Sean Astin

Sean Astin (born February 25, 1971 in Santa Monica, California) is a film actor, director, and producer.

Astin most recently played Samwise Gamgee in Peter Jackson's the Lord of the Rings movies.

While working on The Two Towers he persuaded a number of fellow cast and crew members, including director Peter Jackson, to act in or work as crew on his short film, The Long and Short of It (2003), which takes place on a street in Wellington, New Zealand. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, 2003, and appears on the "standard edition" DVD of The Two Towers as an extra feature together with a "making of" video.