Jaime King

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Jaime King
King in 2008
Born (1979-04-23) April 23, 1979 (age 45)
Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Other names
  • James King
  • Jamie King
  • Jaime King-Newman
Occupations
Years active1993–present
Spouse
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​
(m. 2007; div. 2023)​
Children2
Modeling information
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Agency

Jaime Barbara King[2] (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), 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 life

King was born on April 23, 1979, in the suburbs of

beauty queen, and Robert King. She has an older sister Sandi, an older brother Barry and a younger brother Robert (Robbie).[3] King was named after Lindsay Wagner's character, Jaime Sommers, on the 1970s television series The Bionic Woman.[4][5] King's parents separated in 1994.[6]

King attended

University of Nebraska.[6][7]

Modeling career

King was discovered in November 1993, at age 14,

model agent Michael Flutie, King was invited to New York City to begin modelling professionally.[3][9] 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.

King had a successful early career as a fashion model, and by age 15 she had been featured in the fashion magazines

New York Times Magazine published on February 4, 1996,[10][6] 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."[6]

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,[11] banking on their spokeswomen's "collective star power" to sell the cosmetics products.[12] 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.[13]

Acting career

Early work (1998–2004)

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.[14] 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.[15]

King at the Hawaiian premiere of Pearl Harbor in May 2001

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".[16] King went on to be featured in the Incubus music video "Wish You Were Here".[17] The roles King took part in during 2001 garnered her the "New Stylemaker" title at the Young Hollywood Awards.[18]

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

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.[17]

In 2004, she appeared in the comedy

BET Comedy Awards.[20]

Breakthrough (2005–09)

In 2005, King appeared in a variety of film and television roles. She first appeared in the independent

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".[4] 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.[4]

King at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2008

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."[21] 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.[citation needed]

On television, she had a guest appearance on the teen drama

situation comedy Kitchen Confidential. King was featured in the Zach Braff-directed music video for Gavin DeGraw's "Chariot".[17]

In 2006, King appeared with a small role as Heather in the comedy

People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Comedy.[22]

In 2007, King filmed

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 created by Will Eisner. The role reunited King with Sin City writer Frank Miller, who wrote and directed the film.[24] In May 2008, King featured in another Newman-directed film, Act I of The Cube, the beginning of an online movie-making contest.[25]

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)

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!.[26]

From 2009–2012, King starred in the TV series

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".[28]

In 2011, King landed the role of Lemon Breeland in the

CW show Hart of Dixie, which premiered on September 26, 2011.[29] 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."[30]

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:

We Are The Fallen.[32]

In the late 2010's King starred in films such as the dark

Transformers: Power of the Primes
.

Black Summer and film roles (2020–present)

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.[33]

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.[34]

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.[35]

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.[36]

In 2024, King starred in Lights Out, an ensamble 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.[37]

Personal life

From 1997-1998, King dated fashion photographer Davide Sorrenti, who died from a kidney ailment.[38] In 2000, she dated singer Kid Rock.[38]

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[39] and got engaged in 2007. They married in November 2007[40] at Greystone Mansion, where Newman had proposed.[41] 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).[42] Taylor Swift is godmother to son Leo.[43]

In May 2020, King filed for divorce from Newman after 14 years of marriage.[44] King also filed a domestic violence prevention petition and was granted a temporary restraining order against Newman,[44] which was later withdrawn.[45] The divorce was finalized in September 2023.[46] In March 2025, Newman was awarded sole physical custody and King was mandated to complete a 6-month substance rehabilitation program.[47]

King’s struggles with addiction began when she started using heroin at age 14, which was given to her in her by a photo assistant on one of her first modelling jobs.[38] 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."[48]

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.”[49] King made the decision to leave the modelling industry at age 18.

Filmography

Film
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
TBA How to Cook Your Daughter[50]
Television
Year Title Role Notes
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
Music videos
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
As director
Year Title Notes
2011 The Break In Short film
2011 Latch Key Short film; also writer

Awards and nominations

Year Ceremony Category Work Result
2001 Young Hollywood Awards New Stylemaker – Female N/A Won
2003 DVD Exclusive Awards Best Actress
Happy Campers
 		Nominated

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