Thursday, December 27, 2007

James King






James King Profile

Name: James King

Birth Name: Jamie King

Height: 5' 9"

Sex: F

Nationality: American

Birth Date: April 23, 1979

Birth Place: Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Profession: actress, model

Education: Westside High School, Omaha, Nebraska (dropped in 1995 to pursue
modelling)

Husband/Wife: Kyle Newman (director; born on March 16, 1976; married on November 23, 2007)

Relationship: Kid Rock (musician; born on January 17, 1971), Davide Sorrenti (fashion photographer; died in 1997 - overdosed)

Father: Robert R. King (divorced in 1995)

Mother: Nancy H. King

Sister: Sandi King (older)

Brother: Barry King (younger)

Claim to fame: as Nurse Betty Bayer in Michael Bay' Pearl Harbor (2001)

James 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".

Called by Complex magazine "One of the original model- turned- actresses", King appeared in Vogue, Mademoiselle, and Harper's BazaaJustify Fullr among other fashion magazines. Afterwards, she began taking small film roles, her first large endeavor being the big-budget Pearl Harbor (2001), and later first starring role in Bulletproof Monk (2003). She has gone on to appear as a lead in various other films, and gained more notoriety after Sin City (2005), in which she will reprise her role for the sequel Sin City 2 (2009).

King was born in the suburbs of Omaha, Nebraska to mother Nancy H. King, a beauty queen, and father Robert R. King. She has an older sister, Sandi, and a younger brother, Barry. King was named after Lindsay Wagner's character, Jaime Sommers, of the 1970s television series The Bionic Woman. King's parents separated in 1994, eventually spliting amicably in 1995. The two continue to work together in Omaha where they rent out low-income apartments. 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.

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