Sam Heughan

Heughan was born on 30 April 1980 in Balmaclellan, in the historical county of
Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. At the age of five, he moved to nearby
New Galloway where he attended Kells Primary School. During this time, he lived in converted
stables in the grounds of Kenmure Castle.[5] Moving to Edinburgh at the age of twelve, he
attended James Gillespie's High School for a year and then moved to the Edinburgh Rudolf
Steiner School until the end of the sixth year.[6] He subsequently spent two years working and
travelling, before enrolling at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal
Conservatoire of Scotland) in Glasgow, graduating in 2003.[5][7] During his schooling, he
performed in numerous plays, including The Twits at Citizens Theatre, an adaptation of Fyodor
Dostoyevsky's Crime & Punishment, Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Aeschylus' Greek tragedy
Prometheus Bound, and Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.[8][9][10] Prior to his graduation, in 2002,
Heughan was one of four students chosen to represented RSAMD at the BBC Carlton Hobbs
radio talent competition.[11][12]
Heughan landed a recurring role as Scott Nielson in 2009 as Nurse Cherry Malone's boyfriend
and a secret drug dealer in the BBC soap opera Doctors.[30] He was nominated for a British Soap
Award, in the category Villain of the Year, for his twenty-one episode stint on the series.[31] The
following year, Heughan starred as the title character in the direct to video feature Young
Alexander The Great, which was filmed in Egypt and explored the life of the teenager who
would become Alexander the Great.[32] He went on to star in BBC's television film First Light,
the story of RAF pilot Geoffrey Wellum's experiences flying a Spitfire in the Battle of Britain, as
documented in his WWII memoir of the same name.[33][34] From there he featured in PBS's
BAFTA winning mini-series Any Human Heart, the story of author Logan Mountstuart's life in
the context of historical events surrounding him, based upon William Boyd's novel of the same
name.[35][36] Heughan returned to theatre later that year in dramatist Phyllis Nagy's adaptation
of Patricia Highsmith's novel The Talented Mr. Ripley at the Royal & Derngate.[37] Throughout
that same year, Heughan portrayed Hugh Tennent, founder of Tennent's Lager, in a series of
comical commercials, which won a number of accolades at the Scottish Advertising Awards.
2013 saw Heughan was cast as Jamie Fraser in the Starz time-travel drama series
Outlander.[40] He was the first cast member officially announced, to great praise by the
author of the series, Diana Gabaldon, who said, "That man is a Scot to the bone and
Jamie Fraser to the heart. Having seen Sam Heughan not just act, but be Jamie, I feel
immensely grateful to the production team for their painstaking attention to the soul of
the story and characters."[45] The role is recurring, with Heughan reprising the character
of Jamie Fraser in seasons one (which premiered in 2014) through four and the
upcoming seasons five and six.[46] He and co-star Caitriona Balfe assumed the
additional role of producers on the series in 2019.[47]
Turning to independent films in 2014, Heughan appeared in the psychological thriller

Emulsion, the story of a man haunted by the disappearance of his wife.[48] He also
starred in the comedy Heart of Lightness, in which Heughan appeared with two of his
future Outlander co-stars; Laura Donnelly, who plays Jamie's sister Jenny Murray, and
Rosie Day, who played Mary Hawkins in the second season.[49][50][51][52] He went on to
portray Jacob in the 2016 independent film When the Starlight Ends, which premiered
at the Other Venice Film Festival.[53][54]
In 2018, Heughan co-starred as MI-6 agent Sebastian in Lionsgate's comedy The Spy
Who Dumped Me, opposite Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon, which he filmed during an
Outlander hiatus.[55] That same year, in his first voice acting project, Heughan appeared
in the Warner Bros.' Interactive Entertainment video game Lego DC Super-Villains as
the Mirror Master. In May of that year, Heughan was a guest on BBC Two Scotland's
special The Adventure Show, along side Cameron Mceish, in an episode entitled "Take
A Hike" that focused on Scotland's passion for walking.[56][57] It was also announced
that Heughan would portray Corporal Harlan Shifflet in Bloodshot, an adaptation of the
best-selling comic book from the Valiant universe, opposite Vin Diesel and Michael
Sheen.[58] In November 2018, Heughan was cast as Tom Buckingham, the lead role in
SAS: Red Notice, a film based on the novel of the same name by Andy McNab.[59][60][61]
In additional to acting, Scottish clothing label Barbour named Heughan their first
Global Brand Ambassador in 2016.[62] He has released several collections since his
initial autumn/winter line in 2017, all of which he co-designed.[63][64][65]

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