I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.

King made her first appearance in a large Hollywood production with her role as the seventeen-year-old nurse Betty in the World War II epic romance Pearl Harbor (2001). After five auditions a screen test and a physical test Jaime King landed the role of Jade a character skilled in martial arts. com.

In her modeling career and early film roles Jaime King used the names Jamie King and James King which was a childhood nickname given to King by her parents because her agency already represented another Jaime — the older then-more famous model Jaime Rishar. Her first major role was in Pearl Harbor (2001) and her first starring movie role was in Bulletproof Monk (2003).