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Jamie Bamber : biography

03 April 1973 –

Jamie St. John Bamber Griffith (born 3 April 1973), known professionally as Jamie Bamber, is an English actor known most widely for his roles as Lee Adama on Battlestar Galactica and Detective Sergeant Matt Devlin on the ITV series Law & Order: UK. He also had a supporting role in the Hornblower series and was a regular on the UK series Ultimate Force and Peak Practice. He most recently starred in the TNT medical drama Monday Mornings.

Early life

Bamber was born in Hammersmith, London, to Elizabeth Bamber, a native of Northern Ireland and Ralph Griffith, an American. He holds British, Irish and American citizenship. Bamber has five brothers and one sister, actress Anastasia Griffith.

Bamber was educated at St Paul’s School in London, and graduated with a first in Modern Languages (Italian and French) from St John’s College, Cambridge, before attending and graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He is fluent in both languages, having spent part of his childhood in Paris. Bamber appeared in the 1994 student film Shifting Sands., with video clips of Bamber

Filmography

Starring roles

Year Title Role Other notes
1998 Hornblower: The Even Chance Archie Kennedy TV
1999 Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil Archie Kennedy TV
1999 Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters Archie Kennedy TV
1999 The Scarlet Pimpernel Lord Tony Dewhurst Miniseries
2000 Lady Audley’s Secret George Talboys TV
2001–2002 Peak Practice Dr. Matt Kendal TV series
2001 Band of Brothers 2nd Lt Jack Foley Miniseries
2001 Hornblower: Mutiny Archie Kennedy TV
2001 Hornblower: Retribution Archie Kennedy TV
2001 The Devil’s Tattoo (UK) Ghost Rig (US) Tom Film
2002–2003 Ultimate Force Lt. Dennis "Dotsy" Doheny TV series
2002 Daniel Deronda Hans Meyrick TV
2003 Battlestar Galactica Lee ‘Apollo’ Adama Miniseries
2004–2009 Battlestar Galactica Lee ‘Apollo’ Adama TV series
2008 Pulse 2: Afterlife Stephen Film
2009—2011 Law & Order: UK DS Matt Devlin TV series
2010 Outcasts Mitchell Hoban TV series
2012 Un jour mon père viendra Stephen Astarti Film
2013 John Doe John Doe Film
2013 Monday Mornings Dr. Tyler Wilson TV series
2013— The Smoke Kev TV series

Guest appearances

Year Title Role Episode
2000 Poirot Ralph Paton 8.1 "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"
2001 Bob Martin James 2.2 "Big Break"
2006 The Last Detective Luke Clayhill 4.2 "Dangerous Liaisons"
2007 Ghost Whisperer Bryan Curtis 2.17 "The Walk In"
2007 Cold Case Jack Kimball 4.15 "Blood on the Tracks"
2009 Dollhouse Martin Klar 2.1 "Vows"
2011 CSI: Miami
Ronnie Hale 10.3 "Blown Away"
2011 House Bob Harris 8.5 "The Confession"