Jamie Bamber

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.

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

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor / stage actor

University

St John's College

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.