1. Sam Roland Heughan is a Scottish actor, producer, author, and entrepreneur.
26 Facts About Sam Heughan
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Sam Heughan was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Performer for his performance in Outlying Islands performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs.
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Sam Roland Heughan was born on 30 April 1980 in Balmaclellan, Dumfries and Galloway.
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Sam Heughan's parents had been part of a hippie community in London called Gandalf's Garden which was heavily influenced by the works of JR R Tolkien, inspiring them to name Heughan and his older brother after characters from The Lord of the Rings.
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Aged 5, Sam Heughan moved from Balmaclellan to nearby New Galloway where he attended Kells Primary School.
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Sam Heughan joined the Lyceum Youth theatre in 1998 and in 1999 was awarded a place at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, graduating in 2003.
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In 2002, shortly before graduating, Heughan was one of four students chosen to represent RSAMD at the BBC Carleton Hobbs radio talent competition.
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Sam Heughan was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Performer for his performance.
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In 2004, Sam Heughan appeared in his first professional television role in the miniseries Island at War, a WWII drama about the German occupation of the Channel Islands.
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Between 2007 and 2009 Heughan made appearances in several live productions, including Noel Coward's The Vortex at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Citizens Theatre, Iain F MacLeod's The Pearlfishers at the Traverse Theatre, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the Dundee Repertory Theatre, Macbeth at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, and Nicholas de Jongh's Plague Over England at the Duchess Theatre.
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In 2009, Sam Heughan landed a recurring role as Scott Nielson, Nurse Cherry Malone's boyfriend and a secret drug dealer in the BBC soap opera Doctors.
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Sam Heughan was nominated for a British Soap Award, in the category Villain of the Year, for his twenty-one episode stint on the series.
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Sam Heughan went on to star in BBC's television film First Light, the story of RAF pilot Geoffrey Wellum's experiences flying a Spitfire in the Battle of Britain, as documented in his WWII memoir of the same name.
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In 2013, Sam Heughan was cast as Jamie Fraser in the Starz time-travel drama series Outlander.
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Sam Heughan starred in the comedy Heart of Lightness, in which Heughan appeared with two of his future Outlander co-stars: Laura Donnelly, who plays Jamie's sister Jenny Murray, and Rosie Day, who played Mary Hawkins in the second season.
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Sam Heughan went on to play the lead role of Jacob in the 2016 independent film When the Starlight Ends, which premiered at the Other Venice Film Festival.
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In 2018, Sam Heughan co-starred as MI6 agent Sebastian Henshaw in the action comedy film The Spy Who Dumped Me, opposite Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon, which he filmed during an Outlander filming hiatus.
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That same year, in his first voice-acting project, Heughan appeared in the Warner Bros.
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In November 2018, Heughan was cast as Tom Buckingham, the lead role in SAS: Red Notice, a film based on the novel of the same name by Andy McNab.
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In 2020, Heughan was cast as Henry in the Regency-era romantic comedy Mr Malcom's List, based on a book of the same name by Suzanne Allain.
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Sam Heughan was cast alongside Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Celine Dion in the romantic drama Love Again, a remake of the German film SMS Fur Dich.
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In November 2020, Sam Heughan published a travelogue titled Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other with Outlander co-star Graham McTavish.
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Also in 2020, Sam Heughan launched his own whisky brand, The Sassenach, through the Great Glen Company, which he founded.
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In 2015, Sam Heughan started the organisation My Peak Challenge, a training, nutrition, and support programme that provides participants with a sense of community as they work towards personal goals, while concurrently raising money for charity.
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In 2019, Sam Heughan teamed up with Omaze, raffling off a date to the 2019 MPC Gala, which raised $2,892,080 for Bloodwise UK.
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In September 2016, Sam Heughan partook in the Great North Run to raise funds for Bloodwise, which he has supported since 2011, and became president of Scotland Bloodwise.