Jamie Campbell Bower
Biography
Jamie Campbell Bower is an English actor, singer, and musician who began professional acting after a friend recommended him to an agent. Born in London in 1988, he performed with the National Youth Music Theatre and the National Youth Theatre before taking the part of Anthony Hope in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and Jack in Winter in Wartime (2008). He next played the vampire Caius Volturi in The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) and the Twilight: Breaking Dawn films, and a young Gellert Grindelwald in a Harry Potter film and later in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018). Other credits include Jace Wayland in the 2013 film adaptation The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, King Arthur in Camelot, and Christopher Marlowe in Will. As Henry Creel, or Vecna, in Stranger Things he earned critical acclaim and his widest recognition. He led the punk band Counterfeit from 2015 to 2020 and formed BloodMagic in 2024.
37years old
Turns 38 on November 22in 11 days
- Born Hammersmith
- Star sign: SagittariusFirst day of the sign, on the Scorpio cusp
- James Metcalfe Campbell Bower (birth name)Also credited as Jamie and James Campbell M Bower
Movie Career
- Films
- 11
- Career span
- 19 years2007 to 2026
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First role
Bower got his start in acting when his friend Laura Michelle Kelly passed his name to her agent, which led to his first professional work.
Early training
Bower went to Bedales School, an independent co-educational school in Steep, Hampshire. He also used to belong to London's National Youth Music Theatre and National Youth Theatre.
A change of course
Bower was the drummer for a band named William K. After that he became lead singer of The Darling Buds, a group that dissolved in June 2015 and never put out an album.
A role that slipped away
Bower was cast in a Game of Thrones prequel called Bloodmoon, but HBO chose not to pick up the series.
Getting ready for a role
In Stranger Things, the Netflix science fiction horror series, Bower starred as Henry Creel and Vecna during the fourth and fifth seasons. Make-up application for the part could take as long as eight hours daily.
A first
In December 2025, Bower returned to his role for one surprise appearance, showing up in the last scene of the play Stranger Things: The First Shadow. It was his Broadway debut.
Jamie Campbell Bower movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Eight actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Also two films together2 more actors
- Jackson RathboneThe Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012) and The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
- Taylor LautnerThe Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012) and The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Jamie Campbell Bower's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$1.9 billion
10 of the 11 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 11 films: 10 worldwide figure; 1 never in cinemas.
- 10Worldwide figure
- 1Never in cinemas
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$830M44.7% of the total
- 2$710M38.3% of the total
- 3$153M8.3% of the total
- 4$95M5.1% of the total
- 5$39M2.1% of the total
- 6$15M0.8% of the total
- 7$8.3M0.4% of the total
- 8$3.4M0.2% of the total
$1.0 millionfrom the other 2 films with a worldwide figure, 0% of the total