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My Take
Jamie Bamber will always be Lee "Apollo" Adama to me, and that's high praise given how stacked Battlestar Galactica's cast was. What I find interesting is the contrast between the man and the role: a Cambridge-educated Brit playing an American military pilot so convincingly that plenty of viewers never clocked the accent work. He later anchored Law & Order: UK as Matt Devlin, showing real range across the Atlantic. I tend to value actors who disappear into nationality and rank without fuss, and Bamber does exactly that. He's a dependable lead who rarely gets the headline credit he's earned.
Overview
Jamie St John Bamber Griffith (born April 3 1973), known professionally as Jamie Bamber, is a British 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 as 2nd Lt.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Jamie Bamber
- Name (Japanese)
- ジェイミー・バンバー
- Reading
- じぇいみー・ばんばー
- Born
- April 3, 1973 (age 53)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Ox
- Origin
- Hammersmith, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film actor / television actor / stage actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- St John's College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.