Billy Elliot cast now – bowel cancer, Green Day cameo and money struggles
dailystar.co.ukBAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.The star celebrates his 36th birthday today (March 14), so Daily Star is taking it all the way back to where it all started for him.The film was released in September 2000 and was a huge commercial success which raked up a massive $109,280,263 (£83.8m) despite smaller expectations.While Jamie has gone on to have a successful career and full family life, his co-stars haven't always had it quite as good.Here, we take a look at what Jamie and his co-stars have been up to in the years that followed the film.Jamie Bell went on to land huge film roles in movies such as The Adventures of Tintin, Fantastic Four, King Kong, Snowpiercer and Elton John’s biopic Rocketman.He married actress Evan Rachel Wood in 2012, with the couple meeting after they starred in Green Day’s Wake Me Up When September Ends music video in 2005.Jamie and Evan have a son together, who was born in 2013, and a year later they announced their separation.By late 2015, Jamie was dating his Fantastic Four co-star Kate Mara, and they got engaged in January 2017.They announced they had got married in July 2017 and welcomed a daughter together in May 2019.Acting legend Julie Walters was cast to play Billy Elliot’s hard-working ballet teacher and she did not disappoint.During her role as Sandra Wilkinson she taught the young hopeful how to dance and encouraged him to join the Royal Ballet School.Sandra quickly became one of the most iconic characters in the film, but outside of Billy Elliot, Julie has had a very impressive career.She began acting in the mid-eighties, with her breakout role opposite Michael Caine in Educating Rita.Since then, she has gone on to bring life to the roles of Molly Weasley in Harry Potter, the.
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