Cameron Bright- Biography

Also Credited As:

Cameron Crigger, Cameron Crigger, Cameron Douglas Crigger

About Cameron Bright

A versatile child actor who quickly amassed a substantial resume that performers three times his age, Cameron Bright emerged as a young star to watch.

Bright (who was initially credited as Cameron Crigger) started his acting career appearing in several major commercials in both Canada and the United States. He quickly moved to a number of TV series, including Fox's "Dark Angel," Warner Brothers' "Night Visions," and Fox Family Channel's "Higher Ground," in which he played a young Joe Lando.

Bright's other television credits include CBS's "The Christmas Secret" (2000) with Richard Thomas and Beau Bridges; HBO's "Lone Hero" (2002) with Lou Diamond Phillips and Sean Patrick Flannery; and USA Network's "My Brother's Keeper" (2002), directed by John Badham, with Jeanne Tripplehorn.

In 2004 Bright made a major breakthrough into feature films, beginning with a supporting role "The Butterfly Effect" starring Ashton Kutcher and Eric Stoltz, then appearing as Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and Greg Kinnear's cloned son in "Godsend" (2004), and next in "Birth" (2004) starring opposite Nicole Kidman as a ten-year-old claiming to be the reincarnation of Kidman's decade-dead husband who implores her not to marry her fiance. Bright garnered rave reviews for his performance, both appropriately childlike and eerily mature, as well as some controversy due to a scene in which he shares a bathtub with Kidman.

Career Milestones

First acting job was in a commercial for Telus
Will reprise role of Alec in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (filmed in 2009)

2000

Cast as a Young Peter Scarbrow in the series, Higher Ground

2000

Starred as a young Jerry in The Christmas Secret, with Beau Bridges

2002

Had a recurring role as Johnny on the FOX series, Dark Angel

2004

First major film role, Godsend, a horror film co-starring Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn

2004

Had a supporting role in The Butterfly Effect as a young Tommy

2004

Played a ten-year-old boy who claims to be the reincarnation of a woman s (Nicole Kidman) deceased husband in Birth

2006

Appeared in X-Men: The Last Stand, as the mutant Leech

2006

Cast in Wayne Kramer s mob drama Running Scared, opposite Paul Walker

2006

Cast opposite Milla Jovovich in the sci-fi thriller, Ultraviolet

2006

Played the son of a tobacco lobbyist (played by Aaron Eckhart) in Jason Reitman s satirical comedy, Thank You for Smoking

2009

Cast as the Volturi vampire Alec, twin brother to Dakota Fanning s character, in The Twilight Saga: New Moon