Sam Claflin

Samuel George Claflin, born 27 June 1986, is a British actor renowned for his work in both film and television. His acting career sparked after graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2009, and soon after he had his first film role as Philip Swift in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011). He later gained prominent recognition for playing Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games film series (2013–2015), starring in the romantic film Me Before You (2016), and roles in Adrift (2018) and The Nightingale (2018). CLaflin's portrayal of 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) has also garnered him recognition. He earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role in Daisy Jones & The Six.

Early in his life, Claflin harboured a keen interest in football until an ankle injury led him to the pursuit of acting. His acting debut came in 2010 in two television miniseries before achieving a breakthrough in 2011 with Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Besides his career in film, Claflin starred in several other notable roles in television series such as Peaky Blinders and Daisy Jones & The Six. In his personal life, he was married to actress Laura Haddock and they have two children. His future projects include an Italian-British television adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's novel The Count of Monte-Cristo (1844–1846).