- Prefers tap dancing over ballet. Has been in many tap-dancing competitions and won many awards.
- Met his former wife Evan Rachel Wood while filming Green Day's music video for "Wake Me Up When September Ends", where they played an actual couple.
- When he won Best Actor at the 2001 British Academy Awards (BAFTAs), not only did he beat the Best Actor Oscar winner of that year, Russell Crowe, but the other three nominees he beat out - Tom Hanks, Michael Douglas and Geoffrey Rush - had also won the Best Actor Oscar in past years.
- Only the second actor ever to be awarded Outstanding Performance by a Young Actor from the National Board of Review, USA. The first was fellow Brit Christian Bale in 1987 (then titled Outstanding Juvenile Performance) for Empire of the Sun (1987).
- Was chosen out of 2000 boys to play "Billy Elliot" over a series of seven auditions. Criteria that the casting director was looking for were acting ability, dancing ability and the right Northern English accent.
- Started dancing when he was six. Dancers have been in his family for ages. His sister, his mother, grandmother, and aunt all danced before him.
- Very good friends with Anne Hathaway, Romola Garai and Charlie Hunnam whom he met while filming Nicholas Nickleby (2002).
- First decided to act when he was nine.
- Divides his time between London and New York.
- Since April 2015, in a relationship with Kate Mara.
- Became a father for the 1st time at age 27 when wife Evan Rachel Wood gave birth to their son on July 29, 2013.
- A former student at the Stagecoach Theater School.
- Was teased by classmates when they found out that Jamie took ballet, and called him "Ballerina Boy".
- Married his on/off partner of 7 years, Evan Rachel Wood, on October 30, 2012.
- First acting performance is reported to be part of the London stage production of Bugsy Malone in Christmas 1998.
- Engaged to Kate Mara [June 5, 2017]. They married that year.
- Lived in Billingham with his mother Eileen and older sister Cathryn. He had no contact with his father John whom his mother divorced before Jamie was born.
- Was considered for Peter Parker/Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), before the role went to Andrew Garfield. On June 7, 2010, Rich Johnston of Bleeding Cool reported that Sony had decided to cast Jamie in the role, a story carried by most film news sites. In both the 2010 and 2015 casting cycles for Spider-Man, no actor reported by film websites as being all-but-confirmed for the role has ever ended up actually cast as Spider-Man. The other actors erroneously reported to have been cast are Logan Lerman (in April 2010), Josh Hutcherson (on June 30, 2010, one day before the official casting of Andrew Garfield), Dylan O'Brien (in March 2015), and Asa Butterfield (in May 2015).
- He became interested in baseball when he visited the United States for the first time, and he began collecting all of the teams' jerseys.
- Good friends with Camilla Belle and Mia Wasikowska.
- Was ranked #19 on Entertainment Weekly's '30 Under 30' the actors list.(2008).
- Starred alongside Chris Evans in Snowpiercer (2013). Chris Evans was one of the main characters in the latest installment of Marvel's Fantastic Four franchise, and Jamie Bell plays Ben Grimm/The Thing in Fantastic Four (2015).
- Named among Fade In Magazine's "100 People in Hollywood You Need to Know" in 2005.
- Was Honorary Jury President of the 2001 Giffoni Film Festival.
- Arsenal is his favorite British soccer team.
- Was in a relationship with Evan Rachel Wood (June 2005-September 2006).
- He was accompanied by his then girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood to the King Kong (2005) premiere in New York.
- Filming Hallam Foe (2007) in Edinburgh & Glasgow. (April 2006)
- Son-in-law of Ira David Wood III and Sara Wood.
- Brother-in-law of Ira David Wood IV and Dana Wood.
- He won a Scottish Bafta for his role in Hallam Foe.
- As of 2018, has never appeared in a film nominated for the the Best Picture Oscar.
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