Sam Trammell: Back Home

Sam Trammell is having fun playing Sam Merlotte on True Blood. “When I first got this project, it was Alan Ball and HBO — I wanted to do it and I hadn’t even read it.” It’s been a rocket ride straight to the top of HBO’s charts, and Sam is enjoying the ride. Things are especially great when he gets a chance to go back to his roots for some filming. Trammell talks about it with New Orleans Television writer, Dave Walker.

Sam Trammell, who plays the Sookie-struck roadhouse owner Sam Merlotte on the saucy vampire drama (Sunday, 8 p.m.), traversed that route via West Virginia, Brown University, the New York stage, prime-time TV and feature films. Born at Ochsner Medical Center in 1971 while his father was in medical school at Tulane University (both his mother and father earlier attended LSU), Trammell bounced around with his family early on but they landed long enough on Maryland Avenue for him to compile glowing childhood memories. (Continue reading.)

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