Sam Huntington

Sam Huntington was born in Peterborough, New Hampshire on April 1, 1982. His father is a cabinet maker and owns his own buiness. His mother is an actress on stage and screen ("Knots Landing"). She also is a teacher, writer, and currently serves as Sam's manager. Sam began acting at the age of 9 under the direction of his actress mother as a part of her children's theater, The Black Box. Sam was also a part of Andy's Summer Playhouse in Wilton for 3 summers and performed at Franklin Pierce College in Rindge. His professional acting career begun at the celebrated Peterborough Players in Peterborough where he was cast in 4 major productions from 1991-1994, his favorite as "Jem" in To Kill a Mockingbird. Although Sam wanted to begin screen acting right away, his mother encouraged him to gain more experience. In 1995, Sam signed with the JM Bloom Agency in New York City. Sam and his mother moved to an apartment in that city for a year where Sam attended 7th grade at The Professional Children's School (here he became friends with Macauley Culkin). During this year, Sam was cast in three television commercials, a voice over for The Magic School Bus, aWindows 95 instructional video, the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of Harvest of Fire and in the Winona Ryder film, Boys (his part in that was subsequently edited out). Sam also signed a three movie contract with Disney; the first of these was in the key role of Mimi-Siku in the Disney hit comedy, Jungle 2 Jungle. Filming for that picture began in April 1996 and lasted about 3 months. It was filmed entirely on location in New York City, Pound Ridge NY and Canaima National Park in Venezuela. During this time, Sam was accompanied by his mother (and often his father and sister) and had a tutor who kept him up on his 8th gradestudies. Sam also had a guest appearence on the award winning television show, Law &Order in December 1997.