Sam Witwer

Samuel Stewart "Sam" Witwer (born October 20, 1977) is an american actor.

Early life
Known to his friends as "Stew", Witwer grew up in Glenview, Illinois, a small suburb town of Chicago. There, he attended Glenbrook South High School and became involved in theater as well as becoming the lead singer in a band called "Love Plumber". After receiving marks that were less than satisfactory, Witwer later attended the Juilliard School for drama stating that it was the only school that accepted him on the fact that they didn't look at his transcripts.

Career
Witwer's first on-screen credit was for a Chicago Bulls commercial. His first major role was Lt. Crashdown in science fiction show Battlestar Galactica. He also made an appearance on Dexter.

From 2008 to 2009, Witwer had been cast as Davis Bloome for the eighth season of Smallville. His character was a charming paramedic that doubles as the show's nacarnation of Doomsday. Although uncredited, he also portrayed Major Zod (a clone of General Zod) in the last scene of the Season eight finale episode while role of Major Zod would be portrayed by British actor Callum Blue for the duration of the show's ninth season.

Since 2011, Witwer has portrayed the lead vampire Aidan in the Syfy Channel's remake of the BBC original series Being Human.

Star Wars work
When Amy Beth Christenson's original concept art of Galen Marek looked strikingly like Witwer, the vice president at the time noted the resemblance due to recognizing Witwer for Battlestar Galactica so he was contacted to audition. From there, he became the complete basis for the main character's voice and appearance in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. His likeness was created through motion capture for the game to build the character's appearance and range of facial expressions. Witwer's performance was recorded on HD cameras (as were all the actors who worked on the game). While the game was in production, Witwer only knew his character as "Starkiller". Witwer also voiced Galen Marek in Soulcalibur IV in which he was known only as "The Apprentice".

Witwer returned to play Starkiller in the sequel Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. For this character, Witwer served in the same capacity as before by providing his voice and likeness to the main character.

Witwer also voiced Emperor Palpatine in The Force Unleashed and also gave his voice and likeness to the imperfect genetic replicas as well as the Dark Apprentice in The Force Unleashed II.

In the television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Witwer has voiced the Son, a physical incarnation of the dark side of the Force, in the third season and later hired to voice Darth Maul upon the character's return throughout the fourth and fifth seasons.

Behind the scenes
Witwer is also lead singer of the band The Crashtones. Witwer has also expressed an interest in being in the live-action TV series, presumably reprising his role as Galen Marek.

Star Wars voice work

 * Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
 * Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron
 * Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV series):

Non-canon

 * 2011 Brisk Tea commercial
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out