Jamie Campbell Bower

James Metcalfe Campbell Bower (born 22 November 1988) is an English actor, singer and model.

He made his feature film debut in 2007 with a supporting role in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

He went on to feature in The Twilight Saga, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, and as the young Gellert Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

In 2022, Bower featured as Henry Creel / Vecna in the fourth season of the Netflix series Stranger Things, for which he received critical acclaim.

In 2007, he co-starred as Anthony Hope in Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

In 2008, he played Rocker in the film RocknRolla and Jack in Winter in Wartime.

In 2009, he starred in the 2009 remake of the series The Prisoner as Number 11–12.

Also in 2009, he played the vampire Caius Volturi in the film The Twilight Saga: New Moon and both Twilight: Breaking Dawn films.

In the 2010s, Bower was part of the main casts of the fantasy series Camelot on Starz and Will on TNT.

He appeared as a young Gellert Grindelwald (the dark wizard defeated by Albus Dumbledore) in the 2010 film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1; he reprised this role in the 2018 film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

As such, he is one of only two actors to appear in both the Harry Potter and Twilight franchises.

In 2010, he starred in the music video for Young (Belane) by The Xcerts.

(The other was Robert Pattinson, who appears as Cedric Diggory in the fourth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and as Edward Cullen in the Twilight films.) He played King Arthur in the 2011 television series Camelot.

In 2012, Bower appeared in the music video for Never Let Me Go by Florence + The Machine.

He played Jace Wayland in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, the 2013 film adaptation of The Mortal Instruments series, by Cassandra Clare.

From 2015 to 2020, he was the frontman of the London-based band Counterfeit.

In June 2015, Bower began playing the role of Joe in the West End musical Bend It Like Beckham.

Since 2015, Bower has voiced Skiff in the Thomas & Friends franchise, having contributed to the television show, two home videos, and the feature film Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure.

In 2022, Bower starred as Henry Creel / One / Vecna in season four of the Netflix series Stranger Things.

Makeup for the role took up to eight hours a day to apply.

His performance in the series garnered critical acclaim.

During the makeup process, Bower was also coated with lubricant to make him look glossy.

Originally, Bower was the lead singer of the band The Darling Buds, which never released an album and that dissolved in June 2015.

In July 2017, he was on the TNT original series Will.

He played the role of the poet, gay atheist and spy Christopher Marlowe who was jealous of Shakespeare.

Christopher Marlowe is preoccupied with death, the supernatural and the occult.

Bower explained that the series delves into Marlowe's life and refers him as a Naughty Boy.

Then, Bower became the frontman and singer for the band Counterfeit, which released its first album in March 2017, and had a US tour in the same year.

In January 2019, Bower was announced as a star in the prelude series to Game of Thrones, titled Bloodmoon (also known as The Long Night), but HBO announced it had decided not to make the series in October 2019.

He starred in the 2019 film Six Days of Sistine, distributed by Mbur Indie Film Distributor and co-starring Elarica Johnson.

In 2020 he started releasing music as a solo artist.

Bower was born in London.

His mother is a music manager and his father works for the Gibson Guitar Corporation.

His maternal great-great-great-great-grandfather was Sir John Campbell, of Airds, Lieutenant Governor of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Bower has had an interest in music and performance from a young age.

He started playing the violin as a child, and was taught using the Suzuki method.

He attended Bedales School, a co-educational independent school in Hampshire, and is a former member of the National Youth Music Theatre and the National Youth Theatre.

Bower began his professional career when his friend Laura Michelle Kelly recommended him to her agent.

In November 2020, Bower announced the band's split through their Instagram page.

He released music as a solo artist shortly after.