Sam Buchanan
Birthday: Born in 1997-06-21 in Kent, England
Deathday: Alive
Sam Buchanan is an English television and film actor. His television roles include Such Brave Girls (2023). His film roles include Back to Black (2024) and My Fault: London (2025). He is from Kent. He left college with a Performing Arts BTEC and then graduated with a BA from the ArtsEd Acting program in 2019. He had a role as Fitzy in EastEnders in May and June 2021, until the character became a victim of knife crime. He had a part in a not-for-profit verbatim production of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, called Value Engineering which was filmed and broadcast on Channel 4 with the title Grenfell. He had a role in 2022 video game Marvel's Midnight Suns. He had the role of Bash on 2023 video game Ten Dates. That year, he appeared as Billie's on/off boyfriend Nicky in Kat Sadler's British comedy drama series Such Brave Girls. He also appeared in Amazon Prime Video thriller series The Power. In 2024, he could be seen as Nick Shymansky in the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, the singer's early manager when she released her debut album, and a character who encouraged her to go to rehab. He appeared in HBO series Get Millie Black. That year, he featured in the second series of BBC One drama series Sherwood as Nicky Branson. In 2025, he appeared as Ronnie in the young adult romantic drama film My Fault: London
TV Credits
Such Brave Girls
Character: Nicky
Sisters Josie and Billie and their single mother Deb navigate life armed with nothing but poor judgement and self-esteem exclusively tied to people who couldn't care less about them. They're vain, selfish, heavily in debt, pathologically desperate for affection and bursting with misplaced, terrifying love....
Mood
Character: Damien Yapz
Sasha, a 25-year-old wannabe singer and rapper thrown out of home, but right now she’s a bedroom artist spending her days smoking weed, stalking her ex-boyfriend on social media and avoiding her family....
The Power
Character: Terry Monke
The world of The Power is our world, but for one twist of nature. Suddenly teenage girls develop the power to electrocute people at will. Following remarkable characters from London to Seattle, Nigeria to Eastern Europe, the Power evolves from a tingle in teenagers’ collarbones to a complete reversal of power balance....
Sherwood
Character: Nicky Branson
Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured Nottinghamshire mining community. Powerful drama with Lesley Manville and David Morrissey....
The Wayfinders
Character: Kavan
Follows three high schoolers mistakenly transported to a brutal medieval world. Falling in with unlikely comrades caught in a civil war, the teens fight for survival as they search for a way back home....
Just Act Normal
Character: Dr. Feelgood
Three stubbornly optimistic siblings have a dark secret. When their mum disappears, they will do anything to keep it quiet so they can stay together as a family, but – as feistily resilient and fiercely loyal as they are - can they really outwit the authorities and carry on with life under the radar?...
Movie Credits
Grenfell: Scenes from the Inquiry
Character: Ben Bailey
Grenfell sets out to discover why the devastating fire of 14 June 2017 happened after the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower, and who was responsible for the deaths of 72 people....
Scrapper
Character: Henry
A resourceful 12-year-old, who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London, makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. But when her estranged father turns up out of the blue, she's forced to confront reality....
Back to Black
Character: Nick Shymansky
The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the iconic artist and the tumultuous love story at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time....
My Fault: London
Character: Ronnie
18-year-old Noah moves from America to London, with her mother who's recently fallen in love with William, a wealthy British businessman. Noah meets William’s son, bad-boy Nick, and soon discovers there is an attraction between them neither can avoid. As Noah spends the summer adjusting to her new life, her devastating past will catch up with her while falling in love for the first time....
Clarity
Character: Samantha
A story of obsession, power, and discovery centering around a maverick neuroscientist, her doting pupil, and an alluring machine that could revolutionize brain science....