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". Called by
Complex magazine "one of the original model- turned-
actresses", King appeared in Vogue, Mademoiselle, and
Harper's Bazaar among other fashion magazines. Afterwards, she
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). In 2007, King filmed They Wait, an
upcoming Canadian horror-thriller film inspired by true events.
She stars as a mother attempting to find the truth and save her
son when threatened by spirits during the Chinese tradition of
Ghost Month. It was featured in the 2007 Toronto Film Festival,
but will not make a theatrical release until 2008. She has gone on
to appear as a lead in various other films, gaining more notoriety
after Sin City (2005), a role which she will reprise in the sequel
Sin City 2 (2009) ... more
