- published: 22 May 2016
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Samuel George "Sam" Claflin (born 27 June 1986) is an English actor, best known for his role in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides And playing Prince William in Snow White and the Huntsman.
Claflin was born in Ipswich, Suffolk. His father is an accountant/financial manager and his mother is a classroom assistant at Ormiston Victory Academy. In 2010, Claflin appeared on the television series The Pillars of the Earth and Any Human Heart. In April 2010, he was cast as Phillip Swift in the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, titled Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides which was released on 20 May 2011. In March 2011, he was cast as Thomas in The Seventh Son, a film adaptation of The Spook's Apprentice, but dropped out for unknown reasons and was replaced by Ben Barnes. In April 2011, he portrayed the role of footballer Duncan Edwards in the BBC TV drama United, which was centred around the events of the 1958 Munich air disaster, in which Edwards was fatally injured.