Jaime King

King was named after Lindsay Wagner's character, Jaime Sommers, on the 1970s television series The Bionic Woman.

Jaime King (born April 23, 1979) is an American actress and model.

In her modeling career and early film roles, she used the names Jamie King and James King, which was a childhood nickname given to King by her parents, because her agency already represented another Jaime—the older, then-more famous model Jaime Rishar.

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).

A successful model, King was discovered at age 14 in 1993 and appeared in Vogue, Mademoiselle and Harper's Bazaar, among other fashion magazines.

King was discovered in November 1993, at age 14, while attending 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 modeling professionally.

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 modeling career and later, at the beginning of her film career.

King's parents separated in 1994.

In March 1994, she traveled to New York for test pictures and received enthusiastic responses, however, she did not return to New York until July 1994, after gaining a successful advertisement for Abercrombie & Fitch.

Much of fall and spring 1994 were spent commuting between Omaha and New York.

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.

King had attended Nancy Bounds' Studios, a modeling school, and in 1995 dropped out of Westside High School in order to pursue a modeling career in New York City.

She later enrolled in a home-study program run by the University of Nebraska.

She was featured in the cover story of the New York Times Magazine published on February 4, 1996, and had walked the runway for Chanel, Alexander McQueen and Christian Dior.

From 1998, she moved into acting, taking small film roles.

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."

In 1999, King began her acting career and made her debut in the Daniel Waters' comedy Happy Campers, as Pixel.

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 (portrayed by Johnny Depp).

Her first major role was in Pearl Harbor (2001) and her first starring movie role was in Bulletproof Monk (2003).

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.

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".

King went on to be featured in the Incubus music video "Wish You Were Here".

The roles King took part in during 2001 garnered her the "New Stylemaker" title at the Young Hollywood Awards.

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", while Four Faces of God and Lone Star State of Mind did not have wide theatrical releases.

2003 saw King in the film Bulletproof Monk, alongside Chow Yun-fat and Seann William Scott, an adaptation of a comic book by Michael Avon Oeming.

After five auditions, a screen test, and a physical test, she landed the role of Jade, a character skilled in martial arts.

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, banking on their spokeswomen's "collective star power" to sell the cosmetics products.

She has since appeared in other films including Sin City (2005) and My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009) and, from 2011 to 2015, starred in the television series Hart of Dixie.

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.

In 2016, she had the lead role in The Mistletoe Promise, a Hallmark movie.

She also voiced the role of Aurra Sing on Star Wars: The Clone Wars.