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Jaime Ray Newman is an Academy Award® winning producer and accomplished actress. As a producer, Newman and her husband, filmmaker Guy Nattiv, run New Native Pictures. Their short film SKIN won the 2019 Academy Award® for Best Live Action Short, along with many festivals around the world. It was acquired by FOX Searchlight.
The feature version, also entitled SKIN, stars Jamie Bell, Vera Farmiga and Danielle Macdonald, and premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival to significant acclaim, where it won the Fipresci Critics Prize. A24 distributed it around the world in July, 2019.
As an actress, Newman has been working steadily for almost 20 years. She was a series regular on multiple TV series, including The Punisher for Marvel/ Netflix, Midnight, Texas for NBC, Bates Motel for A&E, Eastwick (based on The Witches of Eastwick) for ABC, Eureka for SYFY, and most recently Midnight, Texas for NBC. Newman will next be seen in the feature film Valley of the Gods directed by Lech Majewski, starring opposite Josh Hartnett and John Malkovich, and Midnight Climax directed by Joseph Sorrentino.
In 2012, Newman made her Off-Broadway debut at The Atlantic Theater Company in New York City, starring in David Auburn's ("Proof") play "The New York Idea." In Los Angeles she has done several plays at the Geffen Theater, including "The Gift" opposite James Van Der Beek and Kathy Baker and "Some Girls," written and directed by Neil LaBute. She starred opposite David Schwimmer in "Turnaround" at the Coast Playhouse.
Newman is a graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
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She studied acting at the prestigious Interlochen Music and Arts Camp, and for many years held the lead in the summer play performances.
She went to college at Boston University & Northwestern University.
Jaime earned a living as a jazz singer before getting her role on
General Hospital (1963).
She formed her own production company in Detroit called "Apollo Productions", where she produced three plays over two years.
She has a soul/funk/rock band, "School Boy Crush", that plays around Los Angeles, and is in the middle of writing an album.
She has been doing professional theatre since she was 12 years old.
At age 6, she sang at Bar-Mitzvah parties.
In 2003 she starred opposite
David Schwimmer and
Jonathan Silverman in the premiere of
Roger Kumble's hit play "Turnaround". Was the only female in the cast.
She is a graduate of the Cranbrook-Kingswood School in Bloomfield, Michigan - the same high school of which
Selma Blair and
Elizabeth Berkley are alumnae.
Is a redhead.
Cousin of actor
Ben Kurland.
She has starred in two plays by
Neil LaBute at The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. "Fat Pig", directed
Jo Bonney, and "Some Girls", directed by
Neil LaBute.
Studied directing at Northwestern University.
Her parents are both from Ashkenazi Jewish families (from Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Russia, and England).
Mother, with husband
Guy Nattiv, of daughters Alma Ness Newman Nattiv (b. September 18, 2018) and Mila Nico Newman Nattiv (b. October 3, 2019). Both girls were born through the help of surrogate mother.
Married
Guy Nattiv on her 34th birthday that on April 2, 2012.
In August 2013, Newman was nine months pregnant with a baby girl when she went into labor. She arrived to the maternity ward at Cedars Sinai where it was found out that her baby had no heartbeat, and she lost her girl in a stillbirth. After subsequent years of IVF treatments, and four more miscarriages, she turned to surrogacy and welcomed daughters Alma and Mila in September 2018 and October 2019, respectively.
Jaime Ray Newman and her husband, Israeli director Guy Nattiv, won their first Academy Award on Feb. 24, 2019. They received the Oscar for their short film "Skin," a 20-minute elegy about racism in America.
A second daughter, Mila Nico Newman Nattiv, was born October 3, 2018 via surrogate, weighing 1lb 9oz.
Daughter Mila was born 15 weeks earlier.
Daughter Alma's middle name Ness means "miracle" in Hebrew.