Sam West is one of the leading British actors of his generation and an acclaimed director, now Artistic Director of the Sheffield Theatres, where he succeeded Michael Grandage
His film credits include Leonard Bast in the Merchant Ivory film adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel Howards End (1992) opposite Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter and Anthony Hopkins and the young Maurice in Iris (2001). He has also been seen in films as diverse as Persuasion (1995), Notting Hill (1999) and Van Helsing (2004).
Sam West appears frequently on the stage, and has made a speciality of appearing in concert recitals: he performed the spoken lines from Shakespeare's Henry V, at the Last Night of the Proms in 2002. For the Royal Shakespeare Company he has appeared as both Hamlet and Richard II, and his television credits include Cambridge Spies (as Anthony Blount) and Die Nibelungen, Germany’s highest-rated mini-series in 2004.
As a director Sam West is increasingly active in the British theatre with productions not only at Sheffield but at Chichester, Bristol, and a recent new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte for the English National Opera.
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