Sam Claflin

Born

1986-06-27

Birthplace

Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK

Biography

Samuel George Claflin (/ˈklæflɪn/; born 27 June 1986) is an English actor. After graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2009, he began his acting career on television. He 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 Golden Globe Award. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Sam Claflin, licensed under CC-BY-SA; full list of contributors is on Wikipedia.