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![](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292080009-KEN8ASF0H2685CXCF6YF/jjj_flaunt-1.jpg) **BURBERRY** _coat_. ![](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292080135-GAPGV3KAKBH0FBLVTXY3/jjj_flaunt-4.jpg) **SANDRO** _jacket and_ **PRADA** _shirt_. ![](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292060219-55SNDUEZ2VO1F90ZB0FQ/Sam_Claffin_0.4.jpg.jpg?format=original) **RAG** **&** **BONE** _jacket and top._  ![](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292060711-R8MRPL0J53ZSE48FYP2G/Sam_Claffin_0.5.jpg.jpg?format=original) **PAUL SMITH** _coat,_ **RAG & BONE** _top, and_ **J. LINDEBERG** _jeans_. ![](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292104433-RTA3EI9B4NN5PHXM676V/Sam_Claffin_01tif.jpg) **PAUL** **SMITH** _jacket and top._ ![](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292060979-WI97U9M463SXPYBFJ0HF/Sam_Claffin_02.jpg) **RAG & BONE** _jacket and top_, **SANDRO** _trousers_, _and_ **PAUL SMITH** _belt_. [](#)[](#) Sam Claflin “The second I saw Sam onscreen he felt like an old time movie star—handsome, rakish, capable of kicking down doors. He has a twinkle in his eye like Paul Newman or Errol Flynn.” – Director Henry-Alex Rubin, _Robin Friday_ As a child, British actor Sam Claflin_\[11\]_ dreamt of playing professional soccer. But life’s jukes took him another direction—after shattering one of his ankles in a friendly match, he opted to pursue acting. Six years later, having graduated from London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he started putting casting directors on their heels, ambitious and on side of Hollywood stardom. Active since 2010, the magnetic Claflin landed lead parts in big-screen fantasy adventures as Philip, the Mermaid-lovestruck missionary, in _Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides_ (2011); as William, Kristen Stewart’s kidnapper-turned-Prince-Charming, in _Snow White and the Huntsman_ (2012); and as trident-and-woven-net-wielding Finnick Odair in the final three installments of _The Hunger Games_ franchise. As they say in CALIFUK, so you believe, so you see—Claflin will portray working class soccer star Robin Friday in the cult hero’s eponymous biopic, currently in production. And if you’re dropping quid on outcomes, keep tabs on this charismatic bloke—reports say that when he first met actress Laura Haddock, he immediately told his agent, “That’s the girl I’m gonna marry.” The couple married in a private ceremony in 2013. He shoots he—ah, never mind. #### _11 Born 27 June 1986_  _\[a\]_ #### _11.a “Almost everyone around them is brutal, half-insane or completely amoral.”\[i\]_ #### _11.i From: “Movie Review: Going Full Bore In Ruthless”_ _\[\*\]_ #### _by Michael Wilmington |_ Los Angeles Times _| 27 June 1986_  _\*Starring Danny DeVito and Bette Midler as “nefarious bon bons,”_ Ruthless _(1986) earned comparison to a Billy Wilder teleplay with the unexpected juxtaposition of empathetic kidnappers and vicious victims. But the ending just wasn’t “ruthless enough” for the_ Times_._ #### _Photographer_: Jesse John Jenkins for Patriciamcmahon.com. #### _Fashion Editor_: Rose Forde at Roseforde.com. #### _Groomer_: Shukeel Murtaza at Shukeelmurtaza.co.uk. #### _Executive Producer_: Jane Everett for Pranaproduction.co.uk. _Styling Assistants_: Laurie Lederman and Elettra Simos.