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Jaime King (born April 23, 1979) is an
American film actress and is considered "One of the
world's top fashion models". 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, 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".
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. 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. 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. 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
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)] she became sober.
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.
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.
An alluring, lithe blonde who got her start modeling as
a teen, James King went from cover girl to hot Hollywood
property, appearing in a whopping five releases set to
open in 2001 and another ready to lens in the summer of
that same year.
Born Jamie King in Omaha, Nebraska, the young girl
sought to broaden her horizons and asked that she be
allowed to attend the local modeling school. At age
fourteen, at the school's final presentation, King was
discovered by New York model agent Michael Flutie, who
offered the teen beauty a shot at stardom. King was soon
on the fast track, appearing in all the major magazines,
including Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Elle and Allure.
Displaying a more playful personality and down-to-earth
appeal than the average stone-faced model, King had
something special that would elevate her quickly to
supermodel ranks, but along with her great successes
came big problems. Young and free with money to spend,
the model was on the party circuit, and drug use soon
became more of a lifestyle than a recreation.
When the life of her then-boyfriend, an up and coming
photographer was cut short reportedly due to a drug
overdose, King determinedly worked to straighten up her
life. By 1998, she was back in business, co-hosting
MTV's fashion series "House of Style" with
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos.
With her likeness in countless magazines and her name on
the lips of those in the know, King had made a name for
herself in the fashion industry, but her teenage party
girl past threatened to shadow her accomplishments.
In 1999, King began lensing her first feature,
"Happy Campers" (screened at Sundance Film
Festival in 2001), co-starring as counselor Pixel in
this teen comedy written and directed by
"Heathers" screenwriter Daniel Waters. Next up
for the actress was a supporting turn as the grown up
daughter of Johnny Depp's enterprising drug dealer
George Jung in the drama "Blow" (2001),
directed by Ted Demme.
A co-starring turn as the object of a nerdy young man
(Jason Schwartzman)'s affections in the college comedy
"Slackers" was set to hit screens in April of
2001, but the folding of Destination Films kept the film
shelved until 2002. King fans looking forward to
catching the actress in a substantial role would be
sated with the May 2001 unspooling of Michael Bay's
World War II romantic epic "Pearl Harbor".
Here she played Betty, a bright and bubbly
seventeen-year-old nurse who sneaks into the navy for
adventure. Later that year she would star with teen
heartthrob Joshua Jackson in "Lone Star State of
Mind", playing a girl looking to pursue dreams of
fame and fortune by leaving her little Texas hometown
behind.
King next landed a leading role as the seductive Russian
mob princess Bad Girl in the comic book action film
"Bulletproof Monk" (2002) opposite Chow
Yun-Fat and Seann William Scott, and ventured into broad
comedy with a turn in the Wayans brothers' "White
Chicks" (2004) as one of the bitchy Vandergeld
sisters, arch-rivals to the blonde, white heiresses the
Wayans are masquerading as.
The beautiful actress was one of the few characters to
appear in color in director Robert Rodriguez and
writer-artist Frank Miller's visually arresting (and
otherwise black-and-white) adaptation of Miller's crime
noir comic book series "Sin City" (2005),
playing the angelic murdered hooker Goldie as well as
her vengeful twin Wendy opposite Mickey Rourke's hulking
Marv in the sequence "The Hard Goodbye.”
After a supporting part in the indie black comedy
“Pretty Persuasion” (2005) and a regular role on the
sitcom “Kitchen Confidential” (Fox, 2005- ), King
joined the original cast for the sequel “Cheaper By
the Dozen 2” (2005), starring Steve Martin and Bonnie
Hunt as the overburdened parents of a family of twelve.
Meanwhile, King was cast to appear in the sequel “Sin
City 2,” set for release in summer 2007.
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. 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.
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. |
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