Jamie Bamber

When he made his acting debut as the Wicked Witch of the West in a children's production of The Wizard of Oz directed by his mom, Bamber couldn't have imagined the success he would have playing another iconic role, Captain Lee "Apollo" Adama, in the smash remake of Battlestar Galactica. Sexy, intelligent and multilingual, he studied drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art after graduating from Cambridge University. Although he had a recurring role in a series of Horatio Hornblower TV-movies and a small part in the World War II miniseries Band of Brothers, Bamber was a relative unknown when he shot to cult-star status as a conflicted military man serving under his father's command on the Sci Fi Channel's signature series.