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James King - actress; biography; photo wallpapers: 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".
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.

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.

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. 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".