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Hello everyone,
Big thanks to Philip for letting me know of this interesting Times Online article about Jamie!
Source: TimesOnline.co.uk
Born in Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees, in 1986, Jamie Bell was just 13 when he starred in Billy Elliot, the British film about an aspiring ballet dancer, for which he received a Bafta award in 2001. He has since appeared in films such as King Kong, Flags of Our Fathers, Hallam Foe and most recently in Jumper alongside Samuel L Jackson. He is single and lives in New York.
Billy Elliot finds his feet in Manhattan
The first time I met Jamie Bell he’d been brought to London by his mum. He was sitting in the lobby of the Dorchester, looking as if he’d sooner be on the first train back to his home in Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees.
The poor lad had danced his way across the screen in what he was assured would be a small-time film called Billy Elliot. Suddenly he was the hottest act in town, at the age of just 13. I didn’t know whether to interview him or buy him a can of fizzy pop.
But never talk down to a talented child. Bell is now 22, has become a regular in Hollywood and is a confident young Englishman in New York. From not knowing a head porter from a maître d’, Bell has become a smooth operator who is welcome in the smartest bars and clubs in Manhattan and has laid his head on the fluffiest pillows of five-star hotels around the world. Continue…
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