Background
Davis was born and brought up in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, where he attended Carleton High School.
Davis was born and brought up in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, where he attended Carleton High School.
Foreign the American singer of the same name, see Jamie Davis (musician). Jamie Davis (born 18 April 1981) is an English actor. He is known for playing Harley Lawson in Football players" Wives and its spin-off, Football players" Wives: Extra Time, Leon Taylor in Hex and Max Walker in Casualty.
He used to play semi-professional football, and is a self-described supporter of Liverpool F.C. Davis started his acting career at the age of 16, in a production of Kes at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds.
His first professional acting role was as a football player in Trevor"s World of Sport.
He portrayed Harley for the whole of the third and fourth series of Football players" Wives and in two episodes of its spin-off, Football players’ Wives: Extra Time. Between the third and fourth series of Football players’ Wives, Davis appeared alongside John Malkovich in Colour Maine Kubrick (2005) and played Leon Taylor in the first season of Hex. He left Football players’ Wives to reprise the role of Leon in Hex season two.
Davis went on to play Davey in The Sarah Jane Adventures episode "Invasion of the Bane" and Steve Sharpe in The Amazing Mrs Pritchard.
He has also appeared in episodes of The Bill, Casualty, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps and Shameless. He has also appeared in an episode of the British Broadcasting Corporation drama Death in Paradise (series 2 episode 8).