Jamie comes from either the personal of dancers including his grandma, mother, auntie & sister. It was at his sister's dance practices that he would have outside a door & imitate a movements of the dancers in. At age vi, he was encouraged to step in a door & so his dance career began. His have story parallels that of Billy Elliot therein Jamie saved his dancing the secret from either his friends at school. His mother got him once she was Xvi, & alas, he never knew his father.

While he met Stephen Daldry, director of Billy Elliot (2000), Jamie adopted him as his father. When a word all about his terpsichore had out, he was harassed, however this sole manufactured him other determined to prove that dancing wasn't upright for girls. Jamie landed a name part of Billy Elliot, winning a role around an audition that involved extra than 2000 boys from either a northeastern England. His following performance justified a choice when he has non exclusively won the hearts of motion-picture fan the lot on top the world, he has too been nominated for, & won a dull of awards including a Right Newcomer Award and so a Right Male Performance at the BAFTA awards.

Bell starred in the 2005 film, The Chumscrubber, in which he played the ill-affected Southern California teenager. He experienced to see training speak by having an American accent for the role.

Facts
Began dancing once he was sise. Dancers keep around been inside his personal for ages. His sister, his mother, grannie, & aunty 100% danced prior to him. 1st decided to work once he was nine. Number one acting performance is reported to become a share of the London stage production of Bugsy Malone in Christmas 1998. Was titillated by class fellow once it encountered retired that Jamie took ballet, and known as him "Ballerina Boy." Once he won Better Actor at a 2001 British Academy Awards, not simply did he beat a Better Actor Oscar winner of that year, Russell Crowe, but a more deuce-ace campaigner he beat retired - Tom Hanks, Michael Douglas, and Geoffrey Rush -- also experienced won a Better Actor Oscar within retiring years. Lasts inside Billingham with his mother, Eileen, and older sister, Cathryn. He has there are no call for using his father, John, whom his mother divorced prior to Jamie was natural. Was chosen away from 2000 boys to play Billy Elliot over a series of sevener auditions. Criteria that a casting director was wanting to find were acting ability, dancing ability, & the right Northern English accent. Exclusively the 2nd actor ever to exist as awarded Great Performance by a Young Actor from either http://www.nbrmp.org (National Board of Review of Motion Pictures). A foremost was fellow Brit Christian Bale in 1987 (titled Great Juvenile Performance so). Prefers tap dancing over ballet. Has been around numbers of tap-dancing competitions & won numbers of awards. Was Honorary Jury President of the 2001 Giffoni Film Festival. a previous student at the Stagecoach Theater School. He became concerned within baseball when he visited the United States for the first period, & he began collecting everthing of the teams' jerseys. Appeared in the videos for "Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day.

Filmography
Close & True (TV) (2000) Billy Elliot (2000) Deathwatch (2002) Nicholas Nickleby (2002) Undertow (2004) Dear Wendy (2005) The Chumscrubber (2005) King Kong (2005) Flags of Our Fathers (2006) Hallam Foe (2006)