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Jamie Metcalfe Campbell Bower (born 22 November 1988) is an English actor, model and singer. He made his feature film debut in 2007 with a supporting role in Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, before going on to feature in The Twilight Saga (2009–2012) and as the young Gellert Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018). Bower was part of the main cast of the fantasy series Camelot (2011, Starz) and Will (2017, TNT), both of which only ran for a single season each. From 2015 to 2020, he served as the frontman of London-based band Counterfeit. In 2020, he began releasing music as a solo artist. In 2022, Bower joined the cast of the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things, where he plays Henry Creel/Vecna in the fourth and fifth seasons, a role for which he has garnered wide critical acclaim. On 19 December 2025, he reprised the role onstage in his Broadway debut, a surprise appearance in the final scene of Stranger Things: The First Shadow. Bower will reportedly appear in the third season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, as well as a starring role in the Screen Gems horror The Haunting in Wicker Park. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jamie Campbell Bower, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The story begins with our protagonist waking up inside a nautiloid, a dimension-crossing illithid flying ship. They are implanted with an illithid tadpole, parasites that enthral and transform people into creatures known as mind flayers; however, before the transformation is complete, the ship comes under attack from githyanki warriors and their red dragons. The protagonist is freed during the fighting and steers the damaged ship back to Faerûn, where it crashes. As the protagonist searches for a way to remove their parasite, they encounter other survivors of the wreck, all likewise implanted with tadpoles: the githyanki fighter Lae'zel, the Sharran cleric Shadowheart, the high elf vampire Astarion, the human wizard Gale, the human warlock Wyll, and the tiefling barbarian Karlach. Meanwhile a deadly cult which follows a mysterious entity called the Absoulte has started to gain traction and spread across Faerûn, and coincidentally seems to be the source of the recent rise in tadpole infections.
