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Sam Claflin

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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.

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

The Riot Club

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

As Finnick Odair

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

As Philip

The Count of Monte Cristo

As Edmond Dantès

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

As Finnick Odair

Me Before You

As William 'Will' Traynor

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

As Finnick Odair

Daisy Jones & the Six

As Billy Dunne

Chains

KinoChain journeys

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The University of British Cinema

From the dreaming spires of Cambridge to the redbrick campuses of the provinces, a journey through the British university film and what it reveals about class,...

8 films

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