Jamie Bell random trivia

First acting performance is reported to be part of the London stage production of Bugsy Malone in Christmas 1998. 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.