Jaime King (born April 23, 1979) is an American film actress and model. In her modeling career and early film roles, she went by the names Jamie King and most especially 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, because of the latter name, is sometimes referred to as the "Model with a man`s name".

King had a successful modeling career and was considered "One of the world`s top fashion models", appearing in Vogue, Mademoiselle, and Harper`s Bazaar. Afterwards, King began taking small film roles, her first large endeavor being the big-budget Pearl Harbor (2001), and later first starring role in Bulletproof Monk (2003). She has gone on to appear as a lead in various other films, and gained more notoriety after Sin City (2005), in which she will reprise her role for the sequel Sin City 2 (2009).


King was born in the suburbs of Omaha, Nebraska to mother Nancy H. King, a beauty queen, and father Robert R. King. She has an older sister, Sandi, and a younger brother, Barry, and was reputed to be named after Jaime Sommers of the 1970s television series, The Bionic Woman.[5][4] King`s parents split amicably in 1995, and the two continue to work together in Omaha where they rent out low-income apartments. King had attended the modeling school Nancy Bounds`s Studios and later dropped out of Westside High School in 1995 to pursue a modeling career in New York, afterwards enrolling in a home-study program run by the University of Nebraska.

During her first job modeling, King was turned onto heroin and had an addiction to the drug from age 14 to 19. In 1997, following the death of her boyfriend, younger brother of Mario Sorrenti, fashion photographer Davide Sorrenti (who at age 21 died of a kidney ailment that was thought to have been brought on by excessive heroin use) she became sober. King went to rehabilitation at age 19 for her addictions to heroin and alcohol.

King was rumored to have dated Sean Lennon, but she denied the rumors while on The Howard Stern Show. In September 2000, King dated Kid Rock and the couple made an appearance on a later recording of the Howard Stern Show. She was rumored to be linked with model Alex Burns, actor Jake Gyllenhaal in spring 2001, and Matt Damhave in 2002. In 2005, King dated Bradley Cooper whom she met while working on the television series Kitchen Confidential. She is currently engaged to Kyle Newman whom she met working on the film Fanboys that he was directing.

King is a fan of the music of Britney Spears, The Wu-Tang Clan, Rilo Kiley, Kate Joy, and Hot Hot Heat. She also enjoys surfing and claims to be friends with numerous musicians.

an interview published in 1996, King, after retiring from modeling, plans to be a writer or possibly a photographer. King currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

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