Drake Bell

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Drake Bell
Image:Drake Bell 9.jpg
Drake Bell Performing
Birth name Jared Drake Bell
Born June 27 1986 (1986-06-27) (age 22)
Image:Flag of the United States.svg Orange County, California, U.S.
Occupation Actor, singer-songwriter, musician, guitarist, television director
Years active 1995 - present
Official site www.drakebell.com

Jared Drake Bell (born June 27, 1986), better known as Drake Bell, is an American actor, comedian, guitarist, and singer/songwriter. After beginning his career as a child actor in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he appeared on The Amanda Show and became well known among young audiences for his role on the series Drake & Josh. In addition to his acting, Bell has a growing career as a musician and released his debut album, Telegraph, independently in 2005. His second album, It's Only Time, was released in 2006 after signing with Universal/Motown. Bell is commonly associated with his friend Josh Peck, who co-starred with him in both The Amanda Show and Drake & Josh.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Career

Bell started acting at the age of six, and began playing the guitar (given lessons by The Who's Roger Daltrey[1]) at the age of thirteen. Which was when he got his first guitar.

[edit] Acting career

At 9 years old, Drake acted in the film Jerry Maguire as Jesse Remo. He also appeared in a small role in the Seinfeld episode "The Frogger" in 1998. In 2000, he was nominated for the Young Artist Award for "Best Performance in a TV Movie å or Pilot" in the "Supporting Young Actor" category for his role as Cage Redding in the made-for-television film The Jack Bull. During the early 2000s, Bell was a featured performer on The Amanda Show and made a guest appearance on the series The Nightmare Room, before being cast as Drake Parker on the Nickelodeon series Drake & Josh, which began airing in 2004. During this time period, he made a guest appearance as himself on Nickelodeon's Zoey 101, won a "Blimp Award" at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in the "Favorite Male TV Actor" category for Drake & Josh, directed part one of the Drake & Josh TV movie Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp, and had a role in the 2005 film Yours, Mine and Ours. Bell was also a judge for the Miss Teen USA 2006 pageant which aired on NBC on August 15, 2006. Drake was nominated for "Favorite Male TV Actor" at the 2007 Kids' Choice Awards, and won for the second year in a row.

Bell will be starring in the Lionsgate and Element comedy College directed by Deb Hagan. This film is being shot on location in New Orleans. Bell has signed a producing deal with Virtus Entertainment and will star in The Miracle of Santa Rosa, about an American who returns to his ancestral home in Italy to spread his father's ashes. Bell will also be in another Virtus Entertainment production, this one a mini-series titled Flying Tigers. The film is about a squadron of American pilots who fought the Japanese in Asia immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

[edit] Music career

Bell's debut album, Telegraph, was released independently on September 27, 2005. His song, "I Found a Way", which can be found on the album, is the theme song for Drake & Josh. Drake wrote the theme songs for the show Drake & Josh, and he also co-wrote and sang the theme song to iCarly "Leave It All To Me" with Miranda Cosgrove. He recently signed with Universal Records, on which his new single "I Know" was released on October 17 2006. Shooting for the video of "I Know" took place in October 2006. Drake's second album, entitled It's Only Time, was released on December 5th, 2006. Drake performed live on MTV's TRL the day after it was released. On October 16 2007 iTunes released a Radio Disney Single Edit Version of his song Makes Me Happy. This makes it the third version of this song. In 2007, Bell went on a Nextfest tour in support of It's Only Time, headlining alongside Aly & AJ and Corbin Bleu. In an interview with Gibson Lifestyle, he expressed that it wasn't the tour of his dreams. Referring to his fellow tour mates, Bell said, "They’re all nice people, and they do what they do well, I guess. This isn’t my scene, though."[2]

[edit] Personal life

On December 29, 2005, Bell was involved in a car accident on Los Angeles' Pacific Coast Highway. He was in the car with his friend Thomas. As his car was a 1966 Ford Mustang, the steering wheel was made of wood and metal, the seatbelts were only around the waist, and there were no airbags. Because of this, his face smashed into the steering wheel, resulting in a fractured neck, six dislodged teeth,a broken jaw, and a deep cut across his chin, leaving a two-and-a-half inch scars. Bell had to get plastic surgery to fix his face. In an interveiw Drake said that it was scary being hooked up to tubes, fed only liquids and not knowing whether he would be ok, or if he would have a deformed face.

Bell has been seen with a number of guitars on Drake & Josh. One being a copy of a Fender Stratocaster seen throughout Seasons 1 and 2 and two episodes in Season 3. 2 Squier by Fender Strat copys were seen in the Season 2 episode, Guitar, there was an all black one, and a red one but the red one wasn't played. Throughout Seasons 3 and 4, Bell's main instrument were 2 Gibson Les Paul Classics, in the show he mostly used a wine red one, but in a few episodes he was seen with a black one. He was also seen with various acoustic guitars and a Rickenbacker 325. Outside of the show for recording a touring he used an Orange Gretsch G6120 based on the Chet Atkins Model. He continues using his Black Les Paul Classic for touring but has rarely used the Wine Red one. He also owns another Gretsch guitar, a Red Sparkle Jet. He used that on The Amanda Show when he performed, that guitar he used mainly in the past. Although he was seen with it during one concert in his tour over the summer in NJ. He also uses Taylor Acoustics.

[edit] Filmography

Year Film Role Other notes Rated
1995 Drifting School Kenny Smith Film PG
The Neon Bible David (age 10) Film R
1996 Jerry Maguire Jesse Remo Film


1999 Dill Scallion Eugene Bob Film PG-13
Dragonworld: The Legend Continues Johnny Television movie
The Jack Bull Cage Redding Television movie
The Amanda Show Totally Kyle Television series, 1999–2002 G
2000 High Fidelity Young Rob Gordon
Perfect Game Bobby Jr. Direct-to-video
2001 Chasing Destiny Walter Television movie
2004 Drake & Josh Drake Parker Television series, 2004-2007
2005 Yours, Mine and Ours Dylan North Film
2005 Zoey 101 Himself Guest Role
2006 Drake & Josh Go Hollywood Drake Parker Television Movie PG
2007 Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp Drake Parker Television Movie PG
2008 College Kevin Brewer Film R
2008 Superhero! Rick Riker Film PG-13

[edit] Discography

Albums
Telegraph
  • Released: September 27, 2005 (U.S.)
  • Re-Released: August 7, 2007 (U.S.)
  • Label: Nine Yards Records
  • Chart positions: -
  • RIAA certification:
  • Worldwide sales:[citation needed]
It's Only Time
  • Released: December 5 2006 (U.S.)
  • Label: Universal Records
  • Chart positions: #81 (US)
  • U.S. sales:400,000 [1]
  • U.K sales: 200,000[citation needed]
  • Worldwide sales: 1,000,000[citation needed]
  • RIAA certification:[citation needed]
  • Official Singles:

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Nickelodeon Green-Lights Additional Episodes of TEENick's Drake & Josh for Hit Comedy Series' Fourth Season Launching This September. PRNewswire (2006-05-01). Retrieved on 2007-04-16.
  2. ^ Drake Bell: The Gibson Interview. Gibson Lifestyle (2007-08-28). Retrieved on 2007-09-12.</reBell's third album is slated for a Spring 2008 release. <ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117973363.html?categoryId=2721&cs=1 | title=Josh Peck and Drake Bell: Drake & Josh Grow Up | accessdate=2007-10-17 | date=2007-10-08 | format= | work= | publisher=Variety}}</li></ol></ref>
  • Drake Bell also helped his Drake & Josh co-star Miranda Cosgrove with the theme song to her hit TV show, iCarly.

[edit] External links

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