James Hooton (born 13th July 1973 in Carlton, Nottinghamshire) is an English actor who has portrayed Sam Dingle in Emmerdale since February 1995.
He started his career with the Carlton Junior Television Workshop. In 1985, at the age of twelve, he made his television debut in the children's TV series Your Mother Wouldn't Like It. He has also appeared in several other programmes, including Peak Practice, The Bill, Heartbeat and Touching Evil. He also appeared in British director Shane Meadows' first feature film, Twenty Four Seven, where he played the character 'Wolfman' Knighty. In 2012, he returned to the stage after an absence of fifteen years to star in Our Style is Legendary, a play about Nottingham in the 1980s.
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