Sam Phillips was born in London on May 31st 1984, son of television director Nic Phillips. He studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and since graduating has appeared on stage as the accused school-teacher in ‘Inherit the Wind’, directed by Trevor Nunn at the Old Vic, in ‘Much Ado About Nothing, as Claudio, at Shakespeare’s Globe and in the National Theatre’s tour of Alan Bennett’s ‘The History Boys’. He was also part of the quintet of players in the Glasgow Citizen’s Theatre production of Eugene O’Neill’s mammoth ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ as tormented younger son Jamie. However to many younger television viewers he may well be best remembered as another Jamie, arguably the only sensible staff member in the children’s sitcom ‘Hotel Trubble’. Sam is also a passionate supporter of Cancer Research, in the light of his father having once been a cancer sufferer.