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Drake Bell is a rapper wanna be. He is married to a sewer rat named Backy. She has asdfajlskdfjalalidosis, a life-threatening disease for rats and ugly people. Drake Bell is also being tested. He wears ugly everything. He is unattractive. Drake is an octagonal prism. Drake enjoys being dorky, eating spinach, getting fat, and playing golf.
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| Years_active = 1994–present
| Label = Nine Yards (2005)<br>] (2006–present)
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'''Jared Drake Bell'''{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} (born June 27, 1986), better known as''' Drake Bell''', is an ] ], ], ], ], ], and occasional ]. Bell is commonly associated with his real-life best friend ], who co-starred with him in both '']'', with ], and '']''. After beginning his career as a ] 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 co-wrote and performed the theme song to ''Drake & Josh'', entitled "Found a Way". In 2005 he independently released his debut album, '']''. His second album, '']'', was released in 2006 after signing with ].

==Personal life==
Drake Bell was born in ].

===Car accident===
On December 29, 2005, Bell was involved in a ] on ]' ]. He was driving with a friend when a truck ran a red light and caused a head-on collision. This resulted in a fractured neck, a jaw broken in three places, six missing teeth and several facial lacerations. The doctor said it was not life threatening according to an interview in 2006. After recovering, Bell underwent plastic surgery to reverse the cosmetic effects of the crash. He said that the crash was somewhat of a positive influence on his career because it helped him to appreciate the little things in life.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvsquad.com/2005/12/31/drake-bell-seriously-injured-in-car-crash/ |title=Drake Bell Seriously Injured In Car Accident |accessdate= |date= |format= |work= |publisher=}}</ref>

==Career==
===Acting===
Bell first appeared in a 1992 episode of '']'' entitled "Dancing to the Max" which is only on television around mothers day. He then appeared in the film '']'' as Jesse Remo in 1996, and had a small role in the '']'' episode "]" in 1998. In 1999, he acted in a commercial for ] and in the movie ]. In 2000, he was nominated for the Young Artist Award for "Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot" in the "Supporting Young Actor" category for his role as Cage Redding in the ] film ''The Jack Bull''. During the early 2000s, Bell was a featured performer on '']'' and made a guest appearance on the series '']'', before being cast as Drake Parker on the ] series '']'', which began airing in 2004. During this time period, he made a guest appearance as himself on Nickelodeon's '']'' and won the first of three consecutive "Blimp Awards" at the ] in the "Favorite TV Actor" category. In 2005, Bell co-starred alongside fellow '']'' actress ] with ] in '']''. In the spring of 2008, Bell had a starring role in the comedy spoof film '']''. In August 2008, he appeared in the comedy '']'', which was shot ] in ]. Bell has signed a producing deal with Virtus Entertainment and will star in ''The Miracle of Santa Rosa''. Bell will also be in another Virtus Entertainment production, this one a mini-series titled '']''. Bell recently starred in '']'' alongside Josh Peck, which began production in July 2008, and premiered on December 5, 2008. He recently guest starred in the online webseries titled ]. <ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.take180.com/ep/1ncq7r/qmo?autoplay=true&utm_source=fb&utm_medium=cpm&utm_campaign=drake |title=I Heart Vampires on Take180.com |accessdate=2010-03-03}}</ref>

===Music===
Bell was first professionally associated with music when he was in the 2001 movie ''Chasing Destiny''.{{Citation needed|date=November 2007}} In the film, he co-starred with ] lead singer ], who gave him his first guitar lessons. Bell performed on television for the first time in 2002 when he performed his first original song, "Lost A Lover", on ''The Amanda Show''. He also performed part of this song on an episode of "The Nightmare Room", and "So Little Time". Another one of his songs, "Found a Way", is featured as the theme song for ''Drake & Josh''. The song is included on '']'', along with two other compositions he wrote and performed, that were on his debut album, '']'', which was released independently on September 27, 2005.

In 2005, Bell performed with ] in a video for the ] song called "Bring 'Em Out," which was featured in the movie '']''. Bell and fellow band-mates Michael Corcoran (Backhouse Mike) and C.J. Abraham (The Super Chris), worked on music for ''Drake & Josh'', '']'', and '']''. In 2008, Bell signed with ]. He released his first single, "I Know", on October 17, 2006. The video for "I Know" was filmed in October 2006. Bell's second album, entitled '']'', was released on December 5, 2006, reaching Number 81 on Billboard's Top 200. <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.billboard.com/album/drake-bell/it-s-only-time/814602#/album/drake-bell/it-s-only-time/814602 |title=It's Only Time - Drake Bell |accessdate=2010-01-28 |date=2010-01-28 |format= |work= |publisher=Billboard}}</ref>Bell performed live on MTV's ] the day after it was released. In the summer of 2007, he went on a Nextfest tour in support of ''It's Only Time'', opening up alongside ] for ].

On October 16, 2007, the ] single edit version of his song "]", was released on ]. This was the second single for Bell's album '']''. He also wrote with band-mates Michael Corcoran (Backhouse Mike), and C.J. Abraham (The Super Chris), and sang the theme song for the show ''iCarly'', "Leave It All to Me," with ]. The music video for the song premiered on May 24, 2008. Bell has recorded a theme song featuring ] for his movie '']'' called "]". He performed some Christmas songs in the ''Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh'' movie.

Bell has described his music as being heavily influenced by ] and ], with the Beatles being his main influence.<ref name="mtv profile">, MTV.com, accessed on 2008-07-18</ref> He says that two of his other influences are ] and ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.myspace.com/drakebellonline |title=Drake Bell Official MySpace |accessdate=2009-01-31 |date=2009-01-31 |format= |work= |publisher=Drake Bell MySpace}}</ref>

A DVD entitled "Drake Bell In Concert" was released on December 16, 2008. The video was unable to crack the 2008 or 2009 Top 100.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.the-numbers.com/dvd/charts/annual/2008.php |title=The Numbers |accessdate=2010-01-27 |date=2010-01-27 |format= |work= |publisher=The Numbers}}</ref>. The DVD contains footage of him and his band live on stage while they toured in Mexico, in October 2008. It also features 2 new songs and 5 covers, all of which are exclusive to the DVD.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tommy2.net/content/index.php |title=Drake Bell In Concert DVD. |accessdate=2008-10-14 |date=2008-10|format= |work= |publisher=tommy2.net}}</ref>

====Third Album====
In late 2007, Bell was working on his third studio album, originally intended for a spring 2008 release.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/Drake%20Bell_%20A%20Rocker%20in%20the%20Ma/ |title=Drake Bell: The Gibson Interview |accessdate=2007-09-12 |date=2007-08-28 |format= |work= |publisher=Gibson Lifestyle}}</ref> This album will most likely not be produced by his current label ], as said by CJ Abraham in an interview.
A few new songs have been heard, and in interviews he has explained, "It's kind of a conceptual double album. The first record is kind of like Magical Mystery Tour in the air, like a 1960's Pan Am flight with all this cool orchestral music and if there is turbulence on the flight, there will be a cool rock and roll song or if there's a special thing we're going through then you'll hear like Mr. Kite type music. And the other side is all about the sea. It's a story, kind of like The Princess Bride where a guy leaves his girl in a town and goes off to sea and crashes on an island and all these legends come back about him becoming this great pirate and ruling the seas. She thinks 'oh, man. He left me!' and really he's just on this island trying to get back to her so it's this back and forth love story about love lost and all that. Hopefully we're gonna try and do a movie alongside it".

And in another interview it was described that he says he drew inspiration for an in-the-works conceptual double CD from the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" and "Magical Mystery Tour." He said, "There's a whole movie I'd like to shoot alongside it that we're writing right now," he says. "It's a 'Princess Bride'-'Romeo and Juliet'-type story with monsters and pirates with big beards. It's very Jellyfish and Jon Brion, Harry Nilsson's 'Popeye' soundtrack. That type of music with a Michel Gondry look to it."

"Sea Song", and another called "All Alone at the Disco" can be seen on his "]" DVD. In some other concerts he has played "Our Love" and "Yesterday's Fool", which can also be heard on a SayNow message.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}} He announced "Here am I" on another SayNow message.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}}{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}} He released a minute of a Spanglish edit of "All Alone at the Disco" and one minute thirty seconds of "Unbelievable" on his official ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.myspace.com/drakebellonline |title=Drake Bell Official MySpace |accessdate=2009-01-31 |date=2009-01-31 |format= |work= |publisher=Drake Bell MySpace}}</ref>
Another, "Modern Times", appeared in a commercial for Twalking and is available on his MySpace and Facebook.

==Filmography==
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! colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"|Film
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! Year
! Film
! Role
! Notes
|-
|]
|'']''
|Jesse Remo
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|-
|rowspan="2"|]
|'']''
|Young Rob Gordon
|
|-
|'']''
|Bobby Jr.
|
|-
|]
|'']''
|Dylan North
|
|-
|rowspan="4"|]
|'']''
|Rick Riker
|
|-
|'']''
|Kevin
|
|-
|'']''
|Butch Hare
|Voice role
|-
|'']''
|Harold Kelp
|Voice role<br>] release
|-
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"|Television
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
|]
|'']''
|Little Pete
|'''Episode:''' ]
|-
|]
|'']''
|Jordan
|'''Episode:''' The Ex Files
|-
|]
|'']''
|Scott
|'''Episode:''' Me and My Hormones
|-
|]
|'']''
|Brendan
|'''Episode:''' ]
|-
|]
|'']''
|Kenny
|'''Episode:''' ]
|-
|]-]
|'']''
|Drake
|
|-
|]
|'']''
|Alex Sanders
|'''Episode:''' Dear Diary, I'm Dead
|-
|]-]
|'']''
|Drake Parker
|Main Role
|-
|rowspan="2"|]
|'']''
|Drake Parker
|]
|-
|'']''
|Himself
|'''Episode:''' ]
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|]
|'']''
|Drake Parker
|]
|-
|]
|'']''
|Drake Parker
|]
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! colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"|Web Series
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! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
|2010
|'']''
|Ian
|'''Episode:''' I Love Luci<br>'''Episode:''' Four's A Crowd
|}

==Discography==
=== Studio albums ===
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Album details
! colspan="3"| Peak positions
|- style="font-size:smaller;"
! width="30"| ]
! width="30"| ]
! width="30"| ]
|-
| 2005
| align="left"| ''''']'''''
<small>
* First studio album
* Release date: September 27, 2005
* Label: Nine Yard Records</small>
| —
| —
| —
|-
| 2006
| align="left"| ''''']'''''
<small>
* Second studio album
* Release date: December 5, 2006
* Label: ]</small>
| 81
| 21
| 4
|-
|}

=== Singles ===
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Single
! colspan="2"| Peak positions
! rowspan="2"| Album
|- style="font-size:smaller;"
! width="35"| ]
! width="35"| ]
|-
| 2005
| align="left"| "I Found a Way"
| —
| —
| align="left"| ''Telegraph''
|-
| 2006
| align="left"| "I Know"
| —
| —
| align="left" rowspan="2"| ''It's Only Time''
|-
| align="left" rowspan="2"| 2007
| align="left"| "]"
| 103
| 67
|-
| align="left"| "]"<br><small>(] featuring Drake Bell)<small/>
| 100
| 83
| align="left"| '']''
|-
| 2008
| align="left"| "]"
| —
| —
| align="left"| ''Non-album single''
|-
| colspan="10" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart
|-
|}

== Awards ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Award
!Category
|-
|2006
|Blimp Award (])
|Favorite TV Actor (])
|-
|-
|rowspan="3"|2007
|Blimp Award (])
|Favorite TV Actor (])
|-
|Blimp Award (])
|Best Male Singer
|-
|Blimp Award (])
|Best TV Show (])
|-
|rowspan="3"|2008
|Blimp Award (])
|Favorite TV Actor (])
|-
|Blimp Award (KCA Brazil 2008)
|Favourite International Artist
|-
|Surfboard Award (])
|Choice Movie Breakout Actor (])
|-
||2009
|Blimp Award (])
|Fave International TV Star
|-
|}

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* {{imdb name|0068166}}

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Revision as of 20:49, 13 April 2010

Drake Bell is a rapper wanna be. He is married to a sewer rat named Backy. She has asdfajlskdfjalalidosis, a life-threatening disease for rats and ugly people. Drake Bell is also being tested. He wears ugly everything. He is unattractive. Drake is an octagonal prism. Drake enjoys being dorky, eating spinach, getting fat, and playing golf.