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An intelligent, highly-capable actor, Sam Trammell made inroads on the New York stage while building an intriguing career in mostly independent features. The Virginia native attended Brown University where he gravitated to acting in his senior year. Trammell made his film debut as an intern at a tabloid TV talk show in the little-seen "The Hotel Manor" (1994) and kept busy with auditioned and day-player roles on daytime serials. He made his primetime debut with a featured role in the 1996 CBS/Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation "Harvest of Fire" and won some attention as a man who has an affair with the mother of a friend in "Childhood's End" (1996)....

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Filmography

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem - ( Tim / 2007 / Released / )
Undermind - ( / 2004 / Released / )
Autumn in New York - ( Simon / 2000 / Released / )
Beat - ( Lee / 2000 / Released / )
Fear of Fiction - ( Red Hopkins/Tom Hopkins / 2000 / Released / )
Followers - ( John Dietrich / 2000 / Released / )
Childhood's End - ( Greg Chute / 1997 / Released / )
The Hotel Manor Inn - ( Nolan / 1997 / Released / )
Wrestling With Alligators - ( Will / 1997 / Released / )

TV Credits
True Blood ( 2008 / Released ): Actor
TV Episode Sam Merlotte

TV Episode Sam Merlotte

TV Episode Sam Merlotte

Plaisir d'Amour ( 2008 )
TV Episode Sam Merlotte

TV Episode Sam Merlotte

What if God Were The Sun? ( 2007 / Released ): Actor
Dexter ( 2006 / Released ): Actor
Justice ( 2006 / Released ): Actor
Bones ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
Numb3rs ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
Anonymous Rex ( 2004 / Released ): Actor
CSI: New York ( 2004 / Released ): Actor
House ( 2004 / Released ): Actor
Cold Case ( 2003 / Released ): Actor
Going to California ( 2001 / Released ): Actor
Strong Medicine ( 2000 / Released ): Actor
Judging Amy ( 1999 / Released ): Actor
TV Episode Marty Levine

TV Episode Marty Levine

The Paper War ( 2005 )
TV Episode Marty Levine

Maximum Bob ( 1998 / Released ): Actor
Trinity ( 1998 / Released ): Actor
Harvest of Fire ( 1996 / Released ): Actor

Full Biography (Back to top)


An intelligent, highly-capable actor, Sam Trammell made inroads on the New York stage while building an intriguing career in mostly independent features. The Virginia native attended Brown University where he gravitated to acting in his senior year. Trammell made his film debut as an intern at a tabloid TV talk show in the little-seen "The Hotel Manor" (1994) and kept busy with auditioned and day-player roles on daytime serials. He made his primetime debut with a featured role in the 1996 CBS/Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation "Harvest of Fire" and won some attention as a man who has an affair with the mother of a friend in "Childhood's End" (1996). Returning to NYC, Trammell garnered attention and good reviews for a trio of stage performances. He was compulsive gambler in his Off-Broadway debut "Dealer's Choice", a gay man in "My Night With Reg" and earned a Tony nomination as the authorial stand-in in the Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's comedy "Ah, Wilderness!" in 1998. Within months of capturing NYC audiences, the actor reached a wider constituency as the fast-talking ex-con Sonny Dupree in the quirky ABC comedy-drama "Maximum Bob". Later that year, Trammell was briefly seen as the youngest son in a large Irish Catholic family in "Trinity" (NBC).

Trammell returned to the stage in 1999, playing the troubled offspring of an award-winning TV actress (essayed by Elizabeth Ashley) in the unsuccessful drama "If Memory Serves". 2000, though, proved a better year as the actor had a supporting role as a male hustler in the Sundance-screened "Beat", saw the release of "Followers", an affecting drama in which he played a would-be pledge to a fraternity who makes several decisions with tragic repercussions, and portrayed twins in the dramatic road movie "Fear of Fiction". Trammell rounded out the year garnering rave reviews for his turn as the title character's male lover in the Off-Broadway play "Kit Marlowe", about the Elizabethan playwright.


Profession(s):
Actor
Sometimes Credited As:

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Education
Brown University Providence, Rhode Island BA semiotics
University of Paris Paris, France philosophy
Awards (Back to top)

Clarence Derwent Award "Ah, Wilderness!" 1998
Theatre World Award "Ah, Wilderness!" 1998

Milestones (Back to top)

2001 Starred as one half of a male duo who are traveling the USA in search of a missing friend in the Showtime series "Going to California"
2000 Had supporting role as a male hustler accompanying William S Burroughs (Kiefer Sutherland) in the biographical drama "Beat"; screened at Sundance
2000 Appeared in dual role of twin brothers in the independent film "Fear of Fiction"
2000 Co-starred in the Off-Broadway play "Kit Marlowe" as Thomas Walsingham
1999 Acted opposite Elizabeth Ashley as the troubled son of a famous TV star in the unsuccessful Off-Broadway comedy "If Memory Serves"
1998 Won plaudits for his performance in the Lincoln Center revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness!"; also received Tony nomination as Featured Actor in a Play
1998 Had recurring role as ex-con Sonny Dupree on "Maximum Bob"
1998 Co-starred as Liam McCallister, the youngest in an Irish Catholic family, in the NBC drama series "Trinity"
1998 Starred as an impressionable college student whose desire to pledge at a fraternity forces him to choose between his dream and his friends in "Followers"; released theatrically in 2000
1997 NYC stage debut as a compulsive gambler in "Dealer's Choice"
1997 Appeared as one of group of gay friends in the Off-Broadway production of the London hit "My Night With Reg"
1996 Primetime TV debut in "Harvest of Fire", a CBS "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation
1996 Portrayed a young man who has an affair with the mother of a friend in "Childhood's End"
1994 Film acting debut in leading role of a naive intern at a tabloid TV talk show in the independent film "The Hotel Manor"
Raised in Fairfax, Virginia and Charleston, West Virginia
Worked as a day player on the daytime series "As the World Turns" and "One Life to Live"

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