Jamie Bell

Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) uses dance as a means of escaping his oppressive surroundings in Universal's Billy Elliot - 2000

Biography

Born 03/14/1986

British actor Jamie Bell tugged on international heartstrings and earned a Best Actor BAFTA for his film debut as aspiring dancer and local outcast "Billy Elliot" (2000). He was only 12 years old at the time, but universally hailed for his uncommon talent as a dancer as well as an actor. Bell...
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Awards

  • In 2001, received BAFTA Award for Best Actor
  • In 2000, received London Film Critics' Circle Award for Best Newcomer
  • In 2000, received Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer

Highlights

  • In 2008, Co-starred with Hayden Christensen in Doug Liman's "Jumper"
  • In 2008, Co-starred in Edward Zwick's World War II drama "Defiance"
  • In 2006, Cast as one of the men who lifted the flag at the battle of Iwo Jima in Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers"

Family & Companions

  • Evan Rachel Wood: Companion (Met while filming Green Day's video "Wake Me Up When September Ends" (2005); split in 2006, shortly before she began dating Marilyn Manson )
  • father: Abandoned the family before Bell was born
  • Kathryn Bell: sister (Born c. 1981)

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