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Jamie Bell Trivia
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- 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.
- When he won Best Actor at the 2001 British Academy Awards, 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 -- also had won the Best Actor Oscar in past years.
- First decided to act when he was nine.
- Prefers tap dancing over ballet. Has been in many tap-dancing competitions and won many awards.
- He became interested in baseball when he visited the United States for the first time, and he began collecting all of the teams jerseys.
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