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Born April 30, 1980, New Galloway, Scotland - Scottish theater, film and television actor. Parents, former members of London's Gandolf's Garden hippie community and big Lord of the Rings fans, named their children after the book's characters, Cirdan and Samwise. He spent his childhood in the village of Balmaclellan with a hundred inhabitants, where he grew up in a residential building rebuilt from the stables of an ancient castle. Father left the family when Sam was 3 years old. The mother took on any odd job to provide for her two sons. At 12 he moved to Edinburgh with his mother, who at 30 decided to go to art college to study drawing. In Edinburgh he entered the James Gillespie School, but a year later transferred to the Edinburgh Rudolph Steiner School. After leaving school, he traveled to Europe and America for two years. Returning to Scotland, he joined the Lyceum Youth Theater in Edinburgh, and in 2000, finally deciding to become an actor, he entered the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Glasgow. After a modest theatrical debut in a children's Christmas performance, he received one of the main roles in a production of the Traverse Theater in Edinburgh. A new play by Scottish playwright David Greg, "The Distant Islands" told the story of two entomologists, on the eve of World War II, engaged in researching birds on a small deserted Scottish island. After its 2002 premiere at the Edinburgh Arts Festival, the play has won several awards and received positive reviews from critics. The performances continued successfully at the Royal Court Theater in London's West End, at the Toronto Festival, and then on a tour of Scotland, where the actor spent most of his second and third year at the academy. In 2003, her role in the play Faraway Islands was nominated for the prestigious Laurence Olivier Theater Award in the Most Promising Performer category, and theater critic Charles Spencer of The Daily Telegraph included a scene with Heughan and actress Leslie Hart in the top five. best erotic scenes in the theater, and The Scotsman newspaper ranked 8th among the 100 most desirable bachelors of 2002. After graduation, he began acting for television and films. The first appearance on the screen took place in a supporting role in the six-part mini-series of the British TV channel ITV "War on the Island" about the occupation of the Channel Islands. And the first film work was the main role in the film "Young Alexander the Great" co-produced by the USA, Great Britain, Greece and Egypt. The film, which also starred Lauren Cohen and Paul Telfer, was supposed to be the first project of the own company of the producer of "Superman" Ilya Zalkind, but after the filming ended it was never released. In the same year, he was considered as one of the contenders for the lead role in Brian Singer's Superman Returns, but lost it to Brandon Routh. In 2005, he returned to theatrical career as Plowman in the Citizens Theater production of one of the most popular Scottish plays Knives in Chickens by David Harrower, a mystical parable about three inhabitants of a remote village: Woman, Miller and Pahar. For the next several years, he continued to play on the stages of Scottish theaters and television, including regular roles in two soap operas. In the BBC One Scotland soap opera "City on the River" for two seasons (2005-2006) he played the role of football star Andrew Murray. And the role of drug dealer Scott Nielsen in the eleventh season (2009) of the BBC One soap opera Doctors brought the actor a nomination for the British Soap Awards in the category "Best villain" .
In 2010, he starred in the BBC Two biographical drama First Light, based on the novel by pilot Jeffrey Vellum, as part of the Battle of Britain 70th Anniversary. Among theatrical works outside of Scotland, the most notable were roles in the theatrical version of the novel The Talented Mr. Ripley (2010) opposite Kyle Solier (Ripley) and Michelle Ryan (Marge) and the experimental production about Olympic swimming champions Amphibians (2011). staged in a former London Victorian bathhouse, critically acclaimed for its innovative approach and several nominations for the Offies.
Independent Theater Awards For his participation in the TV movie "Princess for Christmas" (2011), the romantic melodrama of the American television channel Hallmark, also marked by the appearance on the screen of Roger Moore in a supporting role, he was nominated for a Grace Award along with Katie McGrath in the category "Most Inspiring Performer on Television." .
In 2011, he landed the title role in the first live performance of the Batman comics. The ? 7.5m show with 42 actors, pyrotechnic effects, acrobatic elements, a 105-foot screen and three-dimensional sets has become one of the most expensive theatrical productions in the UK. Batman Live has traveled to 15 countries and has been successfully received in both the UK and the US, although critics have pointed out that the show is primarily aimed at children. But despite the reviews, the US tour ended ahead of time due to poor box office receipts and the planned five-year tour was completed 1.5 years later. After repeated unsuccessful auditions for US television (in particular, he repeatedly auditioned for various roles for the fantasy television series "Game of Thrones"), he was approved for one of the main roles in the new television series "Outlander" on Starz TV, based on the popular novel series by Diana Gabaldon. Following its release, Outlander was awarded People's Choice for Favorite Sci-Fi / Fantasy Cable TV Show and Television Critics Choice Awards for Most Impressive New TV Series. The success of the television series led to a surge in popularity of the actor in the United States, but left little known in the UK. He was named Favorite British Actor of 2014 by BBC America, and Heughan and her partner Katrina Balfe were named Best On-Screen Couple of 2014 by TV Guide. In addition to his participation in television films and television series, he starred in several low-budget independent films: the British noir thriller Emulsion (2013, filming - 2010) by Indian director Suki Singh about a man obsessed with finding his mysteriously missing wife; comedy drama Heart of Light (2014, filming - 2013) by Norwegian Jan Vardoen about a narcoleptic shooting a film based on the play by Henrik Ibsen beyond the Arctic Circle, and the American fantastic black comedy When the Stars Go Out (2015) by Adam Segal about a writer who discovered that he can rewrite his past. In 2010-2012 he was the face of the Tennent's Lager Scottish Light Beer Export Campaign, which won the Scottish Advertising Awards twice in the Best Television Advertising Campaign category. In 2013, he starred in the video for the song "I Want You To Stay" by pop-folk musician Robbie Boyd.
Together with a group of fans, he is collecting donations for the British charity for research of leukemia and lymphoma (Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research), organized the My Peak Challenge and participates in marathons and triathlon competitions and in its support. Since 2013, he has been the official patron of the Youth Theater Arts Scotland, in one of which he began his acting career.

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