Sam Hoare (actor)

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| name = Sam Hoare

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1981|06|27}}{{cn|date=January 2025}}

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| birth_name = Simon Patrick Douro Hoare

| nationality = British

| education = Eton College

| alma mater = University of Edinburgh

| occupation = Actor, director, writer

| yearsactive = 2006–present

| spouse = {{marriage|Romola Garai|2014}}

| children = 2

| known_for = Dickie Burnell, in Bert & Dickie

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Simon Patrick Douro Hoare (born 27 June 1981), known by the stage-name Sam Hoare, is a British actor and director known for his role as rower Dickie Burnell, alongside Matt Smith, in the BBC One Olympic drama Bert and Dickie (2012).{{cite web|last=Conner|first=Megan|title=Why we're watching: Sam Hoare|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2012/jul/15/sam-hoare-why-were-watching|website=The Guardian|date=14 July 2012 |access-date=30 November 2012}}

Hoare wrote and directed his début feature film, Having You, which premièred in May 2013 on Sky Movies.{{cite web|title=Having You|url=http://skymovies.sky.com/having-you|publisher=Sky Movies|access-date=15 April 2013}}{{cite web|title=Having You|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2343549/|publisher=IMDb|access-date=25 October 2013}}

Early life and education

Born Simon Patrick Douro Hoare, he is the son of the late Timothy James Douro Hoare and his former wife "Linda" Kinvara Cayzer, the granddaughter of Herbert Cayzer, 1st Baron Rotherwick.{{cite web |url=http://peeragenews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/daughter-for-romola-garai-and-sam-hoare.html |title=Daughter for Romola Garai and Sam Hoare |first=Michael |last=Rhodes |website=Peerage News |date=21 March 2013 |access-date=23 January 2015}} Hoare was educated at Eton College,{{cite web|last=Thorpe|first=Vanessa|title=Eton spawns a new breed of stage and screen luminaries |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/jan/21/eton-stage-screen-luminaries|work=The Observer|date=21 January 2012 |access-date=15 April 2013}} and then read Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, where he performed in a number of plays at the student theatre.{{cite web |title=Sam Hoare: biography |url=http://www.castingnetwork.co.uk/Casting/html/cast_actor_bio.asp?cdid=0&actorid=1133775155|website=CastNet UK|access-date=15 April 2013}}

Acting career

Hoare went on to perform on stage, including productions at the Chichester Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe and The Theatre Royal Haymarket, for a 6-month run of Breakfast at Tiffany's directed by Sean Mathias.{{cite web|title=Breakfast at Tiffany's |url=http://www.thisistheatre.com/londonshows/breakfastattiffanys.html|website=This is Theatre|access-date=15 April 2013}} Alongside his theatrical and TV appearances, including EastEnders{{cite news|last=Sack|first=Rosalind|title=Hot Right Now|newspaper=Reveal|date=22 January 2013}} and Doctors, Hoare appeared in films; with Nicole Kidman in The Golden Compass and Samuel L. Jackson in Captain America: The First Avenger.

After his role in Bert & Dickie in 2012, Hoare guest-starred in BBC One's Father Brown{{cite web|title=Father Brown, 'The Hammer of God'|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q0q1p|publisher=BBC|access-date=15 April 2013}} and in Stephen Poliakoff's BBC2 drama Dancing on the Edge,{{cite news|last=Jury|first=Louise|title=Poliakoff drama tells how royalty fought racism to champion black musicians|newspaper=London Evening Standard|date=25 October 2012}} as well as a comedy lead in Blandings for BBC One, based on the celebrated stories of P.G. Wodehouse; also starring Jennifer Saunders, Timothy Spall, David Walliams and Paloma Faith.{{cite web|last=Daniels|first=Colin|title=David Walliams, Paloma Faith join BBC comedy 'Blandings' |url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a376451/david-walliams-paloma-faith-join-bbc-comedy-blandings.html|work=Digital Spy|date=14 April 2012 |access-date=30 November 2012}}

Hoare played the role of production assistant Douglas Camfield in the BBC drama An Adventure in Space and Time to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who.{{cite news|title=1963: brought back to life!|newspaper=Dr Who Magazine (Panini Comics) (458)|date=7 April 2013}}

As director and writer

Hoare has directed a number of music videos and two short films; Training Day which was accepted into several major festivals including the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival and the Encounters International Film Festival;{{cite web|title=Sam Hoare|url=http://www.wigwamfilms.com/#!sam-hoare/c9k2|website=Wigwam Films|access-date=15 April 2013}} and more recently, Babysitting starring Romola Garai, Dan Stevens and Imogen Stubbs.{{cite web|title=Mark Nutkins|url=http://www.marknutkinsdop.co.uk/video.php?id=63|website=marknutkinsdop.co.uk|access-date=15 April 2013}}{{dead link|date=January 2025}}

Alongside Having You, Hoare has a number of feature writing projects in development, as well as a TV pilot Underperforming which is currently in development with Finite Films.{{cite web|title=Underperforming: Interview with writer/director Sam Hoare|url=http://www.finitefunnies.com/portfolio/underperfoming-with-sam-hoare-and-steven-cree/|publisher=Finite Funnies|access-date=30 November 2012}}{{update needed|date=January 2025}}

Personal life

In March 2013, his partner actress Romola Garai gave birth to their daughter. Hoare and Garai married in July 2014.{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-news/10986298/Romola-Garai-secretly-weds-Sam-Hoare.html |title=Romola Garai 'secretly' weds Sam Hoare |first=Tim |last=Walker |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=24 July 2014 |location=London |issn=0307-1235 |oclc=49632006 |access-date=23 January 2015}}

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"\|Notes
2007 \| The Golden Compass \| Second in Command \|
2008 \| Lecture 21 \| Musician
2011 \| Captain America: The First Avenger \| Nervous Recruit \|
2013 \| Having You \| {{n/a}} \| Writer and director
2014 \| Keeping Rosy \| Tom \|
rowspan="3"\|2015 \| Solitary \| James \|
Legend \| Stefan De Faye \|
The Program \| Stephen Swart \|
rowspan="2"\|2018 \| The Mercy \| Mr. Hughes
Hurricane \| Kellett \|
2023 \| Club Zero \| Fred's Father
{{TableTBA}} \| Hedda \| Detective Logan \| Post-production

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable"|Notes

2007

| The Golden Compass

| Second in Command

2008

| Lecture 21

| Musician

2011

| Captain America: The First Avenger

| Nervous Recruit

2013

| Having You

| {{n/a}}

| Writer and director

2014

| Keeping Rosy

| Tom

rowspan="3"|2015

| Solitary

| James

Legend

| Stefan De Faye

The Program

| Stephen Swart

rowspan="2"|2018

| The Mercy

| Mr. Hughes

Hurricane

| Kellett

2023

| Club Zero

| Fred's Father

| Hedda

| Detective Logan

| Post-production

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"\|Notes
2006 \| Jane Eyre \| Lynn Brother \| 4 episodes
rowspan="2"\|2007 \| Lilies \| Peter Parks \| Episode: "The Release"
Party Animals \| Tom Merchant \| Episode #1.5
2008 \| Summerhill \| Phil \| Television film
2008, 2011 \| Doctors \| Gavin Peterson / Glen Newman \| 2 episodes
2009 \| EastEnders \| Kieran \| 1 episode
2010 \| Borgen \| Engelsk analytiker No. 2 \| Episode: "Dyden i midten"
2012 \| Bert and Dickie \| Richard "Dickie" Burnell \| Television film
rowspan="4"\|2013 \| Father Brown \| Norman Bohun \| Episode: "The Hammer of God"
Blandings \| Rupert Bingham \| Episode: "Company for Gertrude"
Dancing on the Edge \| Eric \| 3 episodes
An Adventure in Space and Time \| Douglas Camfield \| Television film
2015 \| Life in Squares \| Young Clive Bell \| 2 episodes
rowspan="5"\|2016 \| Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands \| Rowan \| Episode #1.5
Dickensian \| Matthew Pocket \| 6 episodes
Plebs \| Sebastus \| Episode: "The Cupid"
National Treasure \| Tom \| Episode #1.1
Dark Angel \| James Robinson \| 2 episodes
rowspan="3"\|2017 \| Endeavour \| Dr. Tristan Berger \| Episode: "Harvest"
Grantchester \| Mark Davies \| Episode #3.6
Delicious \| Harry \| Episode: "Secrets of the Father"
2017, 2024 \| Outlander \| Lord Hal Melton / Harold 'Hal' Grey \| 3 episodes
rowspan="2"\|2018 \| McMafia \| Alan Reynott \| 2 episodes
Death in Paradise \| Daniel Friend \| Episode: "Meditated in Murder"
rowspan="4"\|2019 \| Traitors \| Neville \| 3 episodes
Knightfall \| Gabriel \| 2 episodes
Pennyworth \| Ian Thurso \| Episode: "Martha Kane"
Carnival Row \| Leslie Boythorne \| Episode: "Unaccompanied Fae"
rowspan="3"\|2021 \| Wolfe \| Darren Belby \| Episode #1.1
Showtrial \| Adam Reynolds \| 4 episodes
The Girl Before \| Charlie \| Episode #1.1
rowspan="3"\|2022 \| The Capture \| Ed Polczynski \| 2 episodes
The Ex-Wife \| Johnny \| 2 episodes
Miss Scarlet and The Duke \| Arthur St John Hudson \| 2 episodes
rowspan="2"\|2023 \| Dalgliesh \| Maximillian Howarth \| 2 episodes
The Castaways \| Pete \| 3 episodes
2023–present \| Grace \| ACC Cassian Pewe \| 7 episodes
2025 \| Playing Nice \| Mr. Kelly \| 2 episodes

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable"|Notes

2006

| Jane Eyre

| Lynn Brother

| 4 episodes

rowspan="2"|2007

| Lilies

| Peter Parks