Sam Witwer is an American screen actor and musician best known for his roles as the pilot Crashdown on the new
Battlestar Galactica and Davis Bloome/Doomsday in the 8th season of
Smallville. He has also made a number of other minor appearances on the shows
Dexter,
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,
Shark, and
Bones. Gamers would recognize him as both the voice and
look of Darth Vader's secret apprentice, Starkiller/Galen Marek, in the
Star Wars video game
The Force Unleashed (
he also voices Emperor Palpatine). He returns as Starkiller's clone in the sequel,
The Force Unleashed II.
Witwer is very much a geek at heart, being a huge gamer and an all around Star Wars nerd (making his job on
Unleashed a childhood dream come true). He had attended Juilliard School of Drama for a time but
according to his own website
"he got kicked out, [but] it was all good!" He has said in interviews that grades have never been his thing.
As of late, he seems to be the go to guy for
Villain Protagonists and
Anti-Heroes. Witwer likes to get inside the heads of his characters and bring out their sympathetic qualities along side their villainous ones, compelling the audience to root for them (or at least sympathize) no matter what
alignment they are at the time. And he can go from a nice normal guy to being scary as hell at a drop of a hat. Recently, Witwer has signed on to play the reformed vampire Aidan in
Being Human (Remake).
Apart from his acting career, he has his own metal rock band called
The Crashtones.
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