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Early life
Newman was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan, to a Jewish family.[1][2] to parents Marsha Jo and Raphael Newman.[3][4] She has one sister, Beth Nicole, a global public relations director at J Brand.[5][6] Newman started performing at age eleven in the debut of Israel Horovitz's play A Rosen by Any Other Name.[7] She worked consistently around Detroit, acting in many of the regional theaters. Newman received her elementary education at the Jewish Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit,[8] where she starred as Ado Annie Carnes in an eighth-grade play of Oklahoma!.

After Hillel, Newman attended the private Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan,[9] and spent her summers at the Interlochen Center for the Arts where she won the Corson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting.[10] While in high school at Cranbrook, she won first place in the Michigan Interscholastic Forensic Association, a statewide dramatic competition, for three years in a row. At age 16, Newman founded Apollo Theatre Productions, serving as both a producer and director.[11] She graduated from Cranbrook in 1996. Newman then attended Boston University College of Fine Arts' theater conservatory for two years, before transferring to Northwestern University as an English and drama major.[2][7]

At Northwestern, she founded the Ignition Festival for Women in the Arts. Through that, she produced and acted in Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned to Drive. While living in Chicago, she performed with her own jazz quartet.[12] Newman moved to Los Angeles in September 2000. Her cousin is actor Ben Kurland.



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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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Guy Nattiv (2 April 2012 - present) ( 2 children)
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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.
 

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Personal life
Newman married Israeli writer and director Guy Nattiv in Tel Aviv, on April 2, 2012 (her 34th birthday). They have two daughters.[37][38][39]


BornApril 2, 1978 (age 42)
Farmington Hills, Michigan, U.S.
Alma materNorthwestern University
OccupationActress, producer, singer
Years active2000–present
Spouse(s)Guy Nattiv (m. 2012)
Children2
RelativesBen Kurland (cousin)

Jaime Ray Newman (born April 2, 1978) is an American actress, producer and singer. She is known for starring as Kristina Cassadine in the soap opera General Hospital, Mindy O'Dell in the drama series Veronica Mars, Kat Gardener in the fantasy series Eastwick, Lt. Laura Cadman in the science-fiction series Stargate Atlantis, Tess Fontana in the science-fiction series Eureka, Kat Petrova in the drama-thriller series Red Widow, Sam Gordon in the comedy-drama series Mind Games, Allison Roth in the crime drama series Wicked City, and Sarah Lieberman in the Marvel series The Punisher.

Along with her husband Guy Nattiv, she won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2019 for producing the drama Skin (2018).

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Born April 2, 1978 in Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA
Birth NameJaime Ray Newman
Height5' 4" (1.63 m)
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Jaime Ray Newman originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. She is a graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

She has held major roles in several shows, including Netflix/Marvel series The Punisher (2017), A&E's Bates Motel (2013), ABC's Wicked City (2015), Mind Games (2014), Red Widow (2013), as well as ABC's Eastwick (2009), based on The Witches of Eastwick (1987). She has also guest starred on Major Crimes (2012), Satisfaction (2014), Bosch (2014), Drop Dead Diva (2009), Grimm (2011), CSI: NY (2004), NCIS (2003), Eureka (2006), Veronica Mars (2004), and Nip/Tuck (2003).

Newman is seen in the feature film Valley of the Gods (2019) directed by Lech Majewski opposite Josh Hartnett and John Malkovich. Her other film credits include Catch Me If You Can (2002), Rubberneck (2012), the independent movie Altered Minds (2013) opposite Judd Hirsch, as well the animated film Tarzan (2013).

In 2011, she made her Off-Broadway debut at The Atlantic Theater Company in New York City, starring in David Auburn's (Proof (2005)) 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 lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Guy Nattiv.
 
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