Early career and Kernow King His Kernow King character features a strong Cornish identity and speaks in a strong
Cornish accent. In mid 2010 he produced a series of short comedy videos on Cornish themes, often in the
spoof documentary format. Examples include the Camborne Maid's song remake of musician
Billy Joel's "
Uptown Girl". This led to a 2014 standup tour,
Splann!. Rowe wrote an opinion piece for
The Guardian in 2012 criticising the proposed
pasty tax. In 2015, he starred in ''Kernow King's sex tape'', an educational film produced by
Cornwall Council's Health Promotion Service. This was nominated for the UK Sexual Health Awards. Rowe was made a bard of
Gorsedh Kernow in 2015 "for his work as an ambassador for the Cornish identity". In 2017, he starred in the
Hall for Cornwall's Christmas show,
Sleeping Beauty. In 2018, he wrote and starred in the play
Hireth, about a Cornish miner, and starred in
Trevithick!, a biographical comedy about
Richard Trevithick directed by
Kneehigh Theatre's
Simon Harvey.
Bait Rowe found breakthrough success for his lead role in
Bait, a film by
Mark Jenkin. He was longlisted for
Best Actor and
Most Promising Newcomer at the
2019 British Independent Film Awards.
Post-Bait career He has appeared in a number of television shows which include
The Witcher as King Henselt of Kaedwen,
House of the Dragon as
Ser Howland Sharp, and
Beyond Paradise as Matthew Colbert. He also voiced the character Godfrey/Hoarah Loux in 2022 video game
Elden Ring and starred as The Boatman in Jenkin's 2022 film
Enys Men. In 2022, Rowe called
Channel 4's
Finding the Cornish Dream series "abhorrent" and "deeply disrespectful" at a time when "[m]ost of us are scraping along making sure we make our mortgage payments." == Filmography ==