Sam Heughan

Birthday: 30 April 1980, New Galloway, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK

Height: 189 cm

Sam Heughan was born April 30, 1980 in New Galloway, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. An accomplished stage and screen actor best known for Outlander (2014), A Princess for Christmas (2011), and A Very British Sex Scandal (2007). He is an active patron of Youth Theatre Arts Scotland and Leukemia and Lymphoma Research. He attended the Royal Scottish... Show more »

Working on 'Outlander' has been a delight, it really has. I had kind of forgotten what Scotland was ...Show more »

Working on 'Outlander' has been a delight, it really has. I had kind of forgotten what Scotland was like, and I'd turned into a bit of a Londoner. Show less «

I actually got an initial sense of how big 'Outlander' was going to be on Twitter. We're all on ther...Show more »

I actually got an initial sense of how big 'Outlander' was going to be on Twitter. We're all on there to help promote the show and also interact with the fans. Show less «

I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.

I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the g...Show more »

I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce. Show less «

People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast ...Show more »

People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think! Show less «

My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be Engl...Show more »

My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English. Show less «

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.

There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I...Show more »

There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that. Show less «

I'm obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I'd love to go to space...Show more »

I'm obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I'd love to go to space. Show less «

I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.

You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but su...Show more »

You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that. Show less «

I auditioned for 'Game of Thrones' seven times! Loads of times.

I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all abou...Show more »

I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater. Show less «