Sam Trammell (born January 29, 1969) is an American actor, known for his role as

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on the HBO fantasy drama series ''

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''. He was nominated for the

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for his performance as Richard Miller in ''

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Career

Trammell has worked in theater,

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, film, and television. His stage credits include a Tony Award-nominated performance in ''

'' at

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. Off-Broadway, he starred in ''

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'', '' My Night with Reg'', ''If Memory Serves'', and ''Ancestral Voices'', as well as in '' Kit Marlowe'' at the Joseph Papp Public Theater. Trammell's big break came when he landed the role of

on the HBO series ''

''. In 2013, he played Darrell Mackey in the drama film ''

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''. He played Hazel ( Shailene Woodley)'s father, Michael Lancaster, in the 2014 film '' The Fault in Our Stars'', based on the novel of the same name by

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. In 2019, Trammell starred in the

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series, '' The Order''.

Personal life

Trammell was born in

New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

, Louisiana, and was raised in

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. He attended

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

, graduating in 1991. Trammell met actress Missy Yager in 2003 while performing theatre in New York City. The couple's twin sons were born in August 2011.

Awards

For his work on HBO's ''

'', Trammell was nominated for: *Breakout Performance – Male at the

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* Best Supporting Actor at the

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."Scream 2009 Breakout Performance - Male"
Retrieved on 2009-09-04. *Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series at the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

Filmography

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Trammell, Sam 1969 births Living people 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors American male film actors American male stage actors American male television actors Brown University alumni George Washington High School (Charleston, West Virginia) alumni Male actors from New Orleans Male actors from West Virginia Actors from Charleston, West Virginia Theatre World Award winners University of Paris alumni