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 Samuel West
One of Samuel's biggest roles was his BAFTA nominated performance in the Merchant Ivory film Howard's End. His long and distinguished career on stage and screen has earned him credits in Cambridge Spies, Waking the Dead, Notting Hill, and Iris, among others.
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Samuel made his name in Howard's End, but he's also appeared in other films including Iris (with Kate Winslet and Dame Judi Dench) and Notting Hill (with Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant).
His theatre career has been huge and varied. From appearing in The Sea at the National (directed by Sam Mendes, who went on to win an Oscar for his film American Beauty) to Hamlet at the RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) - Sam's worked on prestigious projects with the biggest names in British theatre.
Television credits are also vast. They include Hornblower, As Time Goes By, The Vacillations of Poppy Carew, Persuasion, and Longitude.
A regular on radio drama and poetry, you will have heard Samuel's dulcet tones in Vanity Fair, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Poetry Please, Enigma, Steve Berkoff's Macbeth, Richard II, The Merchant of Venice.
He's also narrated TV programmes such as The Nazis: A Warning From History and Battle Of The Sexes: In The Animal World, as well as providing voice-overs for the landmark BBC series A History Of Britain.
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Samuel's the son of revered British actors Timothy West CBE and Prunella Scales (best known as Sybil in Fawlty Towers).
Samuel studied Physics, then English, at Oxford University. There he was president of the University Experimental Theatre Club.
He toured Africa in 1986 as part of the Oxford University Dramatic Society.
He's a Wimbledon Football Club supporter and enjoys photography and poker.
Apparently, Samuel's proudest moment was starring in Dimensions In Time, a Children In Need special of Doctor Who, and (until the planned new series airs in 2005) the last episode of the long-running sci-fi drama made solely by the BBC.
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| Personal Details |
| Samuel was born in June 1966. He has a half-sister Juliet and a brother Joe.
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