Jaime King Biography

Name : Jaime King

Date of Birth : 23 April 1979, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Height : 5' 9" (1.75 m)

Occupation : Actress, model

Hailing from Omaha, Nebraska, King was named after a character (Jamie Sommers) from the '70s TV show, The Bionic Woman. When she attended modeling school, she took up the stage name, James, and was discovered at the tender age of 14. By 15 she had already worked for Vogue, Mademoiselle, Allure and Seventeen. At her graduation fashion show she was hired on the spot and flew to New York to start her professional modeling career.

Work led her to more magazine shoots for Glamour, Cosmopolitan and Details, as well as walking down the catwalks of major fashion shows for such designers as Christian Dior, and Chanel. Succumbing to the pressures of modeling, King got hooked on drugs, becoming a steady heroin addict until her photographer boyfriend died from an overdose in 1997.

Effervescent model Jaime King parlayed the palpable personality of her fashion shots into a spin-off career in film and television beginning in 2001, when she was seen in small but memorable roles in Michael Bays' "Pearl Harbor" (2001) and Ted Demme's "Blow" (2001). King was used effectively in supporting roles in dark, stylized actioners like "Sin City" (2005) and "The Spirit" (2008) and in low-budget horror films, she was entrusted with the lead as a damsel in distress or sexy criminal on the run. King was also a natural in comedy, and in addition to supporting roles in low-brow hits like "White Chicks" (2004), maintained a steady presence in primetime with recurring roles on sitcoms including "The Class" (CBS, 2006-07). One of the more naturally talented and likable of the crop of the era's "actress-turned-models," King injected some much-needed personality into often one-dimensional supporting roles.