Sam Witwer

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He attended Glenbrook South High School, during which time he was involved in drama and theater classes, as well as being the lead singer of a high school band called "Love Plumber". After barely graduating high school, his parents made him apply to drama departments of various schools, until he was finally accepted to the Juilliard School. When he was 18 he became friends with fellow actor Glenn Howerton.

After two years at Juilliard School, Witwer was expelled due to his behaviour. He finally made the decision to pursue acting after asking actor Bruce Campbell for advice on the AOL website.

Witwer's first major recurring role came in the form of portraying raptor pilot Alex Quartararo (his call sign) on Battlestar Galactica, although he has credited much of his current success to his role as Neil Perry on the Showtime series Dexter. Witwer also appeared as Private Wayne Jessup in the film The Mist.

From 2008 to 2009, Witwer appeared in season 8 of Smallville as Davis Bloome, the human form of Doomsday. Witwer played Davis while Doomsday was played by stuntman Dario Delacio. Witwer's performance in Smallville was well-received, and he has stated that his experience on the show had opened more opportunities for him in the future of acting. Witwer's contract gave him the option to return in season 9 as General Zod, though he ultimately declined. Though he considered his time on the show enjoyable and was flattered by the offer to stay on, he passed on the role as he felt it would be difficult for both the characters and audience to accept.

Witwer made a cameo appearance in The Walking Dead as a dead zombie soldier in a tank in the season 1 episode "Days Gone Bye" which reunited him with director Frank Darabont from The Mist. Coincidentally, in 2019 he went on to portray the main protagonist (both voice and motion capture) of a video game called Days Gone, which also tackles the topic of zombie apocalypse.

From 2011 to 2014, Witwer starred in the North American remake of Being Human. He played the lead role of vampire Aidan Waite. The show, as well as his performance, was well received and lasted 4 seasons.

He voiced Ocean Master in the animated film for the DC Universe Animated Original Movies series, replacing fellow Star Wars actor Steve Blum from .

In 2016, Witwer played Edward Hyde on Once Upon a Time, recurring for part of its sixth season after debuting at the end of the fifth season.

In 2018, Witwer joined the main cast of The CW drama series Supergirl, portraying the fourth season's main antagonist Agent Liberty.

Sam appeared in episode 19 of Geek and Sundry's Tabletop playing the Dragon Age role-playing game, and episodes 29 and 55 of Dice Camera Action as Mordenkainen.

In January 2017, he appeared as a guest on a play-through of ScratchPad Publishing's Dusk City Outlaws, alongside Elisa Teague, Tom Lommel, Spencer Crittenden, and game designer Rodney Thompson.

For , Witwer had also vocally performed the Son in a three episode story arc (known as the Mortis trilogy) in season 3 as well as the iconic former Sith Darth Maul in the season 4 finale episodes, four episodes of season 5, and the "Siege of Mandalore" arc in season 7. He also lent his voice for Maul in other projects such as the Star Wars: Episode I Brisk commercial as well as the Cartoon Network special , and again for Star Wars Rebels. On September 27, 2012, a feature-length "director's cut" of Witwer's season 4 finale episodes of The Clone Wars were released as a direct-to-video film, Darth Maul Returns, initially made available exclusively at Target.

Witwer attended The Clone Wars season 5 Red Carpet Premiere in Orlando, Florida on August 24, 2012, during Celebration VI along with some of his co-stars Matt Lanter, James Arnold Taylor, Dee Bradley Baker, Tom Kane, Daniel Logan, Stephen Stanton and Ashley Eckstein, as well as Supervising Director Dave Filoni. During Celebration VI, he also had his own panel called: Sam Witwer "The Maul Within" on August 26, 2012. In 2013, he attended for the first time the annual event, Star Wars Weekends at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Florida for a three-day weekend and fans praised him for his roles in The Force Unleashed games and on The Clone Wars. During the live show "Behind the Force", Sam showed his acting skills by saying one or two lines of the characters that he's played in the Star Wars universe.

Witwer has also voiced an alien as well as a First Order stormtrooper during the siege of Maz Kanata's palace in .

In 2018, Witwer reprised his portrayal as Maul and performed the voice acting role for the character in , marking the sixth project for which Witwer voices Maul, and the first live-action performance.

In 2020, Witwer was cast as an unidentified dark side character in the StarWarsKids.com and YouTube game show , which premiered on June 3, 2020.

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