Jamie Bell

JAMIE BELL shot to worldwide fame starring in the title role of Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot. Among the many honors he received for his performance were the BAFTA for Best Actor, and the British Independent Film Award for Best Newcomer.

He went onto play Charles Dickens' memorable character "Smike" in writer/director Douglas McGrath's screen adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby, for which he and his colleagues shared the National Board of Review Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble.

His subsequent films include David Gordon Green's Undertow, Thomas Vinterberg's Dear Wend,; Peter Jackson's epic King Kong, and Clint Eastwood's acclaimed Flags of Our Fathers, in which he portrayed real-life WWII hero "Ralph Ignatowski."

Among his other films are David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe (a.k.a. Mister Foe) for which he earned a British Independent Film Award nomination, and a BAFTA (Scotland) Award for Best Actor; Arie Posin'sThe Chumscrubber; Doug Liman's Jumper and Edward Zwick's Defiance.

He starred in Kevin Macdonald's The Eagle, opposite Channing Tatum and Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre opposite Mia Wasikowska & Michael Fassbender. He also completed work on Carl Tibbetts' The Retreat, starring opposite Cillian Murphy and Thandie Newton.

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, in which he stars as Herge's legendary young adventurer "Tintin" for director Steven Spielberg in the highly anticipated motion-capture production filmed in 3-D, opposite Daniel Craig & Andy Serkis, having broken Box Office records in Europe.

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