Background
Trammell was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Trammell was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
University of Paris; Brown University.
He is known for his role as Sam Merlotte on the Home Box Office vampire series True Blood, and has appeared in numerous films, television shows and television-movies. Trammell has worked in theater, Broadway, Office-Broadway, film, and television at Lincoln Center. Office-Broadway, he starred in Dealer"s Choice, My Night with Regional, If Memory Serves, and Ancestral Voices, as well as in Kit Marlowe at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, where he received outstanding reviews.
Trammell"s big break came when he landed the role of Sam Merlotte on the Home Box Office series True Blood.
In 2013, Trammell played Darrell Mackey in the drama film White Rabbit. Trammell played Hazel"s (Shailene Woodley) father, Michael Lancaster, in the 2014 film The Fault in Our Stars, based on the novel of the same name by John Green.