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Meet Jamie Campbell Bower, the British actor who plays Vecna in Netflix’s Stranger Things
STORYSumnima Kandangwa
He made his acting debut in Sweeney Todd with Johnny Depp, and starred in franchises like Twilight and Harry Potter before the Netflix hit
Netflix’s hit mystery series, Stranger Things, has finally returned for its much-anticipated fifth and final season. The show features Millie Bobby Brown, Sadie Sink, David Harbour, Joe Keery and more.
The show’s farewell season has been three years in the making after season four’s finale in 2022 saw Sink’s character Max in a coma and the series antagonist Vecna defeated (for now).
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Jamie Campbell Bower reprises his role as Vecna. Only time will tell whether his character will succeed in merging the Upside Down with the real world and wiping out humanity.
Here’s everything you need to know about the 37-year-old.
Jamie Campbell Bower landed his first role in a film with Johnny Depp
Jamie Campbell Bower was born in November 1988 and raised in Petersfield, Hampshire in the UK. He attended Bedales, a private boarding school in Hampshire that counts other celebrities such as Lily Allen and Daniel Day-Lewis among its alumni.
In an interview with the London Evening Standard, Bower revealed that he always had a love of performing and had participated in every production of a local youth theatre until he was 16. His parents further nurtured his talent and when he was 17 years old, his mother introduced him to an agent who would land him his film debut in Tim Burton’s 2007 film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, the late Alan Rickman and more.
Since then, Bower has gone on to star in several blockbuster franchises, including Twilight, Harry Potter and The Mortal Instruments, before landing his role as Vecna in Stranger Things.
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