Sam Buchanan

Acting

Sam Buchanan

Born 1997-06-21 · Kent, England

Sam Buchanan is an English television and film actor. His television roles include Such Brave Girls (2023). His film roles include Back to Black (2024) and My Fault: London (2025). He is from Kent. He left college with a Performing Arts BTEC and then graduated with a BA from the ArtsEd Acting program in 2019. He had a role as Fitzy in EastEnders in May and June 2021, until the character became a victim of knife crime. He had a part in a not-for-profit verbatim production of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, called Value Engineering which was filmed and broadcast on Channel 4 with the title Grenfell. He had a role in 2022 video game Marvel's Midnight Suns. He had the role of Bash on 2023 video game Ten Dates. That year, he appeared as Billie's on/off boyfriend Nicky in Kat Sadler's British comedy drama series Such Brave Girls. He also appeared in Amazon Prime Video thriller series The Power. In 2024, he could be seen as Nick Shymansky in the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, the singer's early manager when she released her debut album, and a character who encouraged her to go to rehab. He appeared in HBO series Get Millie Black. That year, he featured in the second series of BBC One drama series Sherwood as Nicky Branson. In 2025, he appeared as Ronnie in the young adult romantic drama film My Fault: London

Acting credits

Your Fault: London poster
7.5

Nick and Noah are both embarking on life-changing adventures that are threatening to pull them apart—Nick in business with his father and Noah starting a fresh chapter at Oxford University. Now living separate lives, and meeting new people, they find themselves entangled in temptations, rivalries, and betrayals and their bond is tested like never before. As secrets unravel and temptation rises, they must fight to hold onto each other—or risk losing everything.

Your Fault: London

2026

My Fault: London poster
7.4

18-year-old Noah moves from America to London, with her mother who's recently fallen in love with William, a wealthy British businessman. Noah meets William’s son, bad-boy Nick, and soon discovers there is an attraction between them neither can avoid. As Noah spends the summer adjusting to her new life, her devastating past will catch up with her while falling in love for the first time.

My Fault: London

2025

Back to Black poster
6.7

The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the iconic artist and the tumultuous love story at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time.

Back to Black

2024

Every Time I See A Yellow Car poster
NR

Olly, a man haunted by a childhood tragedy and a recent assault, and his older brother Liam, who desperately attempts to protect Olly, find themselves in a spiral of revenge and chaos. Whilst their seemingly clashing personalities should make them anything but friends, the pair both aim to break a cycle of trauma, but in contradictory ways.

Every Time I See A Yellow Car

2026

Scrapper poster
6.6

A resourceful 12-year-old, who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London, makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. But when her estranged father turns up out of the blue, she's forced to confront reality.

Scrapper

2023

Clarity poster
5.5

A story of obsession, power, and discovery centering around a maverick neuroscientist, her doting pupil, and an alluring machine that could revolutionize brain science.

Clarity

2016

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NR

As Jaz and Charlie make a final attempt to keep their relationship alive, one of them comes out as non-binary, sparking a conversation that will change them both forever.

Just Me

2020

Grenfell: Scenes from the Inquiry poster
NR

Grenfell sets out to discover why the devastating fire of 14 June 2017 happened after the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower, and who was responsible for the deaths of 72 people.

Grenfell: Scenes from the Inquiry

2022