Andrew James Matfin Bell was born on 14 March 1986 and is an English actor.
17 Facts About Jamie Bell
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Jamie Bell rose to prominence for his debut role in Billy Elliot, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, becoming one of the youngest winners of the award.
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Jamie Bell earned a second BAFTA Award nomination for his leading performance in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool.
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Jamie Bell was born on 14 March 1986 in Billingham, Teesside, England, where he grew up with his mother, Eileen Matfin, and elder sister, Kathryn.
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Jamie Bell began his involvement with dance after he accompanied his sister to her ballet lessons.
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In 1999, Jamie Bell was chosen from a field of over 2,000 boys for the role of Billy Elliot, an 11-year-old boy who dismays his working-class widowed father and elder brother by taking up ballet.
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Jamie Bell's performance received widespread acclaim, and 14-year-old Jamie Bell won London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Newcomer of the Year, British Independent Film Award for Best Newcomer, Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer, and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, becoming one of the youngest winners of the awards.
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Jamie Bell appeared in Close and True, an ITV legal drama shown in 2000, which starred Robson Green, James Bolam, Kerry Ann Christiansen and Susan Jameson.
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Jamie Bell served as Honorary Jury President of the 2001 Giffoni Film Festival.
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Jamie Bell had roles in two 2008 films: the sci-fi film Jumper and the World War II drama Defiance.
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Jamie Bell starred in the 2011 films The Eagle as Esca and Jane Eyre as St John Rivers.
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From 2014 to 2017, Jamie Bell appeared as Abraham Woodhull in Turn: Washington's Spies.
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In 2017, Jamie Bell had starring roles in 6 Days and Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool.
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Jamie Bell dated American actress Evan Rachel Wood for a year in 2005 after they had met at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Jamie Bell said he was deprived of contact with him when Wood moved from Los Angeles to Nashville; Wood claimed she did this to protect the child from former fiance Marilyn Manson.
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In late 2015, Jamie Bell began dating his Fantastic Four co-star Kate Mara, and in January 2017 the couple became engaged.
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Jamie Bell is a keen football fan and an avid supporter of Arsenal FC.