Sam Darbyshire

{{Short description|English actor (b. 1989)}}

Sam Darbyshire (born 26 March 1989){{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=608360639&ref=ts|title=Sam Darbyshire|publisher=Facebook.com|accessdate=2008-01-22}} is an English television actor best known for his role as Jamie "Fletch" Fletcher on the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks. He has also appeared in several advertisements and had a small role in Coronation Street. He was a member of a local youth theatre group in Wigan, Willpower Youth Theatre, near his childhood home in Standish, Greater Manchester. In his final year of secondary school, Darbyshire was involved in a production of the musical Grease.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/britain/article/0,2763,1438506,00.html|title=What's it really like being 15 today?|publisher=The Guardian|date=2005-03-16|accessdate=2007-02-03 | location=London | first=Laura | last=Barton}}

Darbyshire attended Winstanley College.