- Scottish actor Cameron Jack was born and bred into a working class shipbuilding family in Partick, Glasgow in 1972. In 1992 he received the Margaret Rutherford scholarship to study acting at Mountview theatre school in North London.
Graduating in 1995, he set out on an eclectic career, appearing in everything from multiple West End musicals, low budget British film and Hollywood blockbusters. He first came to prominence on screen with television appearances in the mid to late 1990's, appearing in mainstream TV fare like 'Taggart', 'The Bill', 'The Vanishing Man' and 'Lucy Sullivan is getting married'.
In 2011, he was cast in his first feature film role in the final part of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, 'The Dark Knight Rises', playing one of Bane's henchmen 'Sewer Thug 1'. In 2013 he worked on BBC drama 'Waterloo Road' and three brand new TV Sitcoms including 'Man Down'.
2014 saw him appear as Lewis Milton in 'Silent Witness' for the BBC.
In 2015 he shot the The UK thriller 'Level Up' and the acclaimed Sci FI thriller 'What Happened To Monday' with Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close and Willem Dafoe. In 2016 he appeared in the feature films 'iBoy', 'Death Race: Beyond Anarchy', 'Perfect Skin' and 'Calibre' in which he appeared as Frank McClay. The film was a huge international hit and won the prestigious Michael Powell Award for Best British Film in 2018 at The Edinburgh International Film Festival.
2017 saw him take roles in brand new BBC drama 'Trust Me', International hit 'Outlander' , and two BAFTA award winning dramas, 'Call The Midwife and 'Patrick Melrose'.
He joined the cast of long running ITV drama 'Emmerdale' in March 2018 playing Connor in 10 episodes before filming on period drama 'Victoria', also for ITV. He appeared as Davy in the award winning Glasgow set short film 'Boys night'. The film was nominated for best short film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2019 and won best screenplay at the Elba Film Festival in Italy.
In 2018 he worked on 'Dragonheart: Vengeance' which was shot in Bucharest, Romania and in 2019 appeared in 'The Last Vermeer' which was shot in the UK and Holland and is due for release in 2021.
2020 saw him appear as Brendan in 'Wrath Of Man' directed by Guy Ritchie and the popular ITV police drama 'Unforgotten'.
2021 and 2022 proved busy too with appearances in 'Casualty', 'Grantchester', 'Shetland' and the movie 'Never Back Down:Revolt'.
In 2023 he'll be appearing in the much anticipated 'Masters Of The Air', the sitcom 'Gaynor and Ray', brand new TV shows 'The Chemistry Of Death' and 'Rain Dogs' and the feature film 'Little Bone Lodge'.
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- Often cast as a villain.
- Strong rock tenor voice.
- Twelve tattoos, mainly with Scottish themes.
- Prolific theatre director who has directed many theatre productions in London including A Clockwork Orange, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Trainspotting.
- Got his break appearing onstage in Richard III in London. His director was Brian Cox.
- Has The Gaelic words 'Alba Gu Brath' (Scotland Forever) tattooed on his right arm.
- Won A Scholarship To train At Mountview Theatre School In London.
- Played Begbie opposite Gerard Butler's Renton in the stage adaptation of Trainspotting in the mid 90's.
- I was only on set for a week, but I learnt so much. What I noticed about The Dark Knight Rises was how high the stakes are - how important it is that you get it right. There's not a lot of mucking around or laughing and joking as there are on some other types of job, it's a very high stakes set and that's exactly how it should be, because there's a lot riding on it.
- If I had to pick one single thing, it would be acting for camera. That's what I've always absolutely loved. When I did my first telly role in 1995, I kind of realised that was where my heart lay. But as an actor, unless you're very lucky or you evolve in a certain way, you have to move around to keep working. I've had a lovely and varied stage career, but perhaps now at 40 it doesn't fill me with as much excitement as my other ventures.
- I've got nine tattoos, I'm 5'6", I'm Glaswegian and I'm stocky. In film you tend to work in the area you look like, and since I left Mountview (Theatre School) at 24, every so often I've played these darker roles. Thugs, drug dealers, wife beaters, junkies, whatever, so it's not an area I'm unfamiliar with!
- Even though I was doing all the singing and dancing, at the back of my mind I wanted to do straight acting.
- "I got on like a house fire with Noomi Rapace, which is funny when you consider most of my scenes involved rolling around the floor or throwing her over a table or her battering me with an iron.
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