Sam Heughan 42 years old as of 2022.

Heughan celebrates his birthday every April 30. He was born on April 30, 1980, in New Galloway, United Kingdom.

The Scottish actor, producer, author, and entrepreneur Sam Heughan gained worldwide recognition for starring as Jamie Fraser in the Starz 2014 drama series Outlander.

Heughan was educated at James Gillespie’s High School for a year and Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner School until the end of the sixth year.

Following his sixth year, he attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama currently known as the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, where he graduated in 2003.

While studying at RSAMD, Heughan performed in several plays including The Twits at Citizens Theatre, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, Aeschylus’s Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound, and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Heughan got his first television role in the miniseries Island at War, a WWII drama about the German occupation of the Channel Islands in 2004.

In his professional career, Sam Heughan has received 21 nominations which he won 9 out of them.