to go by her childhood nickname, James, for the duration of her modeling career and later, the beginning of her film career. In March 1994 she traveled to New York for test pictures and received enthusiastic responses, however, she did not return to New York until July 1994, after gaining a successful advertisement for Abercrombie & Fitch. Much of fall and spring 1994 were spent commuting between Omaha and New York.

King had a successful early career as a fashion model, and by age fifteen she had been featured in the fashion magazines Vogue, Mademoiselle, Allure, and Seventeen. At sixteen, King had graced the pages of Glamour and Harper's Bazaar. She was featured in the cover story of the New York Times Magazine published on February 4, 1996[9][10] and had walked the runway for Chanel and Christian Dior. In 1998, she began co-hosting MTV's fashion series, House of Style, with fellow model turned actress Rebecca Romijn. Despite her success, King noted that she "remember[s] the times where I was so alone" and thought she was "never gonna be able to be a kid."[2]

In 2004, King, along with Halle Berry, Julianne Moore, and Eva Mendes were chosen as spokesmodels for a high profile ad campaign for Revlon. The advertisements were featured in print, television, theatrical, outdoor and Internet venues,[11] banking on their spokeswomen's "collective star power" to sell the cosmetics products.[12] In 2006, King was chosen by Rocawear CEO Jay-Z to become the new face of the line; her advertisements were featured for the winter 2006 season.[13]

Acting career

Early work, 1998–2004

In 1999, King began her acting career and made her debut in the Daniel Waters' comedy Happy Campers, as Pixel. Happy Campers was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001, and in 2003, King was nominated for "Best Actress" at the DVD Exclusive Awards for her portrayal of Pixel.[14] Filmed in 1999, she also appeared in Filter's music video for "Take a Picture". Following her debut acting roles, King appeared briefly in the film Blow, portraying the adult Kristina Jung, daughter of cocaine smuggler George Jung (portrayed by Johnny Depp).[15]

King, interviewed at the Hawaiian premiere of Pearl Harbor, May 2001.

King made her first appearance in a large Hollywood production with her role as the seventeen year old nurse, Betty, in the World War II epic romance Pearl Harbor (2001). Peter Travers of Rolling Stone magazine had commented that King "has a lively minute or two" in the film, but her part was small and the "young cast is mostly pinup packaging".[16] King went on to be featured in the Incubus music video "Wish You Were Here".[17] The roles King took part in during 2001 garnered her the "New Stylemaker" title at the Young Hollywood Awards.[18]

In 2002, she appeared in the teen comedy Slackers as Angela Patton, Four Faces of God as Sam, and the crime comedy Lone Star State of Mind as Baby. Slackers received negative responses from critics, including one who found that the characters "are not so strikingly original as to elevate the slack material",[19] while Four Faces of God and Lone Star State of Mind did not have wide theatrical releases. 2003 saw King in the film Bulletproof Monk, alongside Chow Yun-fat and Seann William Scott, an adaptation of a comic book by Michael Avon Oeming. She auditioned five times, did a screen test and a physical test in order to obtain the role of Jade,[20] a character skilled in martial arts. This was King's first leading action film role, however, Bulletproof Monk had 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.[21] Despite those negative reviews, Bulletproof Monk was nominated for "Choice Movie in a Drama/Action Adventure" award at the Teen Choice Awards. Late 2003 saw King in the music video for the Robbie Williams song, "Sexed Up", and on the cover artwork for the single's release.[17] 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. White Chicks was also negatively reviewed by critics, receiving five nominations at the Razzie Awards in the categories for "Worst Actress", "Worst Director", "Worst Picture", "Worst Screen Couple" and "Worst Screenplay". Despite the multiple Razzie Awards nominations, White Chicks received "Outstanding Directing for a Box Office Movie" and "Outstanding Writing for a Box Office Movie" at the BET Comedy Awards.[22]

Breakthrough, 2005

In 2005, King appeared in a variety of film and television roles. She first appeared in the independent black comedy and satire Pretty Persuasion, playing a small role as Kathy Joyce, the step mother of Evan Rachel Wood's character. Afterwards, she gained lead roles in the film adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel Sin City. She had met with director Robert Rodriguez, who was a fan of her work, and at the time King was unaware that Rodriguez wanted her involved in the film. Eventually, "we started reading [the Sin City graphic novel], and it was really fun".[3] King portrayed 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 included Rosario Dawson and Jessica Alba, with whom King had "kinda grew up together" in New York.[3] 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."[23] The family comedy Cheaper by the Dozen 2 featured King as Anne Murtaugh in yet another large ensemble cast, and the Al Pacino drama Two for the Money as Alexandria; both films had negative critical and box office reception. In television, she had a one episode guest appearance on the teen drama The O.C. and a recurring role on the short-lived situation comedy Kitchen Confidential. King was featured in the Zach Braff-directed music video for Gavin Degraw's "Chariot".[17]

Recent and future roles, 2006–present

In 2006, King appeared with a small role as Heather in the comedy The Alibi, and a starring role in the thriller True True Lie. Her largest role that year was in the David Arquette horror film The Tripper as Samantha; Arquette had, in addition to directing the film, had produced, written, and acted in it. King had a recurring role on the short lived comedy The Class, which ended its run on television after an announcement in May 2007. The Class had been nominated for an Emmy in 2007, and won the People's Choice Award for "Favorite New TV Comedy".[24]

In 2007, King filmed They Wait, a horror-thriller film inspired by true events, with Terry Chen as her husband and Regan Oey as their son.[25] 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 has not yet had a wide theatrical release. In 2008, King appeared in The Spirit, a live-action film adaptation based on the 1940s newspaper strip created by Will Eisner, in which King portrays Lorelei Rox. The role reunited King with Sin City writer Frank Miller, who wrote and directed the film.[26]

Currently, King has four films in production that have release dates estimated for 2009. The first of three to be released in 2009 may be the Star Wars-themed comedy Fanboys. Its release date was pushed first to January 2008 when director Kyle Newman received additional funding to shoot new scenes, but the busy schedule of the actors postponed filming.[27] Still delayed, the filmmakers and its distributor, the Weinstein Company, are involved in a dispute over which version to release.[28] In May 2008, King featured in another Newman-directed film, Act I of The Cube, the beginning of an online movie-making contest.[28]

The Pardon, a film based on the true life story of Toni Jo Henry, the only woman to be electrocuted by the State of Louisiana, stars King in the lead role. The Jim Kouf comedy, A Fork in the Road, has King portraying April Rogers, alongside Daniel Roebuck. King will reprise her role as twins Goldie and Wendy in the part sequel and part prequel of the Miller written and co-directed film Sin City 2.

She plays Beth in Darren Lynn Bousmans remake of Mother's Day and narrated the movie on Scream Award 2009.[29] King hosts the reality show Scream Queens 2, directed by Biagio Messina on Vh1.[30]

She is currently co-directing and appearing in the music video for the song Bury Me Alive by the band We Are The Fallen with her husband Kyle Newman.

She also is working in the TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.[31] She played the role of Aurra Sing in the series Season 1 finale episode: Hostage Crisis and later the final three episodes of Season 2: Death Trap, R2 come home and Lethal Trackdown. Her character Aurra Sing was supposidly killed off in the season finale by Ashley Eckstein's character of Ashoka Tano, however, she is confirmed to return as Aurra Sing as a recurring character in Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 3. In Season 2, she also played three other characters in addition to Aurra Sing: In the episode: Lightsaber Lost, she played the role of Cassie Cryar and also provided the voice of Muk Muk Monkey. She also played a Ticket Droid in the episode: Lethal Trackdown as well as playing Aurra Sing in the same episode.

King will appear in the upcoming ABC documentary-style dramedy television series My Generation, which is set to premiere in Fall 2010.[32]

Personal life

During her modeling period, King started using heroin; she entered drug addiction rehabilitation at age 19 for her addictions to both heroin and alcohol, and that enabled her to regain sobriety.[33] In 2006, she commented that her past reputation as a "party girl" is "like another lifetime" and she now thinks of herself as a different person.[3]

In January 2005, while working on the set of Fanboys, she met future husband Kyle Newman, the film's director. Within three months of dating, the two moved in together.[34] Newman proposed in Spring 2007, and the two married on November 23, 2007[35] in an "intimate and relaxed" ceremony in Los Angeles at Greystone Park and Manor, where Newman had proposed.[36] King told InStyle magazine, "I want at least three children."[34]

King enjoys surfing and is friends with numerous musicians.[1] In an interview published in 1996, King, after retiring from modeling, announced her plans to be a writer or a photographer.[2] She presently lives in Los Angeles.[37]

Filmography

Year Film Role Other notes
2001 Happy Campers Pixel Credited as James King
Blow Kristina Jung Credited as James King
Pearl Harbor Nurse Betty Bayer Credited as James King
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 1 Episode
Two for the Money Alexandria
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 Annie Murtaugh
2005–2006 Kitchen Confidential (TV) Tanya 13 Episodes
2006 The Alibi Heather
True True Lie Nathalie
2006–2007 The Class (TV) Palmer Wyland 6 Episodes
2007 They Wait Sarah
The Tripper Samantha
2008 Gary Unmarried Vanessa Flood TV Series
The Spirit Lorelei Rox
2009 My Bloody Valentine 3D Sarah Palmer
Fanboys Amber
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV) Aurra Sing 4 episodes+
The Pardon Tony Jo Henry awaiting release
A Fork in the Road April Rogers post-production
Waiting for Forever Susan Donner post-production
Riding the Pine pre-production
2010 Mother's Day Beth post-production
My Generation Jacqueline Vachs main cast

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 King, Jaime. Interview with B., Lynn. We're Hangin' with Jaime King. 2003-04-15. Retrieved on 2006-10-16.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Egan, Jennifer (1996-02-04). "James is a Girl". The New York Times. http://www.jenniferegan.com/articles/1996_02_04_james.html. Retrieved 2006-11-28. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 King, Jaime. Interview with Kim, Serena. // Cover Girls // JAIME KING. Retrieved on 2007-12-12.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "James King Biography". Yahoo!. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800157425/bio. Retrieved 2006-10-15. 
  5. ↑ "Biography for Jaime King". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0454809/bio. Retrieved 2006-10-15. 
  6. ↑ "Westside High School". publicschoolreview.com. http://www.publicschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/50056. Retrieved 2007-10-07. 
  7. ↑ http://www.inkedmag.com/articles/detail/133/hail-to-the-king-/
  8. ↑ "James King". Ask Men. http://www.askmen.com/celebs/women/models/41_james_king.html. Retrieved 2006-10-15. 
  9. ↑ "Nan Goldin". Museum of Contemporary Photography. http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/goldin_nan.php. Retrieved 2006-10-15. 
  10. ↑ Egan, Jennifer (2006-02-04). "James is a girl". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903EED81739F937A35751C0A960958260&sec=&spon=&&scp=3&sq=%22Jaime%20King%22&st=cse. Retrieved 2006-10-15. 
  11. ↑ "Revlon Unveils Breakthrough Advertising Campaign; Campaign Features Revlon Spokespeople Halle Berry, Julianne Moore, Eva Mendes, Jaime King. Four Women. Four Stories. One Feeling". Business Wire. 2004-04-02. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2004_April_2/ai_114871761. Retrieved 2007-12-13. 
  12. ↑ "Revlon taps emotion in new ad campaign". Drug Store News. 2004-04-19. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3374/is_6_26/ai_n6007348. Retrieved 2007-12-13. 
  13. ↑ Kim, Serena (August/September 2006). Do not Call it a Comeback. Complex 
  14. ↑ "Happy Campers (2001)". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210094/awards. Retrieved 2007-11-13. 
  15. ↑ "Demme took cocaine, says coroner". BBC. 2002-02-03. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/entertainment/1798961.stm. Retrieved 2007-11-13. 
  16. ↑ Travers, Peter (2001-05-24). "Pearl Harbor". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/5948445/review/5948446/pearl_harbor. Retrieved 2007-12-12. 
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 "Other Works for Jamie King". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0454809/otherworks. Retrieved 2007-12-12. 
  18. ↑ "Jaime King (I)". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0454809/awards. Retrieved 2007-11-13. 
  19. ↑ Hunter, David (2002-01-25). "Slackers". The Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1279858. Retrieved 2007-12-12. 
  20. ↑ King, Jaime. Interview. INT: Jamie King. 2003. Retrieved on 2007-12-23.
  21. ↑ "Bulletproof Monk". Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bulletproof_monk/. Retrieved 2007-10-05. 
  22. ↑ "White Chicks (2004)". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381707/awards. Retrieved 2007-11-13. 
  23. ↑ Cannes Film Festival awards report, IMDB.com "Awards". International Movie Database. http://imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Cannes_Film_Festival/2005#Technical_Grand_Prize Cannes Film Festival awards report, IMDB.com. Retrieved 2007-10-05. 
  24. ↑ "Awards for "The Class"". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484082/awards. Retrieved 2007-11-17. 
  25. ↑ "TIFF: First Horror Film Announced, 'They Wait'". Bloody Disgusting. http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/9379. Retrieved 2007-09-08. 
  26. ↑ Sanchez, Robert. "Exclusive: Sin City Hottie Joins Frank Miller's The Spirit!". IESB.net. http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3423&Itemid=99. Retrieved 2007-10-05. 
  27. ↑ "Fanboys Pushed Back to January 2008". Theforce.net. http://www.theforce.net/latestnews/story/Fanboys_Pushed_Back_To_January_2008_105913.asp. Retrieved 2007-10-05. 
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 Stuart Elliott (May 8, 2008). "Your Chance to Finish a Movie Microsoft Started". New York Times.
  29. ↑ SCREAM '09: Jamie King on Unnerving 'Mother's Day' Shoot
  30. ↑ TV: 'Scream Queens' Season 2 Super Trailer
  31. ↑ Exclusive: Dread Central Pays a Visit to Scream Queens 2
  32. ↑ "ABC Unveils 2010–11 Primetime Schedule". The Futon Critic. May 18, 2010. http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2010/05/18/abc-unveils-2010-11-primetime-schedule/20100518abc01/. Retrieved May 29, 2010. 
  33. ↑ "James King". newfaces.com. http://www.newfaces.com/celebrities/james-king.php. Retrieved 2007-10-07. 
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 Serpe, Gina (2007-11-26). "Jaime King Made a Missus". E! News. http://www.eonline.com/print/index.jsp?uuid=1d1d687a-725f-4971-ae5b-c57f070ad259&contentType=newsStory. Retrieved 2007-12-18. 
  35. ↑ "Jaime King ties the knot". Monsters and Critics. 2007-11-26. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1376421.php/Jaime_King_ties_the_knot. Retrieved 2007-12-18. 
  36. ↑ Lehner, Marla (2007-09-13). "Jaime King Talks About FedEx Engagement Fiasco". People. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20056559,00.html. Retrieved 2007-12-13. 
  37. ↑ "Jaime King Biography". Filmbug.com. http://www.filmbug.com/db/152672-9. Retrieved 2006-10-16. 

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