Biography
Samuel Henry John Worthington (born 2 August 1976) is an Australian actor. He is known for playing Jake Sully in the Avatar franchise (2009–present), Marcus Wright in Terminator Salvation (2009), and Perseus in Clash of the Titans (2010) and its sequel Wrath of the Titans (2012). He has taken other dramatic roles, appearing in The Debt (2010), Everest (2015), Hacksaw Ridge (2016), The Shack (2017), Manhunt (2017), and Fractured (2019). He has received Australia's highest film award three times ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Avatar 5
2031
as Jake Sully
The fifth installment of the Avatar franchise.

Avatar 4
2029
as Jake Sully
The fourth installment of the Avatar franchise.

Zero A.D.
2025
as Antipater
Before kings and empires feared him, a tyrant sought to erase him. A newborn child ignites a prophetic war. A ruthless prince seeks to crush the proph...

Avatar: Fire and Ash
2025
as Jake Sully
In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash Peop...

Relay
2025
Tom, a world class “fixer”, specializes in brokering lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten their ruin. He ke...

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
2024
as First Lt. Trent Gephardt
Explore the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Spanning 15 years before, during, and followi...

The Killer
2024
as Finn
Zee is a feared contract killer known as "the Queen of the Dead," but when she refuses to murder a young blind woman, she finds herself hunted both by...

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
2024
as Trent Gephart
In 1859, families discover the lure of the Old West as they settle in territories from Wyoming to Kansas. Meanwhile, a gruff cowboy soon finds himself...

The Exorcism
2024
as Joe
A troubled actor begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror film, leading his estranged daughter to wonder if he's slipping back into his ...

Breathe
2024
as Lucas
Air-supply is scarce in the near future, forcing a mother and daughter to fight for survival when two strangers arrive desperate for an oxygenated hav...

Lift
2024
as Dennis Huxley
An international heist crew, led by Cyrus Whitaker, race to lift $500 million in gold from a passenger plane at 40,000 feet.

Simulant
2023
as Kessler
Faye attempts to replace her newly deceased husband, Evan, with an android simulant (SIM). Although SIM Evan appears like human Evan in every way, Fay...

Inside Pandora's Box
2023
as Self
A series of featurettes on the challenges facing cast and crew as filmmakers devise new technologies to push the limits of cinema

Transfusion
2023
as Ryan Logan
Ryan Logan, a former Special Forces operative, is battling to cope with life after the loss of his wife. He is thrusted into the criminal underworld ...

Transfusion
2023
Executive Producer
Ryan Logan, a former Special Forces operative, is battling to cope with life after the loss of his wife. He is thrusted into the criminal underworld ...

Avatar: The Way of Water
2022
as Jake Sully
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follo...

9 Bullets
2022
as Jack
A former burlesque dancer turned author discovers a second chance at life and redemption when she risks everything to rescue her young neighbor after ...

The Last Son
2021
as Isaac LeMay
Isaac LeMay, a murderous outlaw, learns he is cursed by a prophecy: one of his children will kill him. To prevent this, he hunts down each of his estr...

Lansky
2021
as David Stone
When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the ret...

Fractured
2019
as Ray Monroe
Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to ...

The Titan
2018
as Lt. Rick Janssen
On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But his wife fears he's becoming more creature than man.

The Hunter's Prayer
2017
as Stephen Lucas
An assassin forges an unlikely partnership with one of his targets: a woman seeking revenge for the murder of her family.

The Hunter's Prayer
2017
Producer
An assassin forges an unlikely partnership with one of his targets: a woman seeking revenge for the murder of her family.

The Shack
2017
as Mack Phillips
A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.

The Soul of War: Making 'Hacksaw Ridge'
2017
as Self
A comprehensive documentary detailing the making of 'Hacksaw Ridge', including the real-life people and story, casting, filming, special effects, stun...

Hacksaw Ridge
2016
as Captain Glover
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector...

Everest
2015
as Guy Cotter
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-i...

Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
2015
as Willem Holleeder
The true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a r...

The Keeping Room
2014
as Moses
In this radically reimagined American Western set towards the end of the Civil War, Southerner Augusta encounters two renegade, drunken soldiers who a...

Cake
2014
as Roy Collins
After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suic...

Paper Planes
2014
as Jack
Dylan discovers he has a talent for making paper planes. He has a chance to compete in a world championship, but he'll have to face bullies and self-d...

Sabotage
2014
as James 'Monster' Murray
John 'Breacher' Wharton leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-sta...

Drift
2013
as JB
In the 70s two brothers battle killer waves, conservative society and ruthless bikers to kick-start the modern surf industry.

Wrath of the Titans
2012
as Perseus
Perseus tries to live a quieter life as a village fisherman while – dangerously weakened by humanity's lack of devotion – the gods are losing control ...

Man on a Ledge
2012
as Nick Cassidy
An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. H...

Texas Killing Fields
2011
as Mike Souder
In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders.

Capturing Avatar
2010
as Self
Capturing Avatar is a feature length behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Avatar. It uses footage from the film's development, as well as...

Last Night
2010
as Michael Reed
Michael and Joanna are a young and successful married couple who appear to have it all. But when Michael finds himself alone on a business trip with a...

The Debt
2010
as Young David Peretz
Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that...

Love and Distrust
2010
as Miles (segment "Blue Poles")
This collection of five short films artfully portrays desire's ability to both empower and destroy those who encounter it.

Clash of the Titans
2010
as Perseus
Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus vo...

Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora
2010
as Self
The Making-of James Cameron's Avatar. It shows interesting parts of the work on the set.

Avatar
2009
as Jake Sully
In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecti...

Terminator Salvation
2009
as Marcus Wright
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But whe...

Rogue
2007
as Neil
When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud isl...

Macbeth
2006
as MacBeth
Macbeth, loyal to his crime boss, Duncan, is told by witches that he will one day take over. Driven by their prophecy, he and his wife plot to kill Du...
Battle of Long Tan
2006
as Narrator
In the gathering dusk of 18 August 1966, 108 young, inexperienced Australian and NZ soldiers are separated and surrounded, fighting for their lives, h...

A Fairytale of the City
2006
as The Artist
A Fairytale of the City explores both the light and dark shades of human experience. You will be taken on the journey of a raw, luminous Girl fleeing ...

Fink!
2005
as Able
In this shoot-'em-up from Down Under, two ex-con assassins take down the wrong target and all hell ensues. With their covers about to be blown -- and ...

The Great Raid
2005
as PFC Lucas
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 5...

Somersault
2004
as Joe
Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, He...

Thunderstruck
2004
as Ronnie
After a near death experience, five Boys, all devoted AC/DC fans, make a pact to bury their best friend next to the grave of Bon Scott. 12 years later...

Gettin' Square
2003
as Barry 'Wattsy' Wirth
Gettin' Square is about starting over, keeping clean and going straight. Barry Wirth is fresh out of prison and determined to stay on the straight and...

Dirty Deeds
2002
as Darcy
Set in 1960s Sydney, this is the story of an Australian gangster whose booming business, buoyed by the influx of U.S. soldiers in town for R&R during ...

Hart's War
2002
as as Cpl. B.J. 'Depot' Guidry
When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep on fighting even from behind enemy lines. Enlistin...

Bootmen
2000
as Mitchell
Sean Odkin loves to dance—much to his fathers distain. When the woman he loves cannot return his love, he goes in search of the only thing that can ma...
Seacole
N/A
as Thomas Day
The biopic of Mary Seacole, a Scottish-Jamaican nurse and heroine during the Crimean War.

Fuze
N/A
A long-buried WWII bomb found in central London sparks a citywide evacuation.
The Cross
N/A
The movie will be set in the future, in a multiracial country divided into two nations by a border. “Cross” will tell the story of the people caught i...
Blue Poles
N/A
as Miles
A young woman struggles within herself during a time of "coming of age". She is split between commitments/responsibilities, desires and trying to make...
CounterPlay
N/A
An Australian national, wrongly accused of being a drug dealer in Manila, is about to spend the rest of his life in jail. An Australian corporate inte...

First Warrior
N/A
Australia was colonized in the late 1700s. Pemulwuy, a man of the Bidjigal tribes — from the region that is today modern-day Sydney — led a 12-year re...