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BILLY Elliot’s Jamie Bell is an English actor married to actress Kate Mara.
The pair have been together since 2015 while working on the set of Fantastic Four; they married two years later.
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Who is Jamie Bell?
Andrew James “Jamie” Matfin Bell, 34, has been an actor for many years.
He was born in Birmingham, England, on March, 14, 1986.
He is known for his leading role in The Adventures Of Tintin and as Ben Grimm/Thing in Fantastic Four.
Bell earned a Bafta award for Billy Elliot - a role that gained him recognition and numerous accolades.
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His interest in dance began when he accompanied his sister to her ballet lessons and he was plucked from 2,000 boys to play the lead role in 2000 at the age of 14.
In 2000 he also starred as Mark Sheedy in British TV miniseries Close & True.
From 2014 to 2017 he starred as Abraham Woodhull in the AMC historical drama series Turn: Washington's Spies.
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When did he star in Billy Elliot?
Bell became popular for starring in the 1999 film, Billy Elliot.
The movie is about an 11-year-old boy who dismays his working class widowed father and elder brother by taking up ballet.
The film earned three Academy Award nominations, including for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
It went on to become a novel adaptation and a Broadway musical in 2008.
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When did he marry Kate Mara?
Bell and actress Kate Mara married in the summer of 2017.
Mara told the Tonight Show that Bell learned a special dance for their wedding day and it was “the most romantic thing” he had done.
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Kate said: “For our wedding, for example, the most romantic thing he’s ever done for me so far, was for our wedding dance.
“I wanted to learn a swing dance with him because I love swing dancing. It took a lot of convincing because he hates dance lessons."
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She continued: “We spent about four weeks doing this swing dancing lesson and learning this whole dance and then literally the week before the wedding he was pacing around the room and I said, ‘What’s the matter,’ and he was like, ‘The choreography is just not good enough. We’ve got to scrap the dance.'
“We didn’t do it for the wedding. We ended up slow dancing to our favorite Mexican song, Mara added.”
They have one daughter together who was born in May 2019.
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Bell was previously married to actress Evan Rachel Wood and had a son together in 2013.
The couple divorced the following year in May.
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What other films has he been in?
As well as Billy Elliot, The Adventures Of Tintin and Fantastic Four, Bell has also been in King Kong and Jumper.
In 2018 he received a Bafta nomination for his performance in Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool.
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He played Bernie Taupin in Elton John biopic Rocketman and in 2021 can be seen as Robert Ritter in Without Remorse.
In 2018 he starred as Bryon Widner, a destitute young man, raised by racist skinheads, in Skin.