A celebrity in the UK from her four seasons on the award-winning police drama
“The Bill,” Samantha Robson has just completed filming “The Witch Files” for ITV.
Her second US film lead “The Poughkeepsie Tapes” produced by MGM will be
released in the summer of 2008. Her first US film “A Year and a Day,” with Fairuza
Balk and Sean Gullette is also due to release in 2008. Samantha is also the voice
of “Sarah” on the Cartoon Network’s “Toonami.”
Additionally, Samantha produced Tim Robbins’s controversial hit play
“Embedded.” After a successful Los Angeles premiere the play moved to the
Public Theatre in New York and then onto the Riverside Studios in London, where
she was also his Assistant Director.
Samantha Robson is a classically trained actress who has worked extensively with
the Royal Shakespeare Company and appeared at the Royal National Theatre
alongside Nobel-prize winning playwright Harold Pinter in a collection of his work.
Stage credits include Twelfth Night (RSC), Measure for Measure (RSC), Peer Gynt
(RSC), Cain (RSC), Music Hall (RSC), A Brand From The Burning (RSC), Eden End
(West Yorkshire Playhouse), Titus Andronicus (Hornsey Theatre), Oklahoma!
(Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), and Antigone (Bristol Old Vic). Samantha has also
worked with the eminent avant-garde Polish theatre company Gardzienice led
by Wlodzimierze Staniewski.
Other work includes The Trial of Sir Walter Raleigh with Michael York for the BBC,
Breaking the Code , Top Girls and The Living Room for LA TheatreWorks, and a
number one tour in England playing the lead of Cyrenne in Rattle Of A Simple
Man, directed by Patrick Sandford.
In addition to “The Bill” television credits include a starring turn in the BBC’s
“Murder in Mind,” and work as a presenter on Channel 4’s “The Big Breakfast.”
Samantha is a member of Tim Robbins’ Actors Gang and BAFTA LA, she also
publishes monthly on the popular writers website The Mad As Hell Club. Her first
memoir is being prepared for publication in 2009.

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