Sam Crane (actor)

Sam Crane (born 1979) is an English actor. He attended Oxford University and LAMDA, where he won the Nicholas Hytner Award. He played Farinelli in Claire van Kampen's Farinelli and the King opposite Mark Rylance at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and reprised his role when the production transferred first to the Duke of York's Theatre and then to the Belasco Theatre on Broadway. He is also known for playing Winston Smith in Headlong's production of 1984 in the West End, Fred Walters in the BBC's six-part drama series Desperate Romantics and Frederick Abberline in Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Syndicate. In 2017 he played Patrick Plunket in an episode of the Netflix series The Crown. Since 13th October 2022 Sam has been playing the lead, Harry Potter, in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Palace Theatre, London.

Background
Crane is the son of 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.

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
 * Paddington, (1986, Hamilton Primary) as Jonathan Brown co-starring Peter Fletcher as Paddington Bear.
 * A Little Requiem for Kantor (ICA/ SESC São Paulo)
 * Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2022 Palace Theatre, London) as Harry Potter
 * Napoleon (2023), as Jacques-Louis David