Jamie Bower delights as a vampire in 'New Moon' and as 11-12 in TV's 'The Prisoner'

November 19, 8:03 PMBritish Pop Culture ExaminerDonna Peerce

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Jamie Campbell Bower, center, as Caius in "New Moon"

Jamie Campbell Bower, who stars as the beautiful vampire, Caius, a member of the Volturi coven in Italy, in The Twilight Saga: New Moon alongside actors such as fellow Brit Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, is also lighting up the little screen in The Prisoner on AMC television in America this month.  Born on November 22, 1988, Bower has a love for performing and for being in the spotlight and is an ex-member of the National Youth Music Theatre. Jamie is a good singer and used to be the lead singer in a band called 'The Darling Buds.' He is also a model for Select Model Management. He is from London and went to school privately at Bedales School in Hampshire. Whilst still at school there he was told that he had got the part of Anthony in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street. Bower later went on to star in RocknRolla as Rocker, directed by Guy Richie.

Bower stars as Number 11-12 in the remake of this wonderful re-imagined show about a Big Brother society, which initially debuted in the U.K. in 1967, starring Patrick McGoohan as a British spy who, after quitting his post, is whisked away to a mysterious seaside village and assigned the Number Six as his only means of identification. Despite the fact that few people in America have seen the original show – and even fewer have fully understood it – the show’s impact on pop culture has been significant with references on The Office, The Simpsons and Watchmen.

The current AMC-TV version of The Prisoner, which premiered November 15-17, but will be replaying all throughout November, is bigger, more breathtaking, faster and better. It is “on-the-edge-of-your-seat” exciting with mystery after mystery being introduced and unfolded one-by-one.

Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ) is perfect in the role of Number Six and Ian McKellen, the two-time Oscar nominee known to millions of moviegoers from The Lord of the Rings and X-Men Trilogies is superb in the role of Number Two. Bower stars as Number Two’s son, Number 11-12. Blonde with blue eyes, ivory skin, he is beautiful, sensitive and powerful in this role as a young teenager who begins to question his way of life in “The Village,” the place where Number Six wakes up and finds himself after he resigns from his job at a huge Big Brother type of corporate. “The Village,” a mysterious desert outpost, is ruled by Number Two, and is inhabited with robot-like people who do not know how they got there, or why they’re there. They don’t know that there is a world outside “The Village.”