Sam Witwer

Samuel Stewart Witwer is an American film and television actor born in Glenview, Illinois on October 20th, 1977. Witwer attended school at Glenbrook South High School in Glenview where he was involved in theater classes and music. Sam was the lead singer of a rock band called Love Plumber. After graduation, Witwer took drama classes at Juliard and eventually relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting.

Career
Sam Witwer's first work in the horror genre was playing a character named John Stoler in the "Shiny Happy People" episode of the WB Network television series Angel. The premise of the series focused on a brooding vampire played by David Boreanaz who struggled to maintain his humanity while simultaneously using his vampiric powers for good - a theme that Witwer would later revisit in future works.

His first work in a horror feature film was playing Private Jessup in the 2007 adaptation of Stephen King's The Mist. From 2008 to 2009 Sam was a credited character on season eight of the CW Network television series Smallville in which he played a character named Davis Bloome. Bloome was an EMT and a serial killer who tranformed into a giant alien monster known as Doomsday.

On June 28th, 2010 signed on to play the role of a vampire himself in the upcoming North American adaptation of the BBC television series Being Human. His character, Aidan McCollin, was a male nurse committed towards fighting against his vampiric bloodlust in an ongoing effort to maintain his humanity. The series premiered on Syfy in the US and on the Space Channel in Canada in January, 2011.