David Cubitt is an English-born Canadian actor who portrayed Sam Bates in Bates Motel.
Biography[]
Life and Career[]
Born in England in 1965 to a Dutch mother and an English father, he moved with his parents to Vancouver, British Columbia when he was six months old. He studied at Studio 58 there. He has starred in the Canadian series Traders and the American series Robbery Homicide Division.
He appeared as Det. Lee Scanlon in the NBC series Medium. He appeared in the NBC disaster miniseries 10.5 and 10.5: Apocalypse, and made his film debut in Alive: The Miracle of the Andes (1993), co-starring Ethan Hawke.
Personal Life[]
He is married and has a daughter named Arabella.
Trivia[]
- The pilot of Bates Motel aired on his 48th birthday.
- He guest starred on the medical drama The Good Doctor, in which Freddie Highmore (Norman Bates) plays the titular character.