Birth Name: Jamie St John Bamber Griffith
Birth Place: Hammersmith, London, England
Date of Birth: 04/03/1973
Profession: Actor
Nickname: Bambini
Eye color: blue
Hair color: blond
Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m)
Notable features:
# He speaks French and Italian fluently and knows a little Spanish.
Education:
# He spent his early school years in Paris and moved back to the UK at age 7.
# During his first degree studies of French and Italian literature he spent a year
studying in Italy. After graduating he decided to go into acting professionally
and studied at LAMDA.
# At Cambridge University, England, he achieved a 1st Class MA Honours in
Modern Languages. The highest you can achieve.
Family:
# He met his wife, Kerry Norton, when they were working on the 2000 thriller
"The Devil's Tattoo" aka "Ghost Rig".
# He married actress Kerry Norton in 2003. They have three children.
# Daughter Isla Elizabeth Angela Griffith born on June 10, 2003.
# Twin daughters, Ava and Darcy, born August 27, 2004.
# His father, Ralph, is an American lawyer; mother, Elizabeth (Liz), is
Northern Irish.
# Bamber is his mother's maiden name.
# He is from a family of 7 siblings: 5 brothers (one younger and 4 older
half-brothers from his father's first marriage), 1 sister.
# His sister is actress Anastasia Griffith.
Jamie & Kerry Anastasia & Jamie
Resides in:
# London/Richmond (UK) and Los Angeles/Studio City (USA)
Personal interests/hobbies:
# He likes horseback riding, rugby, golf, scuba diving, tennis, skiing dancing and
Rap-Music but running is his main sport, and in April 2002 he finished the
London Marathon in just under three hours.
# His favourite books include 'Dante's Divine Comedy'.
# He's a fan of Tottenham Hotspur FC.
Awards:
# 2006 nominated for the 'Saturn Award' - Best Supporting Actor on Television
for "Battlestar Galactica" (2004)
Other:
# While doing Hornblower he referred to his pony tail as a "dead fish" hanging
down his neck.
# Best friends with Ioan Gruffudd of "Hornblower", "King Arthur" and "Fantastic
Four" fame.
# For all the theatre work he's done, he would love to do Hamlet.
# Jamie was chosen as one of People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive for 2006.
# Someone once asked him about who would like to meet, he answered:
Shakespeare, Garibaldi, Jesus Christ, and King Henry the fifth.
# He said in DailyMail "I'm 5ft 9in with a 40in chest and a 31in waist, so I'm
rather too big for that very tailored British look".
# In 2009, appeared shirtless (and with chest hair) in print advertisements for
PETA, encouraging "bare skin, not bearskin," meant to help draw attention
to the fact that the fur of Canadian black bears is used to make the fur caps
for the Queen's Guard. The wonderful photos for the campaign was taken by
Karl Grant.
For more information about the PETA Campaign and video link please go to
http://blog.peta.org.uk/2009/its-bare-skin-not-bearskin-for-jamie-bamber
TBC
