Sam Underwood

Sam Underwood
Underwood at the 2014 Comic-Con International
Born	(1987-08-04) 4 August 1987 (age 29) Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Occupation	Actor

Sam Underwood (born 4 August 1987) is a British actor who portrayed the twins Luke and Mark Gray in The Following.

Underwood was born in Woking, Surrey and attended the Winston Churchill School. He trained at the Karen Clarke Theatre Group (now Summerscales Performing Arts), was taught by vocal coach Phil Wisdom and attended Songtime Theatre Arts.

He moved to the United States in October 2006 where he studied at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York. He graduated in February 2008.

He co-founded the Fundamental Theater Project in New York with Nicola Murphy in April 2010.

While appearing as Marchbanks in George Bernard Shaw's Candida at the Irish Repertory Theatre, New York, in April 2010, Underwood was asked to play the part of Alan Strang in a production of Equus at the John Drew Theatre, East Hampton, co-starring alongside Alec Baldwin.

In 2013, Underwood was cast in the eighth season of television series Dexter in the recurring role of Zach Hamilton, Dexter Morgan's "protégé". He subsequently joined the third season of Homeland as Leo Carras.

Since February 2014^[update] he has been portraying the twins Mark and Luke in the second season of The Following but after the death of Luke he only played Mark who had split identities in the third season of The Following.