Samantha Whittaker
Actor · b. 1984 · Lewisham, London, England, UK
Samantha was born in London, England to an American mother and an English father. She attended Redroofs Theatre School and Hurtwood House. While finishing her a levels she starred opposite Johnny Lee Miller in The BBC's Canterbury Tales. Samantha went on to study English Literature at University College London but left early to play Ophelia alongside Ben Wishaw in Trevor Nunn's acclaimed production of Hamlet. She also works as a writer and director and has a production company Silent Kisses Productions with Daud Shah.
Series7
TV7.7DramaMysteryThe show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.
CSI: Miami
2002 · 1.8K votes
TV6.6Sci-Fi & FantasyMysteryMartin Bohm, a widower and single father, is haunted by an inability to connect to his autistic, mute 11-year-old son, Jake. Their relationship and their lives take an extraordinary turn when he discovers his gifted son has the ability to see things that no one else can and the patterns that connect seemingly unrelated events.
Touch
2012 · 339 votes
TV9.0DramaIn the 1950s at the fictional Lancashire village of Ormston, a father and son, both doctors, navigate the challenges of running a cottage hospital under the newly established National Health Service.
Born and Bred
2002 · 3 votes
TV6.9DramaSix single dramas adapted from six of Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century Canterbury Tales, transferred to a modern, 21st century setting, but still set along the traditional Pilgrims' route to Canterbury.
Canterbury Tales
2003 · 8 votes
TV5.7DramaComing Up is a British Channel 4 television series of films made for television by new directors and writers. The first series was in 2006, and each year's series comprises seven or eight films. Series 6 was shown from July to September 2011. A reviewer in The Independent wrote: "Thank goodness for Coming Up ... it's a genuinely interesting display of possibilities".
Coming Up
2003 · 3 votes
TV6.3ComedyDanny Spencer is a voice artist who is recently bereaved and having a mid-life crisis. As he continues to voice a kung fu bear he must also deal with his friends, including a high school friend, an old flame, two lazy unemployed no hopers, a 50 something who acts like a 20-year-old and two dance music loving students who work with Danny at the voice studio. But none of this compares to the constant stress of turning 40 and remembering your youth.
Happiness
2001 · 3 votes
TV7.0A group of friends who are approaching 30 make a list of unusual tasks to perform before they reach that age.
20 Things to Do Before You're 30
2002 · 1 votes
Movies3
Movie5.6DramaRomanceInspired by the royal wedding and retelling the highs and lows of the nine-year courtship of Kate Middleton and Prince William. The couple struggles to keep their relationship together in the face of intense media scrutiny and family pressures, but the story ultimately ends in a fairytale wedding.
William & Kate
2011 · 123 votes
Movie6.4TV MovieDramaBill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and Diana's death. Nighy is a PR guru who has to stop and re-evaluate his world when his daughter threatens to leave his life, perhaps as revenge for his serial infidelities. Richardson plays a mother trying to bury her grief in an unconventional way after the loss of her young son.
Gideon's Daughter
2005 · 38 votes
- Movie
A young man's struggle through the unexpected death of his girlfriend of 8 years. She was ready for marriage, he wasn't. When he was finally ready it was too late, life had another plan.
Here We Are
2013