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as Sam Merlotte, the owner of the restaurant where Sookie works


Sam Trammell studied at Brown University and the University of Paris and has worked in theater, on Broadway, off-Broadway and in film and television.

Sam Trammell is an accomplished stage actor in New York whose credits include a Tony nominated performance in "Ah, Wilderness!" at Lincoln Center. Off-Broadway, including the feature "Dealer's Choice," "My Night with Reg", "if memory serves," "Ancestral Voices" and, more recently, "Kit Marlowe" at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, where he received comments pending.

Trammell films such as "Autumn in New York", "fight with alligators," will soon be versions of "Beat" and, more recently, an independent role in "Undermind."

On television, John Wells Trammell was in a "Trinity", while appearing in a recurring role in Barry Sonnenfeld "Maximum Bob."


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