Jamie bell He was born on March 14, 1986 in the small town of Billingham, located north of Stockton on Tees, England.
The life of this young boy, like that of many other English actors, was not easy at all in his childhood.
To begin with, his father abandoned his family shortly after he was born, because he did not want to recognize him as his son, or at least he was not satisfied with his birth.
He grew up to 5 years with his older sister and his mother in a humble home when his mother decided to intern him in the Stagecoach Theater School.
This was partly due to two things: first, that she held two and sometimes three different jobs to support her children, and second, that Jamie had told her mother that she wanted to take dance and acting classes.
The anecdote of this order is really nice, because it is about a time when they were both watching a street play, when Jamie said that he could do the representation better than those who were on stage.
In 2000 he made his stellar appearance in movie theaters, with the world-renowned film “Billy elliot”. She took the British Independent Film Awards for Best film, Best Director Y Best screenplay.
There, Jamie made use of his eight years of classical dance, demonstrating a great capacity for acting and receiving for it the BAFTA Award to the Best Actor and also him British Independent Film Awards to the Best New Actor.
The movie is truly a beautiful story that tells how Billy, a talented and lively young man, tries to overcome the conflict of miners in his town, where his brother and father are militants.
They both want the eleven-year-old to follow in his father’s boxer footsteps, but Billy prefers to escape from the ring and start dancing with a charismatic teacher (Julie Walters, nominated for Oscar What Best Supporting Actress).
In 2002 he returned to star in another feature film, this time of a warlike nature. On “Deathwatch“Embodied the soldier Charlie shakespeare when he reaches the French coast in 1917 and discovers that a supernatural being is slaughtering in the trenches.
That same year, he also participated in “Nicholas nickleby” next to Charlie hunnam Y Anne Hathaway, in the role of the servant of Nicholas, Smike. The renowned English actors Christopher Plummer, Nathan lane Y Jim Broadbent also took their place in the classic of Dickens.
In 2004 he worked on the film “Undertow”And in 2005 he was a young sailor in the popular movie Peter jackson “King kong”, Sharing the scene with Naomi watts Y Jack black.
Already in 2006, Clint eastwood chose him to be the youngest soldier in the military company of the feature film “Flags of Our Fathers“(Flags of our fathers), accompanying Paul walker.
In 2007 he had on his agenda the filming of two more films “Hallam foe” Y “Jumper”, Which he completed with resounding success.
“Jumper“will have in its cast Samuel L. Jackson already Diane lane, in addition to the recognized Hayden Christensen and will be released on February 14, 2008.