Son of actor David Troughton and Grandson of the second Doctor Who Patrick Troughton. 

Sam studied Drama at the University of Hull and after graduating he began his career with the RSC which brought three nominations for an Ian Charleston Award to his door. The award honours outstanding performances for young actors in classic plays. 

Since then he’s been part of some the most celebrated shows for both stage and screen including:

Theatre:

• Beginning, written by David Eldridge, National Theatre
• King Lear, Edmund, dir. Sam Mendes, National Theatre
• Juniper Blood, Donmar Warehouse
• Streetcar Named Desire, Liverpool Playhouse
• Multiple shows with the RSC - Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Winter’s Tale and many more. 

Film:

• Vera Drake, dir. Mike Leigh
• Alien vs Predator
• Mank, Netflix
• Napoleon with Joaquin Phoenix

TV:

• Black Doves, Netflix
• The Hollow Crown
• Robin Hood
• A Very Royal Scandal, starring Michael Sheen and Ruth Wilson 
• Chernobyl, HBO, created and written by Craig Mazin, directed by Johan Renck

Sam and I discuss his early work at the RSC, coming from a family of established actors and his roles in two huge shows A Very Royal Scandal and most notably Chernobyl. A superb, superb drama about the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant in Pripyat on 26th April 1986 and how the Soviet Union did everything in its power to cover up the facts. Sam talks about finding his character Aleksandr Akimov, the cost of the Soviet’s lies, and how catastrophic things like this one are possible in real life and not just in the movies. 

Thank you Sam!

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