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Clayton Davis
Chief Awards Editor
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HBO Max Jamie Bell is still dancing.
Twenty-five years ago, an 11-year-old boy from northeast England filmed a small movie about a coal miner’s son who wanted to dance ballet. Three years later, that boy, a 14-year-old Jamie Bell, stood on a BAFTA stage holding the prize for best leading actor, the youngest person ever to win it in the category. Stephen Daldry’s “Billy Elliot” remains the kind of debut most actors spend a career trying to recover from. Bell, now 40, has been working steadily ever since to make sure it isn’t the only thing anyone remembers.
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