In case you are unfamiliar with who I am, my name is Sam Coleman and I have many hats. Not hats in the fabric, physical sense but in terms of my interests and activities. Besides, with the size of my bulbous noggin, you'd seldom find a helmet large enough.
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By trade, I am an actor and - if I dare categories myself in this way - a creative. This has been the main career pursuit of mine since about the age of 15 when I realised that taking over from Tony Robinson as the presenter of Time Team was an unrealistic and mightily specific career goal. Thus far, this career has served me well and I have been fortunate in the job opportunities I have been able to pursue on account of my doing the right thing in the right place at the right time on several fortuitous occasions.
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Most notably, as of writing this, I was fortunate to be cast as Young Hodor in HBO's hit show Game of Thrones - the one with all the dragons and partial nudity. I've also been in films such as Leatherface, Lords of Chaos and a whole litany of other projects.
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I'm also a relatively inexperienced but much researched mentalist which, for the uninitiated, is essentially a magician without the flashy props and a lot more temple touching. I was once described as a 'pound shop Derren Brown' and, you know what? I'll take it!
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Along with my acting work and broader 'creative' exploits, I also have other means of sustaining a living including teaching both acting and film production at various external performing arts groups in my local area.
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As of May 2019, I am also an elected representative for my village, Sidley, on Rother District Council. I stood following several years of socio-political campaigning in and around my area whereby the main roadblock to achieving things was often at the feet of the local councils. I figured, if you can't go over it, you can't go under it and you can't go around it, you have to go through it!
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I have had no previous desire to run for any office and to this day, I have no political ambitions career-wise however a large part of my ethos on life centres around helping others. I don't wish to sound cheesy and wishy-washy here, but having grown up caring for two disabled family members and witnessing widespread
deprivation in my local area, I have from a young age been socially and politically aware.
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If I achieve nothing in my short existence but relative social change, I will be happy.
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I belong to several socio-political organisations including Humanists UK, the Vegan Society,
Equity the union (where I sit as a member of the Young Members Committee), Momentum
and the Labour Party with whom I was elected. There are other organisations I belong to but
I wish to sit here listing them as little as you wish to sit here reading them so I shall continue.
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I consider myself a socialist, a humanist, a feminist, an environmentalist,
a disestablishmentarian, a vegan and a pacifist as well as multiple other
categorisations but more than anything, I consider myself to be compassionate.
And, whilst that is a more than fallible trait, I do try my upmost to pursue every
decision with compassion in mind.
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Now that the mushy bit is out of the way, I'd like to finish this grandiose
self-assessment by saying: thank you for reading all of this - people seldom
stick to a website for more than 30 seconds these days!
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