Samantha trained at The Oxford School of Drama.

Theatre work includes Tomorrow I Was Always a Lion (Belarus Free Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Watermill, Newbury); Brave New World (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); Saint Joan (European tour); Americanitis Presents The Seagull and Other Birds (Project Theatre, Dublin/European tour); Brendan at the Chelsea (Lyric Belfast/New York); Venus/Mars (Old Red Lion); Clean (Oran Mor/Traverse); Somewhere Between a News Clipping and the Gossip Section (Lyric Hammersmith); Scarberia (York Theatre Royal); The Two Worlds of Charlie F (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Sixty Six Books (Bush); Dream Pill and Dancing Bears (Clean Break); How to Be Another Woman (Gate); and Twelfth Night (National Theatre).

TV includes Peep Show, The Last Hours of LK and Lee Nelson’s Well Funny People.

Films include Legend.