Jamie Bell
Born	14 March 1986 (1986-03-14) (age 21) Billingham, Stockton on Tees, England
Occupation	Actor
Awards BAFTA Awards Best Actor 2000 Billy Elliot Other Awards NBR Award for Breakthrough Performance Actor 2000 Billy Elliot NBR Award for Best Cast 2002 Nicholas Nickleby

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Biography

Early life

Born in Billingham, England, where Bell grew up with his mother and older sister. His father left after his birth. Bell was a pupil at Northfield School, then the Stagecoach Theatre School. He was a member of the National Youth Music Theatre, performing in their 1998 production of Bugsy Malone at the Queens Theatre alongside other future stars Hannah Spearritt and Sheridan Smith^{[citation needed]}. For people named Billingham, see Billingham (surname). ... The London-based National Youth Music Theatre or NYMT is the United Kingdoms leading organisation for young people in the field of musical theatre. ... Bugsy Malone is a 1976 musical film, very loosely based on events in Chicago, Illinois in the Prohibition era, specifically, the exploits of gangsters like Al Capone as dramatized in cinema. ... Hannah Louise Spearritt (born April 1, 1981) is an English actress and singer. ... Sheridan Smith (born 25 June 1981) is a British actress. ...

He took dance lessons from the age of six when he saw a girl dance out of rhythm and told his mother he could do better. This experience would later help him in his award-winning role of Billy Elliot. For other uses, see Billy Elliot (disambiguation). ...

Career

Bell acted as Honorary Jury President of the 2001 Giffoni Film Festival. Since his film debut in Billy Elliot, he has appeared in a number of diverse roles, including the crippled servant Smike in an adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby, a young soldier in Deathwatch, a teenager on the run in Undertow, a gun-toting pacificist in Dear Wendy, and a disaffected Southern California teenager in The Chumscrubber. His most recent roles are a young seaman in Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong and a marine in Clint Eastwood's war drama Flags of Our Fathers. There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, (or Nicholas Nickleby for short) is a comic novel of Charles Dickens. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Undertow (2004) is the third film by young American filmmaker David Gordon Green. ... Dear Wendy film poster Dear Wendy is a 2005 film directed by Thomas Vinterberg, and starring Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman,Mark Webber and Alison Pill among others. ... The Chumscrubber is a 2005 dark comedy film directed by Arie Posin and written by Posin and Zac Stanford. ... For other persons named Peter Jackson, see Peter Jackson (disambiguation). ... King Kong is a 2005 remake of the 1933 King Kong film about a fictional giant ape called Kong. ... Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. ... Flags of Our Fathers (2000) is the New York Times-bestselling book by James Bradley with Ron Powers about the five United States Marines and one United States Navy Corpsman (Medic) who would eventually be made famous by Joe Rosenthals lauded photograph of the flag raising at Iwo Jima...

He has roles in two upcoming films: Hallam Foe and the sci-fi movieJumper. Despite rumours to the contrary, he will not be appearing in Thea Sharrock's West End production of Equus^[1]; withdrawing from negotiations when he was not offered the contract for the play's Broadway run^{[citation needed]}. Hallam Foe is a 2007 drama film directed by David Mackenzie and based on a novel written by Peter Jinks. ... Jumper is a 2007 science fiction film directed by Doug Liman. ... Thea Sharrock (born 1976) is an award-winning English theatre director. ... West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, England, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland. Along with New Yorks Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre... Cover of 1993 Longman edition of Equus. ... For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ...

He recently cameod as himself in Lonelygirl15 spin-off KateModern^[2]. He will next work on the films The Stanford Prison Experiment and Defiance. lonelygirl15 is an interactive web-based video series, centering on the life of a fictional teenage girl named Bree, whose YouTube username is the eponymous lonelygirl15. ... KateModern is the Official Spin-Off Series of Lonelygirl15. ...

He's expressed interest in working with Martin Scorsese and Cate Blanchett. Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (IPA: AmE: ; Ita: []) (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, writer and producer and founder of the World Cinema Foundation. ... Catherine Élise Blanchett (born on May 14, 1969) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actress. ...

Personal life

Bell briefly dated actress Evan Rachel Wood, with whom he appeared in the Green Day music video "Wake Me Up When September Ends", from 2005 through to late 2006[1]. He has the letter E tattooed on the inside of one arm, in reference to her. ^{[citation needed]}. Evan Rachel Wood (born September 7, 1987[1]) is an American film, television and theater actress, and singer. ... This article is about the band Green Day. ... American Idiot track listing Letterbomb (10) Wake Me Up When September Ends (11) Homecoming (12) Wake Me Up When September Ends is the fourth single from Green Days seventh studio album, American Idiot. ...

He currently resides in New York, and also owns a home in Chelsea, London. His accent is now an unusual hybrid of Northern English and American^{[citation needed]}. This article is about the state. ... Statue of Thomas More on Cheyne Walk. ... // This article is about a biological term. ...

Filmography

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Awards

• 2000 — BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Young Performer
• 2000 — National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, Outstanding Young Actor (only the second time this has been awarded. The first recipient was Christian Bale in 1987, when the award was titled Outstanding Juvenile Performance).
• 2001 — BAFTAs, Best Male Performance (over 4 oscar-winning actors.)

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References

1. ^ The Stage
2. ^ Hallam Foe star Jamie Bell guest stars on Bebo's KateModern.

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