Background
Brandon Cole "Bam" Margera (pronounced as mɑrˈdʒɛərə/ or mar-jair-ə) was born on the 28th of September, 1979 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. His grandfather nicknamed him "Bam" at the age of three after his habit of running into walls.
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Brandon Cole "Bam" Margera (pronounced as mɑrˈdʒɛərə/ or mar-jair-ə) was born on the 28th of September, 1979 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. His grandfather nicknamed him "Bam" at the age of three after his habit of running into walls.
He attended East High School and cites friend Chris Raab as his only reason for attending high school.
Margera began shooting videos of himself and his friends skateboarding and doing stunts, which eventually turned into the CKY video series. He independently released CKY. CKY2K, CKY3 and CKY4 have also been released.
Following the CKY success, former Big Brother editor Jeff Tremaine noticed Margera's videos and drafted him into the team which would eventually become MTV's Jackass. Margera went on to appear in Jackass: "The Movie", "Jackass Number Two", and "Jackass 3D".
After Jackass, Margera was given his own MTV series entitled "Viva La Bam", which ran for five seasons between 2003–2005. Following the show, in 2007, Margera was engaged and the wedding was filmed for "Bam's Unholy Union" as a follow-up to "Viva la Bam".
In 2009, Margera appeared on "Nitro Circus".
In October 2010, Margera appeared in "Jackass 3D" and the movie broke box office records.
He is also sponsored by Speed Metal Bearings, Adio Footwear, and Fairman's Skateshop.
Margera began a weekly Sirius Satellite Radio show on Sirius channel 28 Faction on November 24, 2004 called "Radio Bam".
In 2005, Margera started a music label, Filthy Note Records, and has directed music videos for Clutch, Turbonegro, Viking Skull, Vains of Jenna and several for CKY. He also directed seven music videos, "Buried Alive By Love", "The Sacrament", "And Love Said No", and "Solitary Man",for the Finnish band HIM, and three for The 69 Eyes, "Lost Boys", "Dead Girls are Easy" and "Dead N Gone". He also plays the keyboard in a novelty band called Gnarkill along with Brandon DiCamillo, Jess Margera, Rich Vose and Matt Cole.
Since 2003, Margera has been a member of Team Element, the demonstration team for Element Skateboards.
Margera has written, produced and starred in three independent films. Margera co-wrote, directed and starred in "Haggard" (2003), an independent film based on real events in the life of his friend Ryan Dunn.
In late September 2008, Margera opened a bar/theater called "The Note", in his hometown of West Chester, Pennsylvania.
He also directed "Minghags", formerly titled "Kiss a Good Man's Ass".
Margera released a Christmas-themed movie entitled "Bam Margera Presents: Where Is Santa?" in December 2008.
Missy and Bam married on February 3, 2007, at the Loews Hotel in downtown Philadelphia. In October 2010, Margera told Howard Stern he and Missy were living in separate cities, they meet once a week and Missy knows about his girlfriend in San Francisco and another in West Chester. In 2011, the two were spotted together following Margera's Jackass co-star and best friend, Ryan Dunn's, death. There is much speculation that Missy and Bam are in fact now divorced. This is due to in part to Missy's lack of public appearance, but mostly to the fact that Bam is publicly in a relationship with another woman. There has been no official announcement from either party. On November 1, 2012, Perez Hilton reported on an announcement supposedly made by Missy on her Twitter account that her divorce from Margera had been finalized. The couple divorced in November 2012.
On October 5, 2013, Margera married Nicole Boyd in Reykjavík, Iceland.
