Samuel Henry J. "Sam" Worthington (born 2 August 1976) is an award-winning Australian actor known to movie audiences as Marcus Wright in the 2009 film Terminator Salvation. He plays Jake Sully in Avatar and is set to play Perseus in the 2010 feature film remake of Clash of the Titans.
Worthington was born in Godalming, Surrey, England and moved to Perth, Western Australia during his childhood. He grew up in Warnbro, a suburb of Rockingham. His fa...
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Samuel Henry J. "Sam" Worthington (born 2 August 1976) is an award-winning Australian actor known to movie audiences as Marcus Wright in the 2009 film Terminator Salvation. He plays Jake Sully in Avatar and is set to play Perseus in the 2010 feature film remake of Clash of the Titans.
Worthington was born in Godalming, Surrey, England and moved to Perth, Western Australia during his childhood. He grew up in Warnbro, a suburb of Rockingham. His father, Ronald, was a power plant employee while his mother, a homemaker, raised him and his sister. He dropped out of school at 17 and worked construction and odd jobs, eventually settling in Sydney. He was 19 and working as a bricklayer when he auditioned for the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and was accepted, with scholarship.
After graduating from NIDA in 1998, Worthington performed in a production of David Hare's play The Judas Kiss for Company B at the Belvoir St Theatre.
He went on to act in a series of Australian movies and...
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