Fifteen years ago, when he was plucked from obscurity to play the role of ballet-dancing Billy Elliot in the hit film, Jamie Bell felt like the luckiest boy in the world. He was so grateful to the man who discovered him - the film's flamboyant director Stephen Daldry - that he promptly left his down-to-earth family in Teesside and moved in with Daldry and his then partner, stage designer Ian MacNeil. It was an intense relationship, with Daldry assuming the role of surrogate dad to a teenager whose biological father had never played any role in his life. Scroll down for video
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Fifteen years ago, Jamie Bell felt like the luckiest boy in the world
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Was plucked from obsurity to play Billy Elliott
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Married actress Evan Rachel Wood two years ago and had son
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But pair recently split
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Her bisexuality seems to be at heart of separation
@placeholder also joined his girlfriend as a vocal campaigner for gay rights, seemingly comfortable with her bisexuality.