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Sam Heughan

Sam Heughan was born in the year 1980, he is an actor of Scottish origins and he is well known because of the role he had in Starz hit series named Outlanders as Jamie Frazer. He received two nominations for Saturn Awards. He got nominated for Laurence Olivier Award in the category of Most Promising Performer in the year 2003 for the role he had in Outlying Islands and performed in Royal Court Theatre Upstairs.

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According to his biography, Sam Heughan was born in the city of Dumfries and Galloway in the city of Balmaclellan in Scotland. For his siblings, he has a brother called Cirdan Heughan. When he was five years, his family, moved to live in New Galloway and he went to Kells Primary School. This is the time that he was living in a converted stable at the ground for Castle Kenmure and they moved to live in Edinburgh when he was 12 years old, he went to James Gillespie’s High School in one year before moving to study at Edinburgh Rudolph Steiner School until he finished sixth year. He spent two years travelling and working and then he enrolled in Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama based in Glasgow and graduated in 2003.

In the year, Heughan got a recurring role when he played like a boyfriend of Cherry Malone Nurse and he was a secret drug dealer at BBC soap opera called Doctors. In the year 2011, he was playing Prince Ashton in A Princess for Christmas at Hallmark Channel.

In the year 2011, he was in First Light as BBC drama and in the 2012; he starred Batman in Batman Live in touring stage. It is this time that he made news when he assisted in arrest of a citizen in a real life.

Sam Heughan said that he became successful mostly because of the participation in the youth theatre and he was a patron of YTAS (Youth Theatre Arts Scotland). He supports the mission of charitable organization in order to transform the lives using youth theatre and providing of inspiring opportunities of youth in Scotland.

In the year 2016, he was named the first Global Ambassador of Barbour. In the same year, he was a part in Great North Run where he helped to raise money for Bloodwise which he had been supporting from 2011 and then he became the president in Scotland. From 2015, he opened own charitable foundation called My Peak Challenge.

Sam Heughan has intense eyes and hair which will make everyone to love him. Even if he is a popular person, he had been able to keep his life hidden from the public. There is a rumor that he maybe dating Caitriona Balfe but he never confirmed if she is her girlfriend or not. His instagram is @samheughan, his twitter is @SamHeughan and his net worth is 5 million dollars.


Quick Facts
Birth Date: 30 Apr, 1980
Age: 39 yrs
Occupations: Actor
Stage actor
Film actor
Television actor
Citizenship: Scotland
Birth Place: New Galloway
Education: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Gender: Male
Description: Scottish actor
Twitter Id: SamHeughan
Net Worth 2021: 5 million
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Last Modified: Jun 27 2020
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