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Sam Crane (born 1979) is an English actor. He attended Oxford University and LAMDA, where he won the Nicholas Hytner Award for the best actor of his year.[1] He played Farinelli in Claire van Kampen's Farinelli and the King opposite Mark Rylance at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse[2] and reprised his role when the production transferred first to the Duke of York's Theatre[3] and then to the Belasco Theatre on Broadway.[4] He is also known for playing Winston Smith in Headlong's production of 1984 in the West End,[5] Fred Walters in the BBC's six-part drama series Desperate Romantics[6] and Frederick Abberline in Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Syndicate.[7] In 2017 he played Patrick Plunket in an episode of the Netflix series The Crown.[8]

Background

Crane is the son Richard Crane, a playwright, and theatre director Faynia Williams. He studied at Oxford University, and LAMDA. He is married to filmmaker Pinny Grylls and they have a young son and daughter.[9]

Selected credits

• The Crown (2017) as Patrick Plunket
• Farinelli and the King (2015-2018), Shakespeare's Globe, West End and Broadway)
• 1984 (2014, West End) as Winston Smith
• Eternal Love (2014, ETT) as Bernard of Clairvaux
• The Humans (2013, BAM New York) as Tophole
• The Christmas Candle (2013) as Thomas Haddington
• Father Brown "The Mayor and the Magician" (2013) as William Knight
• New Tricks "Old School Ties" (2012) as Oliver Lebbon
• Casualty "Place of Safety" (2011) as Jim
• Bedlam (2010, Shakespeare's Globe) as Laurence
• Henry IV Part I & II (2010, Shakespeare's Globe) as Hotspur and Pistol
• Desperate Romantics (2009, TV series) as Fred Walters
• ...some trace of her (2008, NT)
• The Odyssey (2008, National Theatre)
• DNA/ The Miracle (2008, NT) as Phil/ Mr Rodgers
• Kebab (2007, Royal Court Theatre) as Bogdan
• Othello (2007, Shakespeare's Globe) as Roderigo
• Ghosts (2007, Bristol Old Vic) as Oswald
• Carrie's War (2006-7, Lillian Bayliss Theatre) as Albert
• Midnight Cowboy (2006, Edinburgh Festival)
• The Pretenders (2006, radio)
• Silverland (2006, Arcola) as Mikey
• And Then There Were None (2005-6, Gielgud Theatre) as Anthony
• Major Barbara (2004, Royal Exchange Theatre)
• Rabbit (2003, UK tour) as Spin
• Midsomer Murders "Murder on St. Malley's Day" (2002, TV) as Daniel Talbot[10]
• A Little Requiem for Kantor (ICA/ SESC São Paulo)

References

External links

• Sam Crane at IMDb
• Interview^{[permanent dead link]} in The Oxford Mail
• Short profile from in New York Magazine
• The British Theatre Guide's review of Ghosts
• Michael Billington's review of Ghosts in The Guardian
• Brief encounter with Sam Crane in whatsonstage.com
• "Desperate Romantics"

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