Portrait of Sam Claflin

Sam Claflin

Acting

Biography

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). Claflin gained wider recognition for playing Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games film series (2013–2015) and for his starring role in the romantic comedy Me Before You (2016). He has since portrayed Oswald Mosley in the television series Peaky Blinders (2019–2022) and Mycroft Holmes in the mystery film Enola Holmes (2020). In 2023, Claflin played Billy Dunne in Daisy Jones & The Six. Based on the book of the same name, it follows the story of a rock band in the 1970s, and premiered on Amazon Prime Video on March 3, 2023.

Born: June 27, 1986

Place of Birth: Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK

Filmography

2025
Harlan Coben's Lazarus

as Dr Joel 'Laz' Lazarus

2025
The Count of Monte Cristo

as Edmond Dantès

2024
Bagman

as Patrick McKee

2023
Daisy Jones & the Six

as Billy Dunne

2022
Charlotte

as Alexander Nagler (voice)

2022
Book of Love

as Henry

2021
Last Night in Soho

as Punter #5

2020
Enola Holmes

as Mycroft Holmes

2019
Charlie's Angels

as Alexander Brok

2019
2018
The Nightingale

as Hawkins

2018
Adrift

as Richard Sharp

2017
Journey's End

as Captain Stanhope

2017
2017
Their Finest

as Tom Buckley

2016
Me Before You

as William 'Will' Traynor

2014
Love, Rosie

as Alex Stewart

2014
The Riot Club

as Alistair Ryle

2014
The Quiet Ones

as Brian McNeil

2013
Peaky Blinders

as Oswald Mosley

2013
2012
White Heat

as Jack

2011
United

as Duncan Edwards

2010
Any Human Heart

as Logan Mountstuart

2010
2007
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Watch the Skies

as (voice)