Jaye Davidson

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Jaye Davidson (* 21st March 1968 in Riverside in California as Alfred Amey ) is in the US -born British actor and model .

biography

His mother is from England and his father from Ghana . When he was two and a half years old, he moved with his family to Hertfordshire , England, where he grew up in a middle-class white environment. His parents separated when he was very young. Jaye stayed with his mother and was raised a Roman Catholic . He dropped out of school at the age of 16 and earned his living doing odd jobs, including working as a hairdresser and model. It has always been his wish to become a fashion designer .

Jaye Davidson was discovered at the closing party for the set of Derek Jarman's 1991 film Edward II for one of the lead roles in Neil Jordan's film The Crying Game . Shortly before, he had lost his last job with the bankrupt fashion designers David and Elizabeth Emanuel , who had designed the wedding dress for Diana Spencer's wedding to Prince Charles , among other things . According to his own statement, Jaye Davidson was initially not very enthusiastic about his acting career, but was dependent on it because of his financial plight. The Crying Game was a huge hit in 1992 and even earned it an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 1993 . After that, however, there were no further offers.

In 1994 - meanwhile penniless again - he played the role of Ra in Roland Emmerich's Stargate alongside Kurt Russell and James Spader , which he said brought him a million dollars. In 1994 he appeared in the TV production Jiggery Pokery (with Ute Lemper and Siobhan Fahey ) and was seen in Catwalk in 1996 , a documentary made in 1993 about three working weeks by model Christy Turlington . After that, he stopped working as an actor, except for a role in the short film The Borghilde Project from 2009.

Davidson is openly gay. In the early 1990s, he said of himself that his androgynous appearance would alienate him from the gay scene. “ Homosexual men like masculine men. And I am not a masculine person. I am pretty thin. I have long hair, which doesn't go down very well with gay men. “Later he changed to a more masculine look with bald head, tattoos and a more muscular stature.

Filmography

  • 1992: The Crying Game
  • 1994: Stargate
  • 1994: Jiggery Pokery (TV)
  • 1996: Catwalk (Documentation)
  • 2009: The Borghilde Project (short film)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jaye talking : Interview with Jaye Davidson (1994)
  2. ↑ Jeff Giles: The Open Secret - In A Rare Interview, Jaye Davidson Leaves Nothing To The Imagination When Discussing The Oscar-Nominated Film, `The Crying Game '. In: The Seattle Times . March 22, 1993, accessed May 1, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Where are they now - Jaye Davidson . ( Memento from November 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) virginmedia.com from 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Davidson, Jaye
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amey, Alfred (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Riverside