12 Mega Movie Stars Appearing In Essential 2014 TV Shows

6. Jamie Bell - Turn

You know him from: Billy Elliot (2000), King Kong (2005), The Adventures of Tintin (2011) Talk about a big break: County Durham lad Jamie Bell was picked from a field of two-thousand eager hopefuls to play 11-year-old Billy Elliot in the critically acclaimed British drama of the same name €“ a debut role which earned him nine nominations and ten awards, including a BAFTA for Best Actor in a Leading Role €“ catapulting him straight to international stardom at age fourteen. You can look forward to seeing Bell star in AMC's upcoming period drama Turn, which is based on Alexander Rose's book Washington Spies. Set in 1776, a critical year in the American Revolutionary War, Bell plays Abe Woodhull, a New York farmer who helps form the Culper Ring with his childhood friends: an unlikely group of spies who are instrumental in turning the tide of the war against the British €“ yep, just another British actor playing an American hero fighting British villains.