Jamie King
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Jamie Louise "Ja'mie" King ( jÉ-MAY) is a fictional character portrayed by actor Chris Lilley in the Australian comedy series We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year (2005), Summer Heights High (2007), Ja'mie: Private School Girl (2013), and the podcast series Ja'miezing (2021). Ja'mie was born in South Africa but lives in Kirribilli in the upper class North Shore region of Sydney, New South Wales.
Ja'mie is a student in Year 11 at Hillford Girls' Grammar Schoolâa fictional private school on Sydney's affluent North Shoreâwho is highly driven, charismatic, and accomplished but also narcissistic, neurotic, manipulative, and callous. The character was developed by Lilley with the assistance of comedian Ryan Shelton. Lilley developed the character's mannerisms by using recorded interviews with private schoolgirls and also eavesdropping. Lilley states that he didn't want teenage girls to watch it and think "that's such an older guy's view of teenagers".
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