Cameron Douglas Crigger Bright (born January 26, 1993) is a Canadian actor. He has appeared in the films Godsend, Birth, Running Scared, Ultraviolet, X-Men: The Last Stand, Thank You for Smoking and three installments of The Twilight Saga.
Life and career
Bright was born in Victoria, British Columbia; he was given his middle name, "Douglas", after his maternal grandfather. His first acting job was in a commercial for Telus, which was soon followed by a guest appearance on the television series, Higher Ground. He subsequently appeared in several minor roles in made-for-television films, and was credited as "Cameron Crigger" for his roles (from the 2000 television movie, The Christmas Secret, to an episode of Night Visions).After a supporting part in The Butterfly Effect, Bright's first major role was in Godsend, a horror film co-starring Robert De Niro; the film was released in April 2004 to mixed reviews. In his next film, Birth, he played a ten-year-old boy who claims to be the reincarnation of a woman's (Nicole Kidman) deceased husband. Two scenes within the movie sparked controversy and drew media attention to Bright. In one scene, Bright and Kidman's characters kiss; in the other, the two share a bathtub. The actors wore flesh-colored swimsuits in the bath scenes and were never naked or filmed together in the same room at the same time of the bathtub scene, although this was not public knowledge at first.
Bright was cast in several Hollywood films, all of which were released in 2006, including Thank You for Smoking, Ultraviolet, and the action-thriller named Running Scared.
He starred in X-Men: The Last Stand, where he played the mutant Leech, who has the mutant antibody.He also appeared on an episode of The 4400 (episode: "The Wrath Of Graham") as a high school student named Graham Holt who develops an ability after injecting himself with Promicin. He has also played a host carrier for a cure for humanity in more than one movie.
Bright plays the Volturi vampire Alec, twin brother to Jane who is played by Dakota Fanning, in the Twilight films New Moon (2009), Eclipse (2010), Breaking Dawn part 1 (2011), and Breaking Dawn, Part II.
2013 he will appearance along Richard Jenkins in One Square Mile which will be the first English-language movie from French Canadian director Charles-Olivier Michaud .
Fun Facts
He has an older brother named Bryce Nelson.
He has 2 dogs and a cat.
Cameron has no favorite bands but many favorite songs ranging from Classical, Jazz, Oldies and Rock
His favorite film is Saving Private Ryan (1998).
He plays two roles of a young boy who can "cure" a new race of human in three months: the role of Six in Ultraviolet (2006) and Leech in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006).
Has already worked twice with Rebecca Romijn: for the first time in Godsend (2004), then in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), although in the latter they have no common scene.
Jason Reitman, who directed him in Thank You For Smoking, gave Cameron a cameo role in his new movie "Juno" starring Ellen Page (Xmen 3, also starring Cameron) and Jennifer Garner (Alias).
Friend of actress Jodelle Ferland.
Has played a young boy who falls in love with an older woman three times: Birth (2004) Stargate SG1 (TV)(2005) ans An American Affair (2009).
He has 2 dogs and a cat.
Cameron has no favorite bands but many favorite songs ranging from Classical, Jazz, Oldies and Rock
His favorite film is Saving Private Ryan (1998).
He plays two roles of a young boy who can "cure" a new race of human in three months: the role of Six in Ultraviolet (2006) and Leech in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006).
Has already worked twice with Rebecca Romijn: for the first time in Godsend (2004), then in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), although in the latter they have no common scene.
Jason Reitman, who directed him in Thank You For Smoking, gave Cameron a cameo role in his new movie "Juno" starring Ellen Page (Xmen 3, also starring Cameron) and Jennifer Garner (Alias).
Friend of actress Jodelle Ferland.
Has played a young boy who falls in love with an older woman three times: Birth (2004) Stargate SG1 (TV)(2005) ans An American Affair (2009).
[about
acting] "I will do this for as long as I can. The only con to acting
and being this young is the school thing. You need to have 3 hours per
day of school as well as all the work hours too. It gets very tiring
when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never
get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult
you get to take a nap in between shots."
(about the controversy with the tub scene in Birth) "If you knew how they film movies and how ACTRA and SAG protect children actors, then you would not be asking me this question. The only people stirring up the bath water in that scene was the media."
When asked what it was like to watch his movies... "As most actors/actresses I don't like to watch my own movies either and I never look at the daily's while filming. My favorite movies with me in them are Running Scared and Thank You for Smoking. I love those two and totally got into watching those movies that I forgot I was in them."
(about the controversy with the tub scene in Birth) "If you knew how they film movies and how ACTRA and SAG protect children actors, then you would not be asking me this question. The only people stirring up the bath water in that scene was the media."
When asked what it was like to watch his movies... "As most actors/actresses I don't like to watch my own movies either and I never look at the daily's while filming. My favorite movies with me in them are Running Scared and Thank You for Smoking. I love those two and totally got into watching those movies that I forgot I was in them."
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | The Butterfly Effect | Tommy Miller at age 7 | |
| Birth | Young Sean | ||
| Godsend | Adam Duncan | ||
| 2005 | Stargate SG-1 | Orlin | TV series |
| 2006 | X-Men: The Last Stand | Jimmy the Leech | |
| Thank You for Smoking | Joey Naylor | ||
| Ultraviolet | Six | ||
| Running Scared | Oleg | ||
| 2007 | The 4400 | Graham Holt | TV series |
| Christmas in Wonderland | Danny Saunders | ||
| Normal | Brady | ||
| Juno | RPG Nerd | ||
| 2009 | An American Affair | Adam Stafford | |
| Walled In | Jimmy | ||
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon | Alec | ||
| 2010 | The Twilight Saga: Eclipse | Alec | |
| 2011 | Earth's Final Hours | Andy Streich | |
| Little Glory | Shawn | ||
| The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 | Alec | ||
| 2012 | Goodnight For Justice - The Measure Of A Man | Will | TV series |
| 2012 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 | Alec |
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