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Jaime Murray

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Jaime Murray is a British actress, activist and television producer who lives and works in Los Angeles California. Trained at Drama Centre London before playing con artist Stacie Monroe in the BBC series Hustle upon graduation in 2004. The role of Lila West in the Showtime series Dexter took her to Los Angeles in 2007 where she has since lived and worked. Jaime is developing a limited TV series about the The Life and Death of John Allen Chau. The series will tell the story of the 26-year old Chinese American, who believed he was called by God to save the souls of the last 'uncontacted tribe' on earth by converting them to Christianity. She will exec produce with UCP, Littleton Road Productions and Activist Artists Management. Known for playing Stahma Tarr in the Syfy series Defiance (2013-2015), The Black Fairy in the ABC series Once Upon a Time (2016-2017), Antoinette in The CW series The Originals (2018), and Nyssa al Ghul in Gotham (2019), Gaia in the Starz miniseries Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (2011), Olivia Charles in The CW series Ringer (2011-2012), Helena G. Wells in the Syfy series Warehouse 13 (2010-2014)
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Murray is named after the character Jaime Sommers in The Bionic Woman (1976). In Warehouse 13 (2009), Murray appears in several episodes alongside guest star, Lindsay Wagner, who played Jaime Sommers in The Bionic Woman (1976).
Studied Philosophy and Psychology at the London School of Economics and originally intended on being a Child Psychologist before training at the Drama Centre London in 2000.
Is named after "Jaime Sommers", the character Lindsay Wagner played in The Bionic Woman (1976); Jaime worked with American actress Lindsay Wagner who played Jaime Sommers the Bionic woman and she explained that the character was originally intended to be named "Jamie", but Wagner misspelled the name during a special effects shot on The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), and the producer decided to retain the new spelling, rather than incur the extra cost of re-shooting.
Jaime Murray is the daughter of UK actor Billy Murray and acted in her first job with him in 1982. Paul Annette, the director of the television series 'Grass' was looking for a little boy to play Billy's son and asked Jaime, who was three years old at the time, if she would do the role. She said yes, not knowing the part was for a little boy. She was really annoyed when she found out because she didn't like boys at the time.

I can't even watch horror movies - I have to turn the music down!
I feel as though, as an actor, you can only make brave choices when you're acting with people that you're so relaxed with that you can make a mistake.
I'm not the best gamer - I think you need to be strategic and level-headed, and you need to remain calm under pressure... and I don't really have those qualities!
If I had known how much I hate auditioning, I doubt I would have become an actress.
I try to really focus on the actors I'm working with and kind of read and respond to their behavior.

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