Jamie Walters (American actor/singer)

Infobox Musical artist
Name = Jamie Walters


Img_capt = Jamie at Six Flags.
Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = James Leland Walters Jr.
Born = birth date and age|1969|6|13

Origin = Boston, Massachusetts
Genre = Pop, Adult Contemporary, Rock
Associated_acts =
Occupation = Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer, Actor, Firefighter
Instrument = Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica
Years_active = 1991–present
Associated_acts = The Heights (TV series)
Label = Capitol, Atlantic
URL = [http://www.myspace.com/jamiewalters MySpace]

James Walters (born June 13, 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts), also known as Jamie Walters, is an actor and musician.

Jamie Walters started his screen career in 1988 with a commercial for Levi's 501 Jeans. This was followed by guest appearances on "Quantum Leap" and a bit role in "Everyday Heroes". His film debut came in 1991 with the movie "Shout", alongside John Travolta, Heather Graham, and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Jamie is perhaps best known for his role in the TV series "Beverly Hills, 90210" as Ray Pruit, and "The Heights", in which he also performed the theme song "How Do You Talk to an Angel?", an Emmy-nominated, chart-topping song in 1992/1993. He was cast in the role of musician Ray Pruit on "Beverly Hills, 90210" from October 1994 through November 1995. Through these successes, he has released three albums and performed in a few other small-scale movies through 2000.

With his residence in Los Angeles county, he pursued training, certification, and employment as a paramedic and worked with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. He is now working as a full-time firefighter/paramedic for the Los Angeles City Fire Department as of early 2004. Walters is focusing on his family and his career with the fire department but hopes to get back into music and acting sometime in the near future.

Favorite Artist & Influences

Tom Petty, Jimi Hendrix, The Black Crowes, Matthew Sweet, Steve Miller Band, John Lee Hooker, Bruce Springsteen and Counting Crows among others.

In 1995 said his favorite songs were American Girl by Tom Petty and Take the Money and Run by Steve Miller.

Favorite actors are Nicolas Cage, Sean Penn, Robert De Niro and Gary Oldman among others.

Personal life

Was engaged to Drew Barrymore in 1992. He broke up with her in 1993.

In 2002 he married Patty Walters. They met at Centinela Hospital, where they were both EMT's. Jamie and Patty have 3 children, all of which are girls.

Jamie also has a son named Noah from a previous relationship.

Quotes

*"I don't want to turn into someone like David Cassidy. Most people's impressions of those kind of guys are that they're cheezers. I'd like to think of myself as a lot more real than some of the pop stars I grew up watching." - 1992

*"Nobody wants to take an actor seriously as a musician. I'm totally expecting to get shit. Music has been my love forever. Playing the guitar to me is like therapy. And that's how I write most of my songs, too; it's my way of working through experiences I've had, working them out. Acting is cool and I love to do it, but you don't get the same back from it that you do from playing music." - 1994

*"I like combining acting and music. I also like playing characters that are similar to myself 'cause they're playing my music. It's sort of the best of both worlds." - 1995

*On his Beverly Hills, 90210 role as Ray Pruit: "At first he was like this sort of like the underdog he was this guy from the wrong side of the town, who didn't fit in with the Beverly Hills kids but he had his music and he was honest and all this stuff. And then they started twisting him into being like this abusive evil boyfriend. I was like you either have to change the character or you have to let me off the show, because I'm going out and I'm like trying to sell tickets on our tour, and there's like teenage girls out there who think, like they really think I'm an abusive guy you know, and they'd hold up signs saying like 'leave Donna alone' and that's like so not what I wanted". - 1999

*"People were so attached to those characters, and then when one of those characters starts abusing one of the other characters, people do get mad at you. I didn't throw Donna down the stairs but my character did. I kept having to remind people of that, you know...that it was a show, I played a character." - 2003

Filmography

* 1989 "Quantum Leap" as young Max
* 1990 "Everyday Heroes " as Erik Linderman
* 1991 "Shout" as Jesse Tucker
* 1992 "Bed & Breakfast" as Mitch
* 1992 "The Heights" as Alex O'Brien
* 1992 "Quantum Leap" as young Albert "Bingo" Calavicci
* 1994 "Beverly Hills, 90210" as Ray Pruit
* 1996 "God's Lonely Man" as Hustler
* 1998 "Chick Flick"
* 1999 "To Serve and Protect" as Jeremy
* 2000 "The Mumbo Jumbo" as Thomas Doubting

Discography

* 1994 "Jamie Walters"
* 1997 "Ride"
* 2002 "Believed"

External links

*imdb name|id=0910256|name=Jamie Walters