Samantha Soule
Samantha Soule is an actor, born 1980.
Samantha Soule is a stage actress who films. Her Broadway and off-Broadway work, including Dinner at Eight, The Other Thing and Killers and Other Family, is the spine of the career, and the screen credits have gathered around it rather than replaced it.
The four listed here are a fair sample of what television asks of an actor with that training. Charlotte Temple in Godless, the Netflix western set in a mining town left almost entirely to its women, is the largest of them and the one that gave her most to do. Anna Carrera in Outer Banks and Inka Gisladottir in Tales of the City are supporting parts done properly, which is its own skill. Revolutionary Road credits her as a party guest.
She has also worked on Nurse Jackie, The Blacklist, The Queen's Gambit and Scorsese's The Irishman, none of which are among the credits listed here. And she directs: Midday Black Midnight Blue is her feature, and she co-wrote it, which makes her one of the few people in this line of work who has built a second career rather than waited for the phone.
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TV (3)
Where to start with Samantha Soule
Godless first, and it is not a close contest. The show gives its female cast the kind of room westerns almost never allow, and Charlotte Temple is written with actual contradictions in her rather than a single trait, which is the sort of part stage actors tend to eat.
Tales of the City is next, warmer and quieter and better suited to her register than the show's reputation suggests. Outer Banks is the popular one, a teen adventure series where she plays a parent, so adjust expectations accordingly. Revolutionary Road is a completist's footnote. If her work interests you, the theatre and her directing are where to look next.