Sam Claflin
{{Short description|British actor (born 1986)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Sam Claflin
| image = Sam Claflin 2014.jpg
| caption = Claflin in 2014
| birth_name = Samuel George Claflin
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|06|27}}
| birth_place = Ipswich, Suffolk, England
| alma_mater = London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 2010–present
| spouse = {{marriage|Laura Haddock|2013|2019|end=separated}}
| children = 2
| Height = 5' 7"
}}
Samuel George Claflin ({{IPAc-en|'|k|l|æ|f|l|ɪ|n}}; born June 27, 1986) is a British actor. After graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2009, he began his acting career on television and had his first film role as Philip Swift in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011).
Claflin gained wider recognition for playing Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games film series (2013–2015) and for his starring roles in the romantic films Love, Rosie (2014) and Me Before You (2016). He has since starred in the films Adrift (2018) and The Nightingale (2018), and portrayed Oswald Mosley in the television series Peaky Blinders (2019–2022), Mycroft Holmes in the mystery film Enola Holmes (2020), and singer Billy Dunne in the musical drama series Daisy Jones & the Six (2023). The last of these earned him a nomination for a Golden Globe Award.
Early life
Claflin was born in Ipswich, Suffolk,{{cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/people/sam-claflin-21044787|title=Sam Claflin Biography|publisher=Biography.com|access-date=21 November 2013}} to Mark, a finance officer, and Sue Claflin (née Clarke), a teaching assistant. He has two older brothers, Benjamin and Daniel, and a younger brother, Joseph (born 1989), who is also an actor.{{cite web|url=http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/anything_you_can_do_rising_star_joe_aims_to_follow_in_brother_sam_claflin_s_footsteps_1_1494274|title=Anything you can do... – Rising star Joe aims to follow in brother Sam Claflin's footsteps – News – Norwich Evening News|publisher=Eveningnews24.co.uk|date=25 August 2012|access-date=21 November 2013|archive-date=29 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029202955/http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/anything_you_can_do_rising_star_joe_aims_to_follow_in_brother_sam_claflin_s_footsteps_1_1494274|url-status=dead}} He grew up in Norwich, Norfolk.{{Cite news |last=Myers |first=Marc |title='Daisy Jones & the Six' Sparked Sam Claflin's Love for Los Angeles |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/daisy-jones-the-six-sparked-sam-claflins-love-for-los-angeles-b04eae53 |access-date=2023-04-03 |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=28 February 2023 |language=en-US}}
As a child, he had an interest in football. He played throughout his childhood until he broke his ankle, an injury that he felt would prevent him from playing professionally. After some persuasion from his parents and a teacher upon whom he had made an impression during his high school play at Costessey High School, he pursued acting.{{cite news|url=http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/former_costessey_pupil_lands_major_manchester_united_film_role_1_728350|title=Former Costessey pupil lands major Manchester United film role|first=Peter|last=Walsh|work=Norwich Evening News|date=20 November 2010|access-date=22 August 2012|archive-date=2 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202234928/http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/former_costessey_pupil_lands_major_manchester_united_film_role_1_728350|url-status=dead}}
A member of the Norwich City School of Excellence,{{cite web|url=http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/film_star_wanted_to_play_football_for_norwich_city_1_893643|title=Film star wanted to play football for Norwich City|publisher=Eveningnews24.co.uk|access-date=21 November 2013|archive-date=6 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206103414/http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/film_star_wanted_to_play_football_for_norwich_city_1_893643|url-status=dead}} in 2003, he took up Performing Arts at Norwich City College. Claflin subsequently graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2009.{{cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/sam-claflin-snow-white-huntsman-rothc-114548|title=Interview: Sam Claflin Talks 'Snow White and the Huntsman'|publisher=ScreenRant.com|first=Roth|last=Cornet|date=11 May 2011 |access-date=22 August 2012}}
Career
=Beginnings and breakthrough (2010{{ndash}}2015)=
Claflin made his acting debut in 2010, when he appeared in two television miniseries—in The Pillars of the Earth as Richard and in Any Human Heart as young Logan Mountstuart. In March 2011, he was cast as Thomas in Seventh Son, a film adaptation of The Spook's Apprentice,{{cite news |url=https://variety.com/2011/film/news/seventh-son-finds-young-leads-1118034783/ |title='Seventh Son' finds young leads |first=Justin |last=Kroll |date=31 March 2011 |work=Variety |access-date=1 April 2011}} but was dropped for unknown reasons and was replaced by Ben Barnes.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2011/06/ben-barnes-lands-lead-opposite-jeff-bridges-in-warner-bros-seventh-son-143127/ |title=Ben Barnes Lands Lead Opposite Jeff Bridges In Warner Bros' 'Seventh Son' |first=Mike |last=Fleming |date=24 June 2011 |website=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=22 August 2012 |archive-date=21 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021061321/http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/ben-barnes-lands-lead-opposite-jeff-bridges-in-warner-bros-seventh-son/ |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}} His next appearance came in April 2011, when he portrayed footballer Duncan Edwards in the BBC TV drama United, which was centred on the events of the 1958 Munich air disaster, in which Edwards died as a result of his injuries.
In April 2010, he was cast as Philip Swift, a missionary who falls in love with the mermaid Syrena (portrayed by Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey), in 2011's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. For the film, he received a nomination in the 17th Empire Awards for "Best Male Newcomer."{{cite web|url=https://www.empireonline.com/awards2012/winners/malenewcomer.asp |title=Best Male Newcomer |work=Empire |access-date=8 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030182729/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2012/winners/malenewcomer.asp |archive-date=30 October 2013 }} In 2012, he appeared as Jack in the six-episode miniseries White Heat. Later that year, he played a supporting role in the 2012 film Snow White and the Huntsman, as William, Snow White's childhood friend. He received a nomination in the 2012 Teen Choice Awards for the category "Best Movie Breakout". Also in 2012, he was cast in the lead role in Hammer Films' The Quiet Ones, which was filmed in mid-2013 and was released in April 2014.{{cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sam-claflin-jared-harris-quiet-ones-323475 |title=Sam Claflin Signs up for 'The Quiet Ones' |date=11 May 2012 |access-date=22 August 2012 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |first=Stuart |last=Kemp |archive-date=25 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120825175809/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sam-claflin-jared-harris-quiet-ones-323475 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}
On 22 August 2012, Lionsgate announced that Claflin had been cast as Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games film series, starting with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.{{cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/catching-fire-sam-claflin-finnick-364760 |title='Catching Fire' Casts Sam Claflin as Finnick |date=22 August 2012 |access-date=22 August 2012 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |first=Philiana |last=Ng |archive-date=23 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120823213332/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/catching-fire-sam-claflin-finnick-364760 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/sam-claflin-cast-as-finnick-in-the-hunger-games-catching-fire-2012228|title=Sam Claflin Cast as Finnick in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire|last=Johnson|first=Zach|date=22 August 2012|work=Us Weekly|access-date=8 December 2013}} The director of Catching Fire, Francis Lawrence, stated of Claflin's performance during filming: "Finnick's an interesting character. At first he feels like a bit of a flirt and there's a little bit of sexual tension, but really you kind of fall in love with the guy and you see that there's a real deep emotional side to him. It's one of the reasons I really hired him in the first place was that it's where his character goes in the next couple of stories and I just think he did a fantastic job."{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1710970/catching-fire-sam-claflin-comic-con.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723211800/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1710970/catching-fire-sam-claflin-comic-con.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 July 2013|title='Catching Fire': How Sam Claflin Captured Finnick's 'Sexual Tension'|last=Bentley|first=Josh|author2=Josh Horowitz |date=21 July 2013|publisher=MTV|access-date=8 December 2013}} The film was released in November 2013 to general acclaim and Claflin's portrayal of Finnick received positive reviews.{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_hunger_games_catching_fire/|title=The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)|work=Rotten Tomatoes|date=22 November 2013 |access-date=8 December 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/22/showbiz/movies/hunger-games-catching-fire-review-ew/|title=Review: 'Catching Fire' smoothly exciting|last=Gleiberman|first=Owen|date=22 November 2013|publisher=CNN|access-date=8 December 2013}} Claflin reprised the role in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, released in November 2014, and Part 2, released in November 2015.{{cite web|url=http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/hunger-games-mockingjay-shooting-under-construction-221100413.html|title=Hunger Games: Mockingjay shooting site under construction|last=Morris|first=Christopher|date=4 December 2013|work=Yahoo|access-date=8 December 2013}}
In February 2013, it was announced that Claflin was cast as Alex in the film adaptation of Cecelia Ahern's novel Where Rainbows End, distributed as Love, Rosie in some territories.{{cite web|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/cecelia-ahern-love-rosie-to-be-adapted_b65427 |title=Cecelia Ahern's 'Love, Rosie' To Be Adapted – GalleyCat |publisher=Mediabistro.com |date=14 February 2013 |access-date=21 November 2013}} The following month, he starred in the TV film Mary and Martha as Ben, which was broadcast by BBC One.{{cite web|author=Danny Cohen, Controller, BBC One |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/mary-martha.html |title=Media Centre – Hilary Swank and Brenda Blethyn to star in new film for BBC One |publisher=BBC |date=17 July 2012 |access-date=21 November 2013}} He received critical acclaim for his role as Oxford University student Alistair Ryle in the British dramatic thriller The Riot Club with Charlotte O'Sullivan of the London Evening Standard saying "Claflin captures his character's vitriol very well" and Laura Dibdin of Digital Spy saying "Claflin brings intrigue and vulnerability to offset the sense of entitlement thus making Alistair the film's most fascinating character". In 2014, Claflin also starred alongside Lily Collins and Suki Waterhouse in the romantic comedy drama film Love, Rosie, which was released to mixed reviews from critics but became a success among audiences.
=From ''Me Before You'' to independent films and television (2016{{ndash}}present)=
In 2016, Claflin reprised his role as William, Snow White's childhood friend, in several scenes of the sequel The Huntsman: Winter's War. The same year, he starred in Me Before You, the film adaptation of the novel of the same name, in which he played William Traynor.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/sam-claflin-returns-for-the-huntsman-without-kristen-stewarts-snow-white/|title=Sam Claflin Returns for 'The Huntsman' Without Kristen Stewart's Snow White|last=Geier|first=Thom|date=7 May 2015|website=TheWrap|language=en-US|access-date=19 May 2016}} Claflin gained further critical acclaim for his role of Captain Stanhope in the war drama Journey's End (2017) and Adrift (2018).
In 2018, Claflin joined the fifth season of the BBC television drama Peaky Blinders, as the British fascist politician Oswald Mosley.{{Cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2018/10/19/hunger-games-star-sam-claflin-joins-cast-peaky-blinders/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2018/10/19/hunger-games-star-sam-claflin-joins-cast-peaky-blinders/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Hunger Games star Sam Claflin joins cast of Peaky Blinders |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=19 October 2018}}{{cbignore}} He starred in The Corrupted in 2019.{{Cite web | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sam-claflin-joins-timothy-spall-corrupted-1081912 |title=Berlin: Sam Claflin Joins Timothy Spall in 'The Corrupted' (Exclusive) |last=Vlessing |first=Etan |date=5 February 2018 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=23 November 2020}}{{Cite web | url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/noel-clarke-sam-claflin-hugh-bonneville-the-corrupted-1202728723/ |title=Noel Clarke Joins Sam Claflin in Crime Thriller 'The Corrupted' (Exclusive) |last=Clarke |first=Stewart |date=16 March 2018 |work=Variety |access-date=23 November 2020}} In September 2020, he co-starred in the Netflix original film Enola Holmes as Mycroft Holmes, elder brother of the title character.
In 2023, Claflin played Billy Dunne in Daisy Jones & the Six. Based on the book of the same name, it follows the story of a rock band in the 1970s, and premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 3 March 2023.{{Cite web |last=Lind |first=Emily Alyn |date=21 February 2023 |title=Billy Dunne will be played by Sam Claflin in Daisy Jones & The Six |url=https://nexttvseries.com/daisy-jones-and-the-six-season-1-premiere-date-on-prime-video-cast-story-trailer/ |access-date=23 February 2023 |website=Next TV Series |language=en-US}} Claflin performed vocals on Aurora, the fictional album recorded by the band, which was released on 1 March 2023. He is set to star in an Italian-British television adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's novel The Count of Monte-Cristo (1844–1846).{{cite web|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a44763011/sam-claflin-period-makeover-monte-cristo/|title=Peaky Blinders' Sam Claflin has period drama makeover filming new TV series|last=Warner|first=Sam|date=8 August 2023|work=Digital Spy|access-date=16 August 2023}}
Personal life
In 2011, Claflin started dating actress Laura Haddock,{{cite web|title=Sam Claflin: "I'm very gentlemanly"|url=http://sg.news.yahoo.com/sam-claflin-im-very-gentlemanly-003000927.html|publisher=Yahoo|date=30 May 2012|access-date=8 April 2013}} whom he had met in an audition for My Week with Marilyn. The two married in July 2013 in a private ceremony.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sam-claflin-the-hunger-games-catching-fire-star-marries-laura-haddock/|title=Sam Claflin, "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" star, marries Laura Haddock|date=1 August 2013|publisher=CBS News|access-date=8 December 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/hunger-games-star-sam-claflin-marries-actress-laura-haddock-in-private-ceremony-2013317|title=Sam Claflin, Hunger Games Star, Marries Actress Laura Haddock in Private Ceremony|date=1 August 2013|access-date=31 July 2013}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/oct/25/sam-claflin-interview-i-hate-being-offered-heart-throb-roles|title=Sam Claflin: 'I hate being offered heart-throb after heart-throb'|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=25 October 2015|first=Ed|last=Cumming|date=25 October 2015}} They have a son named Pip ({{born-in|December 8, 2015}}), and a daughter named Margot ({{born-in|January 6, 2018}}).{{cite web|url=https://people.com/parents/sam-claflin-welcomes-first-child-laura-haddock/|title=Sam Claflin and Laura Haddock Welcome First Child|work=People|date=20 January 2016|access-date=27 September 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://people.com/parents/sam-claflin-laura-haddock-welcome-daughter-second-child/|title=Sam Claflin and Laura Haddock Welcome Second Child|work=People|last1=Juneau|first1=Jen|last2=Leon|first2=Anya|date=7 February 2018|access-date=7 March 2018}} On 20 August 2019, Claflin and Haddock announced their legal separation.{{cite web|url=https://people.com/movies/sam-claflin-wife-laura-haddock-split-announce-separation/|title=Sam Claflin and Wife Laura Haddock Announce Separation After 6 Years of Marriage|work=People|last1=Boucher|first1=Ashley|date=19 August 2019|access-date=17 May 2022}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
| 2011
| Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | |
| 2012
| William | |
| 2013
| data-sort-value="Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The"| The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | |
| rowspan="4"|2014
| data-sort-value="Quiet Ones, The"| The Quiet Ones | Brian McNeil | |
| data-sort-value="Riot Club, The"| The Riot Club
| Alistair Ryle | |
| Love, Rosie
| Alex Stewart | |
| data-sort-value="Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, The"| The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
| rowspan="2"| Finnick Odair | |
| 2015
| data-sort-value="Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, The"| The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 | |
| rowspan="3"|2016
| data-sort-value="Huntsman: Winter's War, The"| The Huntsman: Winter's War | William | Cameo |
| Me Before You
| Will Traynor | |
| Their Finest
| Tom Buckley | |
| rowspan="2"|2017
| Philip Ashley | |
| Journey's End
| Captain Stanhope | |
| rowspan="2"|2018
| Adrift | Richard Sharp | |
| data-sort-value="Nightingale, The"| The Nightingale
| Lieutenant Hawkins | |
| rowspan="3"|2019
| data-sort-value="Corrupted, The"| The Corrupted | Liam McDonagh | |
| Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
| Merlin | Voice |
| Charlie's Angels
| Alexander Brok | |
| rowspan="2"|2020
| Jack | |
| Enola Holmes
| |
| rowspan="3"|2021
| James Flagg | |
| Last Night in Soho
| Young Det. Lindsey (Punter #5) | Cameo |
| Charlotte
| Alex Nagler | Voice |
| 2022
| Henry Copper | |
| 2023
|{{N/A}} |Executive producer; short film |
| 2024
|Patrick McKee | |
=Television=
{{pending series key}}
| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
| rowspan="3"|2010
| data-sort-value="Pillars of the Earth, The"| The Pillars of the Earth | Richard of Kingsbridge | Miniseries; 8 episodes |
| data-sort-value="Lost Future, The"| The Lost Future
| Kaleb | Television film |
| Any Human Heart
| Young Logan Mountstuart | Miniseries; 4 episodes |
| 2011
| United | Television film |
| 2012
| Young Jack Walsh | Miniseries; 6 episodes |
| 2013
| Ben | Television film |
| 2019–2022
| Main role |
| 2023
| Billy Dunne | Miniseries |
| 2024
| |
| TBA
| style="background:#FFFFCC;" |Lazarus{{dagger}} | Laz | Filming and also executive producer{{cite web|url= https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a46814557/harlan-coben-lazarus-filming-sam-claflin/|website=Digital Spy|accessdate=16 February 2024|title=Harlan Coben's new show gets first look at cast filming |first=Dan|last=Seddon|date=16 February 2024}} |
Awards and nominations
References
{{reflist|30em}}
External links
{{Commons category|Sam Claflin}}
- {{IMDb name|3510471}}
- [http://www.biography.com/people/sam-claflin-21044787 Sam Claflin] at Biography.com
{{Glamour Awards Man of the Year}}
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Category:21st-century English male actors
Category:Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Category:English male film actors
Category:English male television actors
Category:Male actors from Ipswich