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JAMES KING BIOGRAPHY |
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A successful model (and, despite her masculine-sounding first
name, most certainly not a man), James King has gone from
gracing the pages of the world's leading fashion magazines to a
promising career as an actress. Jaime King (James is a stage
name) was born in Omaha, NE, in 1979; King's statuesque beauty
became evident at a young age, and in her early teens, she began
attending a local modeling school. When King was 14, a
representative from a New York modeling agency saw her in a
show, and a year later King's career was in high gear. King's
picture had appeared in Vogue, Glamour, Allure, Harper's Bazaar,
and Mademoiselle before she'd reached the age of 17, and she'd
also become an in-demand runway model, with her lean good looks
being used to promote the latest designs from Christian Dior,
Marithe and Francois Girbaud, and Chanel. However, after rising
to fame, King succumbed to the pressures and temptations of the
high-pressure world of modeling, and she began to abuse alcohol
and drugs, leading to a brief addiction to heroin; King had also
become romantically involved with photographer David Sorrenti,
and after he died of a drug overdose in 1997, King was inspired
to get clean and sober and has remained drug-free since then.
In 1999, King made her first forays into acting with an
appearance in "Take a Picture," a video for the rock band Filter,
and a small role in the film Four Faces of God. Two years later,
King's acting career really took flight, with appearances in the
critically acclaimed Blow, the blockbuster Pearl Harbor, and the
teen-horror satire Happy Campers. In 2002, King played a major
supporting role in Slackers, and was cast alongside Hong Kong
action legend Chow Yun-Fat in Bulletproof Monk (2003). King also
appearred periodically as a host on the MTV series House of
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