Sam Heughan
Sam Heughan
Sam Heughanis a Scottish actor, best known for his role as Jamie Fraser in the Starz series Outlander. He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Performer in 2003, for his performance in the play Outlying Islands, performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth30 April 1980
CityNew Galloway, Scotland
love people watching
There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
adapt cast change close people type versatile
People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!
brought converted pretend pretending robert running sort spent
I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
language shakespeare
Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.
almost edinburgh sort
My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
bit turned
Working on 'Outlander' has been a delight, it really has. I had kind of forgotten what Scotland was like, and I'd turned into a bit of a Londoner.
certainly liberating surprised wear
You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
initial interact promote
I actually got an initial sense of how big 'Outlander' was going to be on Twitter. We're all on there to help promote the show and also interact with the fans.
sort touring tv
I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.
grew
I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
I auditioned for 'Game of Thrones' seven times! Loads of times.
Scotland is about layering. The weather changes every 10 minutes.
men kind obsessed
I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits. Having gone back to Scotland to work on Outlander, I've been climbing a lot and getting out in the Highlands.
sports book thinking
I've always been into endurance sport, which I think is more about your mind pushing your body, which is definitely why that Bear Grylls book sung to me.