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My Take
Sam Claflin interests me as a heartthrob who refused to stay one. Plenty of actors get a Pirates of the Caribbean debut and coast on charm; Claflin instead used his drama-school training to chase range, going from the swaggering Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games to quietly devastating romantic drama and a convincing rock frontman. What I respect most is the working-class steadiness underneath the polish, an Ipswich kid who treats acting as a trade rather than a lottery ticket. His move into producing suggests he wants creative control, not just casting calls, and I suspect his best decade is still ahead of him.
Overview
Samuel George Claflin (; 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 and had his first film role as Philip Swift in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Sam Claflin
- Name (Japanese)
- サム・クラフリン
- Reading
- さむ・くらふりん
- Born
- June 27, 1986 (age 39)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Tiger
- Origin
- Ipswich, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / television actor / film actor / model / film producer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- City College Norwich
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Actor — see all → · Television actor — see all → · More people from United Kingdom →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.