Jamie Bamber
Jamie Bamber
Jamie St John Bamber Griffithis an English actor, known for his roles as Lee Adama in Battlestar Galactica and Detective Sergeant Matt Devlin in the ITV series Law & Order: UK. He also had a supporting role in the Hornblower series and was a regular on the British series Ultimate Force and Peak Practice. In 2013, Bamber starred in the TNT medical drama Monday Mornings, and in 2014, in the Sky1 drama The Smoke...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth3 April 1973
choices wonder projects
When you start a new project, you wonder whether its the right choice.
home thinking london
I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.
country watches rugby
I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.
believe practice natural-talent
The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.
morning jobs lucky
I've honestly been so lucky. I've never had a job where I didn't look forward to being on set in the morning.
order law dry
My only hesitation after 'Law & Order' was that I didn't want to be in a super dry procedural like that. I found that satisfying, but very tough because every episode was kind of the same. It just is with that show.
baseball biggest boy buy cap front hanging jacket kids looked reject smallest wear
Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.
alone sports team work
I was a team sports guy, but I don't do that anymore. When I work out, it's alone.
L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.
changed created days encouraged family involved ourselves
For those of us that were involved from the first days of 'Battlestar,' we were encouraged to give of ourselves and to feel that we had a voice, not just as the character but as part of the family that created the show. It changed me, certainly.
dry episode found hesitation super tough
My only hesitation after 'Law & Order' was that I didn't want to be in a super dry procedural like that. I found that satisfying, but very tough because every episode was kind of the same. It just is with that show.
certain fitness weight
I'm freakishly competitive, so I set a date to achieve a certain weight or fitness.
kid
I never had to try as a kid to stay in shape. In a way, there was no willpower involved.
basically carry cold episode means transport whatever
I'm not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.