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Jaime King
Age
34
Birthday
Apr. 23rd, 1979
Born in
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Height
5' 9
Jaime King's Main TV Roles
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Main Movie Roles2010 - A Fork in the Road2009 - My Bloody Valentine 2008 - The Spirit 2008 - Fanboys 2006 - The Tripper 2006 - The Alibi 2005 - Two for the Money 2005 - Sin City 2005 - Pretty Persuasion 2005 - Cheaper by the Dozen 2 2004 - White Chicks 2003 - Bulletproof Monk 2002 - Slackers 2002 - Lone Star State of Mind 2001 - Pearl Harbor 2001 - Blow |
Jaime King (born April 23, 1979) is an American actress and model. In her modeling career and early film roles, she used the names Jamie King and 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.
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. 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).
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 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". King went on to be featured in the Incubus music video "Wish You Were Here". The roles King took part in during 2001 garnered her the "New Stylemaker" title at the Young Hollywood Awards.
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", 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. After five auditions, a screen test, and a physical test, she landed the role of Jade, a character skilled in martial arts. This was King's first leading action film role. Bulletproof Monk 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. Regardless, Bulletproof Monk was nominated for Choice Movie in a Drama/Action Adventure award at the Teen Choice Awards. In late 2003, King appeared in the music video for the Robbie Williams song, "Sexed Up", and on the cover artwork for the single's release. In 2004, she 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 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. However, White Chicks received Outstanding Directing for a Box Office Movie and Outstanding Writing for a Box Office Movie at the BET Comedy Awards.
TRIVIA:
- Ranked #23 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.
- Has several tattoos including a diamond on one wrist, a spade on the other, two fairies on her lower back, her last name between her shoulders and a symbol on her abdomen.
- With her "Fanboys" director Kyle Newman, she created a "Mighty Muggs" figure of Han Solo in Carbonite from "The Empire Strikes Back" for a Lucasfilm/Make-a-Wish Foundation auction.
- Ranked #30 in Loaded's "Hot 100 Babes"(2002).
- Ranked #36 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.
- Was named after "Jaime Sommers", the character in the 70s TV show _"The Bionic Woman" (1976)_ (qv).
- One of the world's top fashion models.
- Was a top model at the age 16, appearing as cover girl for "The New York Time Magaizne" and other elite fashion magazines.









