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Jamie St John Bamber Griffith (born 3 April 1973 in London, England) is a British actor best known to Americans as Lee Adama on the 2000's version of Battlestar Galactica. He is well known in his home nation of the UK; and he had a starring role as DS Matt Devlin on Law & Order: UK. Speaks fluent French and Italian (he studied them for his Modern Language degree and received 1st Class MA Honors, the highest level possible), can pull off an American accent so convincingly that many people are genuinely shocked to learn that he's Britishnote , (to the point where some have thought that his British accent is the fake one) and he can even give his British accent an Irish tinge (as he did on Law and Order UK), or a working-class one (as he did on The Smoke).

The list of works Mr. Bamber has had either a starring or guest role in:

Film

  • Shifting Sands: 'Bean' (as Jamie Griffith)
  • Lady Audley's Secret: George Talboys
  • The Devil's Tattoo (aka Ghost Rig): Tom
  • Pulse 2: Afterlife: Stephen
  • Un jour mon père viendra: Stephen Astarti
  • Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse: Voice of Robin Hood
  • Filly Brown: Sam
  • Before I Sleep: Paul
  • John Doe: Vigilante: John Doe
  • The Better Half: Jeff Ryan
  • Numb: Will
  • Modern Love
  • Break: Vince Macey
  • Money: John
  • A New York Christmas: Sam Martin
  • Crystal Inferno: Tom Bronson
  • L'embarass du choix: Paul
  • The Car: Road to Revenge: James S. Craddock

Radio

Television

Theater

Video Games:

Web:

Tropes associated with Mr. Bamber:

  • Chronically Killed Actor: He's had so many of his characters killed off—eleven, at last count—that in two instances (on Cold Case and Ghost Whisperer), said character was ALREADY dead when the show started and another (on Star Trek Continues), seemed to be lampshading this trend by outright making him a Red Shirt.
  • Mr. Fanservice: He's been portrayed as a Lust Object in most works he's starred in.
  • Shirtless Scene: A good chunk of things he's starred in have him shirtless at some point. He also posed naked in an ad campaign for PETA to protest the bearskin caps used by the Queen's Guard. (Bearskin, bare skin, get it?) One especially titillating snapshot (which is actually the least revealing of the series of pictures it was chosen from) adorns the Shirtless Scene/Live-Action TV page
  • What Beautiful Eyes!: He has gorgeous blue eyes that have become a major trait of nearly every character he's played.
  • What the Hell Is That Accent?: His American accent is flawless. . .as long as you don't try to determine just which part of the US his character is from. The most glaring example might be his complete lack of a Boston accent during his guest stint on Rizzoli & Isles. And his accent in the unaired 17th Precinct pilot is a bizarre hybrid of American, British (having just spent 3 years using his normal accent on Law & Order: UK, he was presumably out of practice), and Canadian (the episode was filmed in Vancouver).

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