Sam Buchanan

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.^[1][2]

He had a role as Fitzy in EastEnders in May and June 2021, until the character became a victim of knife crime.^[3][4] 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.^[2]

He had a role in 2022 video game Marvel's Midnight Suns.^[5] He had the role of Bash on 2023 video game Ten Dates.^[6] That year, he appeared as Billie's on/off boyfriend Nicky in Kat Sadler's British comedy drama series Such Brave Girls.^[7][8] He also appeared in Amazon Prime Video thriller series The Power.^[9]

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.^[10][11][12] He appeared in HBO series Get Millie Black.^[13] That year, he featured in the second series of BBC One drama series Sherwood as Nicky Branson.^[14]

In 2025, he appeared as Ronnie in the young adult romantic drama film My Fault: London.^[15] That year, he could be seen in a lead role in The Wayfinders, and launched his own independent production company, Silent Knight, alongside Issy Knopfler, with the first film from the company being a short film Day Release which is also Buchanans' directorial debut, written and co-directed by Lewis Jamison.^[16]