Birth information15 May 1971, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA BioAn intelligent, highly-capable actor, Sam Trammell made inroads on the New York stage while building an intriguing career in mostly independent features. The West Virginia native attended Brown University where he gravitated to acting in his senior year. Trammell made his film debut as an intern at a tabloid TV talk show in the little-seen "The Hotel Manor" (1994) and kept busy with auditioned and day-player roles on daytime serials. He made his primetime debut with a featured role in the 1996 CBS/Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation "Harvest of Fire" and won some attention as a man who has an affair with the mother of a friend in "Childhood's End" (1996). Returning to NYC, Trammell garnered attention and good reviews for a trio of stage performances. He was compulsive gambler in his Off-Broadway debut "Dealer's Choice", a gay man in "My Night With Reg" and earned a Tony nomination as the authorial stand-in in the Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's comedy "Ah, Wilderness!" in 1998. Within months of capturing NYC audiences, the actor reached a wider constituency as the fast-talking ex-con Sonny Dupree in the quirky ABC comedy-drama "Maximum Bob". Later that year, Trammell was briefly seen as the youngest son in a large Irish Catholic family in "Trinity" (NBC). Trammell returned to the stage in 1999, playing the troubled offspring of an award-winning TV actress (essayed by Elizabeth Ashley) in the unsuccessful drama "If Memory Serves". 2000, though, proved a better year as the actor had a supporting role as a male hustler in the Sundance-screened "Beat", saw the release of "Followers", an affecting drama in which he played a would-be pledge to a fraternity who makes several decisions with tragic repercussions, and portrayed twins in the dramatic road movie "Fear of Fiction". Trammell rounded out the year garnering rave reviews for his turn as the title character's male lover in the Off-Broadway play "Kit Marlowe", about the Elizabethan playwright.

Vampires will be well represented at this year's Spike's TV 'Scream 2009'. The cast of True Blood - Stephen Moyer, Anna Paquin, Alexander Skarsgård, and Sam Trammell - as well as the show's creator, Alan Ball, will be in attendance at the event. Twilight cast members will also be on hand at the 4th annual award show honoring sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and comic book movies and TV shows. The event will also premiere new footage from the second Twilight film, New Moon.
Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire will present a tribute to comic book legend Stan Lee who'll be receiving the Comic-Con Icon Award. George Romero, the "godfather of the modern horror film," will pick up this year's Scream Mastermind Award. According to Spike TV's press statement, the Scream Mastermind Award is "presented to a filmmaker whose unique vision of horror, science fiction and/or fantasy is both critically-acclaimed and culturally significant. »

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Sam Trammell was up for a Breakthrough Performance award for his role as Sam Merlotte, the shapeshifting bar owner in HBO's super sexy series True Blood, at Spike TV's Scream 2009. Trammell didn't walk away with that award - he lost out to Twilight's Taylor Lautner (it's never a good idea to go against a Twilight star when online votes gauge the winner) - but the True Blood cast did wind up with three acting honors as well as the best TV show trophy. Alexander Skarsgard was voted Best Villain (really? villain? I don't see Eric Northman as a villain) and real-life couple Stephen Moyer and Oscar-winner Anna Paquin picked up Best Actor and Actress in a Horror TV Show wins. Moyer took to the stage to pick up his award while leaning on a cane, the result of tearing his meniscus while playing with his kids.
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'The audacity of vampire baseball is enough to draw me in,' singer says of inspiration for bloody bandmates.
By Andrew Ross Rowe, with reporting by Kameron Zach

"True Blood's" Sam Trammell and Har Mar Superstar
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New York — If you had the pleasure of catching Har Mar Superstar on Tuesday night's "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," you might have noticed something missing from the performance: his signature bare chest and thighs.

"A lot of times when I do television appearances, the producers would ask me to get down to the underwear," said Sean Tillman, the man behind the glitz and glamour. "We want the balls on TV! We want everyone to know what drew us to you."
But the charismatic crooner kept his clothes on while performing "Tall Boy," the lead single from his new album Dark Touches.
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