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
britain civilized frustrates leaves puts tv viewers
It frustrates me that Britain can't make something like 'CSI' or 'The Sopranos'. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding.
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.
L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.
alone sports team work
I was a team sports guy, but I don't do that anymore. When I work out, it's alone.
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.
family love
I would love to do more family comedy.
few town trying
When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.
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.
along involved reluctant science seems shame sort unless
I'm reluctant to get involved in science fiction, because I feel like I've done it and done it well, so unless something comes along that I feel has the potential to do something even more interesting, it seems a shame to sort of re-live something in half-measures.
certain fitness weight
I'm freakishly competitive, so I set a date to achieve a certain weight or fitness.
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.
hard
It's hard to measure up to 'Battlestar' - it's hard not to measure things against it.
appetite characters complex extremely following longer rewarding viewing
There's something extremely rewarding about following characters that you like and knowing that there's as many hours of viewing as you have the appetite for. You can tell more complex stories; you can create more complex characters in the longer form.