Jaime King
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Jaime Barbara King<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> (born April 23, 1979) is an American actress and model best known for her roles in TV series Hart of Dixie (2011-2015) and Black Summer (2019-2021), and films such as Pearl Harbor (2001), Slackers (2002), White Chicks (2004), Sin City (2005), Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014), Ocean’s 8 (2018) and Lights Out (2024).
A successful model, King was discovered at age 14 in 1993 and appeared in Vogue, Mademoiselle and Harper's Bazaar, among other fashion magazines. From 1998, she moved into acting, taking small film roles. Her first major role was in Pearl Harbor (2001) and her first starring movie role was in Bulletproof Monk (2003). She has since appeared films including cult classics like White Chicks (2004) and Sin City (2005), as well as and My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009) Waiting for Forever (2010), The Pardon (2013), Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014), Ocean’s 8 (2018), Out of Death (2021) and Code Name Banshee (2022) and Lights Out (2024)
King has starred in television series including the TV hit comedy-drama Hart of Dixie (2011-2015), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2009–2012) and the Netflix series Black Summer (2019-2021).
Early lifeEdit
King was born on April 23, 1979, in the suburbs of Omaha, Nebraska, the daughter of Nancy King, a former beauty queen, and Robert King. She has an older sister Sandi, an older brother Barry and a younger brother Robert (Robbie).<ref name="YBio"/> King was named after Lindsay Wagner's character, Jaime Sommers, on the 1970s television series The Bionic Woman.<ref name="Complex">Template:Cite interview</ref><ref name="IMDb">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> King's parents separated in 1994.<ref name="Egan">Template:Cite news</ref>
King attended Westside High School in Omaha and dropped out of in 1995 to order to pursue a modelling career in New York City. She attended modelling school Nancy Bounds' Studios. She later enrolled in a home-study program run by the University of Nebraska.<ref name="Egan" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Modeling careerEdit
King was discovered in November 1993, at age 14,<ref>Prato, Alison. Hail To The King Template:Webarchive</ref> while attending the modeling school Nancy Bounds' Studios. After being spotted at her graduation fashion show by model agent Michael Flutie, King was invited to New York City to begin modelling professionally.<ref name="YBio">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Model">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She joined Company Management, which already represented Jaime Rishar, a more established model. To avoid confusion, King opted to use her childhood nickname, James, for the duration of her modelling career and later, at the beginning of her film career. Her breakthrough shoot was an advertisement for Abercrombie & Fitch in 1994.Template:Citation needed
King had a successful early career as a fashion model, and by age 15 she had been featured in the fashion magazines Vogue, Mademoiselle, Allure, and Seventeen. At sixteen, King had graced the pages of Glamour and Harper's Bazaar. She was featured in the cover story of the New York Times Magazine published on February 4, 1996,<ref name="CoverNY">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Egan"/> and had walked the runway for Chanel, Alexander McQueen and Christian Dior. In 1998, she began co-hosting MTV's fashion series, House of Style, with fellow model turned actress Rebecca Romijn. Despite her success, King noted that she "remember[s] the times where I was so alone" and thought she was "never gonna be able to be a kid."<ref name="Egan"/>
In 2004, King, along with Halle Berry, Julianne Moore, and Eva Mendes was chosen as a spokesmodel for a high-profile ad campaign for Revlon. The advertisements were featured in print, television, theatrical, outdoor, and Internet venues,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> banking on their spokeswomen's "collective star power" to sell the cosmetics products.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2006, King was chosen by Rocawear CEO Jay-Z to become the new face of the line; her advertisements were featured for the winter 2006 season.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Acting careerEdit
Early work (1998–2004)Edit
In 1999, King began her acting career and made her debut in the Daniel Waters' comedy Happy Campers, as Pixel. Happy Campers was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001, and in 2003, King was nominated for Best Actress at the DVD Exclusive Awards.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Filmed in 1999, she also appeared in Filter's music video for "Take a Picture". Following her debut acting roles, King appeared briefly in the film Blow, portraying the adult Kristina Jung, daughter of cocaine smuggler George Jung, played by Johnny Depp.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
King made her first appearance in a large Hollywood production with her role as a nurse, Betty Bayer, in the World War II epic romance Pearl Harbor (2001). Peter Travers of Rolling Stone magazine commented that King "has a lively minute or two" in the film, but her part was small and the "young cast is mostly pinup packaging".<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> King went on to be featured in the Incubus music video "Wish You Were Here".<ref name="Other"/> The roles King took part in during 2001 garnered her the "New Stylemaker" title at the Young Hollywood Awards.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2002, she appeared in the teen comedy Slackers as Angela Patton, Four Faces of God as Sam, and the crime comedy Lone Star State of Mind as Baby. Slackers received negative responses from critics, including one who found that the characters "are not so strikingly original as to elevate the slack material",<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Dead link</ref> while Four Faces of God and Lone Star State of Mind did not have wide theatrical releases.Template:Citation needed
In 2003 starred in King in the film Bulletproof Monk, alongside Chow Yun-fat and Seann William Scott, an adaptation of a comic book by Michael Avon Oeming. This was King's first leading action film role. Bulletproof Monk was nominated for Choice Movie in a Drama/Action Adventure award at the Teen Choice Awards. In late 2003, King appeared in the music video for the Robbie Williams song, "Sexed Up", and on the cover artwork for the single's release.<ref name="Other" />
In 2004, she appeared in the comedy White Chicks, playing Heather Vandergeld, with actress Brittany Daniel as her sister Megan Vandergeld, a parody on socialites Paris and Nicky Hilton. White Chicks was negatively reviewed by critics, receiving five nominations at the Razzie Awards in the categories for Worst Actress, Worst Director, Worst Picture, Worst Screen Couple and Worst Screenplay. However, White Chicks won Outstanding Directing for a Box Office Movie and Outstanding Writing for a Box Office Movie at the BET Comedy Awards.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Breakthrough (2005–09)Edit
In 2005, King appeared in a variety of film and television roles. She first appeared in the independent black comedy and satire Pretty Persuasion, playing a small role as Kathy Joyce, the stepmother of Evan Rachel Wood's character. King landed dual roles (as twins) in the film adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel Sin City. She had met with director Robert Rodriguez, who was a fan of her work, and at the time King was unaware that Rodriguez wanted her involved in the film. Eventually, "we started reading [the Sin City graphic novel], and it was really fun".<ref name="Complex"/> King portrayed Goldie and Wendy, the twin prostitutes in charge of the girls of Old Town, in the segment The Hard Goodbye opposite Mickey Rourke. Sin City featured a large ensemble cast of well-known actors which included Rosario Dawson and Jessica Alba, with whom King "kinda grew up together" in New York.<ref name="Complex"/>
In Sin City, King was one of the few in the black and white film to have color, that being, red lips and blonde hair when acting as Goldie. The film was screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival in-competition and won the Technical Grand Prize for the film's "visual shaping."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The family comedy Cheaper by the Dozen 2 featured King as Anne Murtaugh in another large ensemble cast. She also acted in the Al Pacino drama Two for the Money as Alexandria. Both films had negative critical and box office reception.Template:Citation needed
On television, she had a guest appearance on the teen drama The O.C. and a recurring role on the short-lived situation comedy Kitchen Confidential. King was featured in the Zach Braff-directed music video for Gavin DeGraw's "Chariot".<ref name="Other">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2006, King appeared with a small role as Heather in the comedy The Alibi and a starring role in the thriller True True Lie. Her largest role that year was in the David Arquette horror film The Tripper as Samantha. King had a recurring role on the short lived comedy The Class, which ended its run on television after an announcement in May 2007. The Class had been nominated for an Emmy Award in 2007, and it won the People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Comedy.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2007, King filmed They Wait, a horror-thriller film inspired by true events, with Terry Chen as her husband and Regan Oey as their son.<ref name="BD">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She stars as a mother attempting to find the truth and save her son when threatened by spirits during the Chinese tradition of Ghost Month. It was featured in the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, but has not yet had a wide theatrical release. However, it was broadcast on Lifetime Movie Network February 2015.
In 2008, King appeared as Lorelei Rox in The Spirit, a live-action film adaptation based on the 1940s newspaper strip The Spirit created by Will Eisner. The role reunited King with Sin City writer Frank Miller, who wrote and directed the film.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In May 2008, King featured in another Newman-directed film, Act I of The Cube, the beginning of an online movie-making contest.<ref name="ElliotNYT">Stuart Elliott (May 8, 2008). "Your Chance to Finish a Movie Microsoft Started". The New York Times.</ref>
In 2009, King played Sarah Palmer in the horror remake My Bloody Valentine 3D, and starred in the Star Wars-themed comedy Fanboys directed by Kyle Newman.
Hart of Dixie and other roles (2010–2019)Edit
In the early 2010's, King starred in films such as the romantic comedy Waiting for Forever alongside Rachel Bilson and Tom Sturridge, Mother's Day, Red Tails, Silent Night, Barely Lethal, and in TV series including the ABC mockumentary comedy drama television series My Generation, Love Bites, and Comedy Bang! Bang!.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
From 2009–2012, King starred in the TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.<ref>Exclusive: Dread Central Pays a Visit to Scream Queens 2. dreadcentral.com Template:Webarchive</ref> She played the role of Aurra Sing in the series Season 1 finale episode "Hostage Crisis" and later the final three episodes of Season 2: "Death Trap", "R2 Come Home", and "Lethal Trackdown" as well as an appearance in Season 3. She played three other characters in addition to Aurra Sing in the series. In the episode "Lightsaber Lost", she voices Cassie Cryar and Muk Muk Monkey. She voices a ticket droid in the episode "Lethal Trackdown".<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
In 2011, King landed the role of Lemon Breeland in the CW show Hart of Dixie, which premiered on September 26, 2011.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The comedy-drama series taired on The CW from September 26, 2011, to March 27, 2015. The series, created by Leila Gerstein, stars Rachel Bilson as Dr. Zoe Hart, a New Yorker who, after her dreams of becoming a heart surgeon fall apart, accepts an offer to work as a general practitioner in the fictional Gulf Coast town of Bluebell, Alabama. King played Lemon Breeland, the main antagonist in Hart of Dixie.
In 2013, King starred in the film The Pardon, based on the true life story of Toni Jo Henry, the only woman to be electrocuted by Louisiana, stars King in the lead role with John Hawkes playing her partner-in-crime. The film's co-producer and writer Sandi Russell was quoted as saying: "Jaime carries this film. She is literally in every scene of the movie and given the subject matter, that is no small task."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2014, King reprised her role as twins Goldie and Wendy in the part sequel and part prequel of the Miller written and co-directed film Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
King has appeared in various music videos including: Lana Del Rey's music video, "Summertime Sadness", which was directed by her husband, Kyle Newman, The Fray's hit single "Never Say Never",<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Cbignore</ref> "Chariot" by Gavin DeGraw, and "Bury Me Alive" by the band We Are The Fallen.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Cbignore</ref>
In the late 2010's King starred in films such as the dark comedy film Bitch, Escape Plan 2: Hades, Escape Plan: The Extractors, Ice Cream in the Cupboard, The Mistletoe Promise, and voiced roles in Robot Chicken and Transformers: Power of the Primes.
Black Summer and film roles (2020–present)Edit
From 2019–2021, King starred in the main role on the Netflix series Black Summer. The series is a horror drama television series spinoff of Z Nation, created by Karl Schaefer and John Hyams. King starred in the lead role as Rose, a mother who is separated from her daughter during the earliest and deadliest days of a zombie apocalypse. The series garnered moderate approval from fans and critics. Many of the filming locations are around and within Calgary, Alberta.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2021, King starred in the action thriller film Out of Death alongside Bruce Willis directed by Mike Burns. Willis plays a retired forest ranger tries to help a woman played by King, after she witnesses a crime and finds herself running from a rural mountain town's corrupt police department.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
In 2022, King starred in Code Name Banshee alongside Antonio Banderas and Tommy Flanagan, and directed by Jon Keeyes. Flanagan plays Caleb, a former government assassin in hiding, resurfaces when his protege, the equally deadly killer known as Banshee, played by King, discovers a bounty has been placed on Caleb's head, and they must put the past behind them and join together one last time to fight off the secret CIA-backed killers who threaten to destroy them.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2023, King starred in the main role of the Lifetime film Hoax: The Kidnapping of Sherri Papini. The film is based on the case of the Sherri Papini kidnapping hoax, in which Sherri Papini staged her abduction after going missing in November 2016 while on a jog, she was eventually found and revealed to have staged the ordeal which became national news.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2024, King starred in Lights Out, an ensemble action thriller film directed by Christian Sesma and starring Frank Grillo, Mekhi Phifer, Dermot Mulroney and Scott Adkins. The film centers around an drifting ex-soldier turns into an underground fighter with the help of a just released ex-con, pitting them both against a crime boss, corrupt cops and hired killers.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Personal lifeEdit
From 1997-1998, King dated fashion photographer Davide Sorrenti, who died from a kidney ailment.<ref name="NJKV" /> In 2000, she dated singer Kid Rock.<ref name="NJKV">Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2006, she met director Kyle Newman while working on the set of his film Fanboys. The couple moved in together after three months of dating<ref name="children">Template:Cite news</ref> and got engaged in 2007. They married in November 2007<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> at Greystone Mansion, where Newman had proposed.<ref name="People">Template:Cite magazine</ref> After struggling with infertility due to endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome, King gave birth to sons James Knight (b. 2013) and Leo Thames (b. 2015).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Taylor Swift is godmother to son Leo.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
In May 2020, King filed for divorce from Newman after 14 years of marriage.<ref name="People200518">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> King also filed a domestic violence prevention petition and was granted a temporary restraining order against Newman,<ref name="People200518" /> which was later withdrawn.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The divorce was finalized in September 2023.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In March 2025, Newman was awarded sole physical custody and King was mandated to complete a 6-month substance rehabilitation program.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
King’s struggles with addiction began when she started using heroin at age 14, which was given to her by a photo assistant on one of her first modelling jobs.<ref name="NJKV" /> In a 2023 interview with The Cut she shared: "I was 14 [when given heroin]. I also remember being naked as a 14-year-old, 15-year-old, 16-year-old, even at 13 years old, dude, it's — I remember being naked in a bathtub for Italian Vogue when I was not even 14 years old. I remember being given champagne, and I never knew what to do with that. How could any child know what it is to do with that? You're just trying to get through it, and there's this pervasive terror that if you don't participate, you'll be sent home."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
King shared the trauma of her early modelling days living without family at 13 years old in New York: “I was terrified. I was terrified. I mean, I was a child. I think I was 13 and a half. The first time I came to New York, my mother and I came together, but when she eventually went home, I moved in with one of the editors of Harper’s Bazaar. After that, I was sort of shuffled between different people’s households, you know; basically, wherever my agent told me I should go, that’s where I was placed. I was a child, and this may sound harsh but I believe it’s true: A child at that age should not be in the fashion industry.”<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> King made the decision to leave the modelling industry at age 18.
FilmographyEdit
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Happy Campers | Pixel | Credited as James King | |
| 2001 | Blow | Older Kristina | ||
| 2001 | Pearl Harbor | Nurse Betty Bayer | ||
| 2002 | Four Faces of God | Sam | ||
| 2002 | Slackers | Angela Patton | Credited as James King | |
| 2002 | Lone Star State of Mind | Baby | ||
| 2003 | Bulletproof Monk | Jade 'Bad Girl' Kerensky | ||
| 2004 | White Chicks | Heather Vandergeld | ||
| 2005 | Pretty Persuasion | Kathy Joyce | ||
| 2005 | Sin City | Goldie and Wendy | Double role | |
| 2005 | Two for the Money | Alexandria | ||
| 2005 | Cheaper by the Dozen 2 | Anne Murtaugh | ||
| 2006 | True True Lie | Nathalie | ||
| 2006 | The Alibi | Heather | ||
| 2006 | The Tripper | Samantha | ||
| 2007 | They Wait | Sarah | ||
| 2008 | The Spirit | Lorelei Rox | ||
| 2009 | My Bloody Valentine 3D | Sarah Palmer | ||
| 2009 | Fanboys | Amber | Credited as Jaime King-Newman | |
| 2010 | Waiting for Forever | Susan Donner | ||
| 2010 | A Fork in the Road | April Rogers | ||
| 2010 | Mother's Day | Beth Sohapi | ||
| 2012 | Red Tails | 'Axis Mary' | Voice role | |
| 2012 | Silent Night | Deputy Aubrey Bradimore | ||
| 2013 | The Pardon | Toni Jo Henry | ||
| 2014 | Sin City: A Dame to Kill For | Goldie and Wendy | Double role | |
| 2015 | Barely Lethal | Analyst Knight | ||
| 2017 | Bitch | Beth | ||
| 2018 | Escape Plan 2: Hades | Abigail Ross | ||
| 2019 | Escape Plan: The Extractors | |||
| 2019 | Ice Cream in the Cupboard | Dr. Giselle Cohen | ||
| 2021 | Out of Death | Shannon Mathers | ||
| 2022 | Code Name Banshee | Banshee | ||
| 2023 | The Resurrection of Charles Manson | Also producer | ||
| 2024 | Lights Out | Detective Ellen Ridgway | Post-production | |
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2004 | Harry Green and Eugene | Anna Marie | Unaired pilot |
| 2005 | The O.C. | Mary-Sue | Episode: "The Return of the Nana" |
| 2005–2006 | Kitchen Confidential | Tanya | Main role, 13 episodes |
| 2006 | The Worst Week of My Life | Paige | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2006–2007 | The Class | Palmer | Recurring role, 6 episodes |
| 2008–2009 | Gary Unmarried | Vanessa Flood | Main role (season 1), 13 episodes |
| 2009 | Tit for Tat | Jaime | 1 episode; also writer and producer |
| 2009–2012 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Luce / Nightsister / Aurra Sing / Customs Droid / Cassie Cryar / Muk Muk Monkey |
Voice role, 7 episodes |
| 2010 | My Generation | Jackie Vachs | Main role |
| 2010 | Scream Queens | Herself | Season 2 host |
| 2011–2015 | Hart of Dixie | Lemon Breeland | Main role |
| 2011 | Celebrity Ghost Stories | Herself | Season 3, episode 1 |
| 2011 | Love Bites | Amanda | Episode: "Modern Plagues" |
| 2014 | Comedy Bang! Bang! | Sheila Linter | Episode: "Dane Cook Wears a Black Blazer & Tailored Pants" |
| 2016 | Lip Sync Battle | Herself | Episode: "Olivia Munn vs. Kevin Hart" |
| 2016 | The Mistletoe Promise | Elise Donner | Hallmark movie |
| 2016 | Robot Chicken | Shani / Anita Radcliffe / Cleo de Nile | Voice role; episode: "Yogurt in a Bag" |
| 2018 | Transformers: Power of the Primes | Solus Prime | Voice role |
| 2019–2021 | Black Summer | Rose | Main role |
| 2023 | Hoax: The Kidnapping of Sherri Papini | Sherri Papini | Lifetime movie |
| Year | Title | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | "Take a Picture" | Filter |
| 2003 | "Sexed Up" | Robbie Williams |
| 2005 | "Chariot" | Gavin DeGraw |
| 2009 | "Never Say Never" | The Fray |
| 2010 | "Bury Me Alive" | We Are The Fallen |
| 2012 | "Summertime Sadness" | Lana Del Rey |
| 2021 | "One Last Time" | LP |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | The Break In | Short film |
| 2011 | Latch Key | Short film; also writer |
Awards and nominationsEdit
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| Year | Ceremony | Category | Work | Result |
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| 2001 | Young Hollywood Awards | New Stylemaker – Female | Template:TableTBA | Template:Won |
| 2003 | DVD Exclusive Awards | Best Actress | Happy Campers | Template:Nom |
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
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