Sam Crane is an award-winning video artist and actor.

His films have been screened at contemporary art and film festivals worldwide. He won the Critics’ Choice award at Milan Machinima Festival, First Prize for Video Art at The Athens Digital Arts Festival and was longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize.

His production of Hamlet in GTA won The Stage Innovation Award 2023, and is the subject of a BFI supported documentary that he is co-directing with Pinny Grylls.

In a theatre career spanning twenty years he has been critically acclaimed for his performances at the National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, in The West End and on Broadway.

He is currently playing Harry Potter in the West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and can soon be seen as Jacques-Louis David in Ridley Scott’s forthcoming film Napoleon for Apple TV.

Sam is a PhD candidate at York University’s School of Arts and Creative Technologies and is a member of the PEERS programme of international artistic researchers at Zurich University of the Arts.