Sam Roland Heughan (/ˈhjuË É™n/; born 30 April 1980) is a Scottish
actor and producer. He is best known for his starring role as Jamie
Fraser in the Starz historical drama series Outlander
(2014â€"present), for which he won the People's Choice Award for
Favorite Cable Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actor, the Saturn Award for Best
Actor on Television, and received a nomination for the Critics' Choice
Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series.Heughan also starred
in films, such as the spy comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018) and the
superhero action film Bloodshot (2020). Among his numerous plays, he
was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising
Performer for his performance in Outlying Islands, performed at the
Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. Heughan received an honorary doctorate
"in recognition for his outstanding contribution to acting and
charitable endeavours" from the University of Stirling in June 2019.
His second honorary doctorate in recognition of his artistic success
and his charitable work was bestowed by the University of Glasgow in
July 2019.Heughan was born on 30 April 1980 in Balmaclellan, in the
historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway,
Scotland. His parents had been part of a hippie community in London
called Gandalf's Garden which was heavily influenced by the works of
J. R. R. Tolkien, and this inspired them to name Heughan and his older
brother Cirdan after characters from The Lord of the Rings. His
mother, Chrissie Heughan, an artist and artisan papermaker, struggled
to raise the two brothers after their father left when they were both
young. At the age of five, Heughan moved to nearby New Galloway where
he attended Kells Primary School. During this time, he lived in
converted stables in the grounds of Kenmure Castle. Moving to
Edinburgh at the age of twelve, he attended James Gillespie's High
School for a year and then moved to the Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner
School until the end of the sixth year. He subsequently spent two
years working and travelling, before enrolling at the Royal Scottish
Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
in Glasgow, graduating in 2003. During his schooling, he performed in
numerous plays, including The Twits at Citizens Theatre, an adaptation
of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, Anton Chekhov's The
Seagull, Aeschylus's Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound, and Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet. Prior to his graduation, in 2002 Heughan was one of
four students chosen to represent RSAMD at the BBC Carlton Hobbs radio
talent competition.
actor and producer. He is best known for his starring role as Jamie
Fraser in the Starz historical drama series Outlander
(2014â€"present), for which he won the People's Choice Award for
Favorite Cable Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actor, the Saturn Award for Best
Actor on Television, and received a nomination for the Critics' Choice
Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series.Heughan also starred
in films, such as the spy comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018) and the
superhero action film Bloodshot (2020). Among his numerous plays, he
was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising
Performer for his performance in Outlying Islands, performed at the
Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. Heughan received an honorary doctorate
"in recognition for his outstanding contribution to acting and
charitable endeavours" from the University of Stirling in June 2019.
His second honorary doctorate in recognition of his artistic success
and his charitable work was bestowed by the University of Glasgow in
July 2019.Heughan was born on 30 April 1980 in Balmaclellan, in the
historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway,
Scotland. His parents had been part of a hippie community in London
called Gandalf's Garden which was heavily influenced by the works of
J. R. R. Tolkien, and this inspired them to name Heughan and his older
brother Cirdan after characters from The Lord of the Rings. His
mother, Chrissie Heughan, an artist and artisan papermaker, struggled
to raise the two brothers after their father left when they were both
young. At the age of five, Heughan moved to nearby New Galloway where
he attended Kells Primary School. During this time, he lived in
converted stables in the grounds of Kenmure Castle. Moving to
Edinburgh at the age of twelve, he attended James Gillespie's High
School for a year and then moved to the Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner
School until the end of the sixth year. He subsequently spent two
years working and travelling, before enrolling at the Royal Scottish
Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
in Glasgow, graduating in 2003. During his schooling, he performed in
numerous plays, including The Twits at Citizens Theatre, an adaptation
of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, Anton Chekhov's The
Seagull, Aeschylus's Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound, and Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet. Prior to his graduation, in 2002 Heughan was one of
four students chosen to represent RSAMD at the BBC Carlton Hobbs radio
talent competition.
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