Editing Samuel West (section)

==Early life and education==
West was born on 19 June 1966<ref name="2005 Guardian profile">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/sep/16/arts.artsnews1|title=The Guardian profile: Sam West|last=Billington|author-link=Michael Billington (critic)|first=Michael|date=16 September 2005|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|location=UK|access-date=17 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.whatsonstage.com/west-end-theatre/news/12-2001/20-questions-withsamuel-west_28227.html |title=20 Questions With...Samuel West |date=10 December 2001 |publisher=What's On Stage |access-date=17 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701111110/http://www.whatsonstage.com/west-end-theatre/news/12-2001/20-questions-withsamuel-west_28227.html |archive-date=1 July 2015  }}</ref>  in [[Hammersmith]], [[London]],<ref name="Rachel Cooke interview">{{Cite news|first=Rachel|last=Cooke|author-link=Rachel Cooke|title=Best of the West: Rachel Cooke interviews actor Sam West|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2007/nov/25/rsc.theatre|newspaper=[[The Observer]]|location=UK|date=25 November 2007|access-date=6 June 2015}}</ref> the elder son of the actress [[Prunella Scales]] and the late actor [[Timothy West]], and the grandson of the actor [[Lockwood West]].<ref name="Paton"/>{{r|taylor20170303}} 

West was educated at [[Alleyn's School]]<ref>{{Cite news|first=Nick|last=Morrison|title=My best teacher – Sam West| url=https://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6016064| newspaper=[[TES (magazine)|TES]]| location=UK|date=26 June 2009|access-date=2 July 2015}}</ref> and [[Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford]], where he studied English literature<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/Alumni/Prominent-alumni.aspx|title=Prominent LMH Alumni| date=2015| access-date=10 June 2015| publisher=[[Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford]]}}</ref>{{r|taylor20170303}} and was president of the [[Experimental Theatre Club]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's Who 2013|publisher=A & C Black Publishers Ltd|page=2420|isbn=978-14081-549-1-5|edition=165th|title-link=Who's Who (UK)|date=1 February 2013}}</ref> West originally intended to attend [[Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art]], but chose instead to focus on his career after he was cast as [[Prince Caspian (character)|King Caspian]] in the BBC's 1989 series ''[[Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989 TV serial)|The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Talking Beasts: The Narnia Podcast |url=https://www.narniaweb.com/2021/10/ben-barnes-meets-samuel-west-two-caspians-talking-beasts/ |version = Two Caspians|publisher=Narnia Web |language=English |date=16 October 2021}}</ref>