Samantha Spiro
Biography
Samantha Spiro is an English actress and singer born on June 20, 1968, in Mill Hill, London, England, UK. She has a career in acting with 59 known credits. Spiro has appeared in various stage plays, television films, and series, including Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick, Cor, Blimey!, Babs, D.I., M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team, Game of Thrones, and Sex Education. She has won two Laurence Olivier Awards. Spiro is a female actor with a content score of 100, indicating a high level of recognition and popularity.
Career overview
Samantha Spiro is an English actress and singer. Born on June 20, 1968, in Mill Hill, London, England, UK. She has had a diverse career in acting, with notable roles in various stage plays and television films. Spiro played Barbara Windsor in the stage play Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick, and appeared in the television films Cor, Blimey! and Babs.
Spiro's work has also extended to television series, where she has portrayed notable characters. In the HBO series Game of Thrones, she played Melessa Tarly, and in the television series Sex Education, she played Maureen Groff. Additionally, Spiro played the role of D.I. Vivien Friend in the television series M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team.
Throughout her career, Samantha Spiro has accumulated a significant number of credits, with 59 known credits to her name. Her work has been recognized, with two Laurence Olivier Awards being awarded to her.
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- The Beatles: Ringo (2028) as Gracie
- Narnia: The Magician's Nephew (2027) as Beaver (voice)
- Missing You (2025) as Nurse Sally
- Scope (2025) as Fiona
- Hard Truths (2024) as Nicole
- Only Child (2024) as Lydia Bartlett
- Hoard (2024) as Michelle
- Beyond Paradise (2023) as Yvonne Wiley
- Still Up (2023) as Christine
- One Life (2023) as Esther Rantzen
- The Other Half (2022) as Penny
- Ridley Road (2021) as Liza Epstein
- Ragdoll (2021) as Joy Massey
- The Larkins (2021) as Bertha
- Pops (2021) as Roz Jacobs
- Where Is Anne Frank (2021) as Edith Frank (voice)
- Semi-Detached (2020) as Kate
- Kings of Broadway 2020: A Celebration of the Music of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman, and Stephen Sondheim (2020)
- Sex Education (2019) as Maureen Groff
- Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans (2019) as Mrs Felix
- A Battle in Waterloo (2019) as Mary
- Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018) as Pamela
- Grandpa's Great Escape (2018) as Patricia
- Lady Windermere's Fan (2018) as Mrs Erlynne
- Porters (2017) as Rebecca
- Carnage: Swallowing the Past (2017) as Edith Paper
- Babs (2017) as Babs
- Me Before You (2016) as Josie Clark
- Tracey Ullman's Show (2016) as Birgit
- London Spy (2015) as Detective Taylor
- Inside No. 9 (2014) as Sue
- Macbeth - Live at Shakespeare's Globe (2014) as Lady Macbeth
- Plebs (2013) as Sylvia
- Psychobitches (2013) as Audrey Hepburn
- Psychobitches (2013) as Marilyn Monroe / Mary, mother of Jesus
- Psychobitches (2013) as Liz Taylor / Golda Meir
- Psychobitches (2013) as Barbara Castle
- Psychobitches (2013) as Jackie Kennedy / Queen Victoria
- Psychobitches (2013) as Jessica Mitford / Betty
- Psychobitches (2013) as Katharine Hepburn
- Psychobitches (2013) as Lucille Ball / Janet Leigh / Amelia Earhart
- Psychobitches (2013) as Barbara Stanwyck
- Psychobitches (2013) as Gracie Fields
- Taming of the Shrew (2013) as Katherina
- Call the Midwife (2012) as Grace Calthorpe
- Playhouse Presents (2012) as Mary Whitehouse / Judy Garland
- Playhouse Presents (2012) as Audrey Hepburn
- Playhouse Presents (2012) as Marilyn Monroe / Mary, mother of Jesus
- Playhouse Presents (2012) as Liz Taylor / Golda Meir
- Playhouse Presents (2012) as Barbara Castle
- Playhouse Presents (2012) as Jackie Kennedy / Queen Victoria
- Bad Education (2012) as Pro Green
- Bad Education (2012) as Professor Green
- A Running Jump (2012) as Debbie
- Panto! (2012) as Di
- Game of Thrones (2011) as Melessa Tarly
- Vera (2011) as Belinda Rayford
- Grandma's House (2010) as Auntie Liz
- After You've Gone (2007) as Ann Venables
- Not Going Out (2006) as Bigoted Woman
- Doctor Who (2005) as Hazran
- Doc Martin (2004) as Tina Collins
- Murder Investigation Team (2003) as DI Vivien Friend
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2002) as Red Lady (voice)
- Tomorrow La Scala! (2002) as Jayney (Mrs. Lovett)
- From Hell (2001) as Martha Tabram
- Double Income, No Kids Yet (2001) as Katie
- Coupling (2000) as Jeffina
- Cor, Blimey! (2000) as Barbara Windsor
- Guru in Seven (1998) as Sharon
- Midsomer Murders (1997) as Phyllis Cuttle
- Beyond Bedlam (1994) as WPC Foster
- Something Else as Judith
- Bill's Included as Siobhan