Samantha Spiro

Samantha Spiro

Born: June 20, 1968
in Mill Hill, London, England, UK

Movies for Samantha Spiro...

Hoard
Title: Hoard
Character: Michelle
Released: May 17, 2024
Type: Movie
Hoard is a tale of mother and daughter; it follows Maria first as a child in their loving routines; their nidus of joy full of catalogues of love. Both like magpies you see. Then as an 18-year-old navigating the past as it pays a visit; when a box of mother returns and a man called Michael comes to stay. The shimmering memories that she once suppressed begin to haunt her; as grief never really heals does it? It simply disguises itself in things.
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One Life
Title: One Life
Character: Esther Rantzen
Released: December 21, 2023
Type: Movie
British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.
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Title: Still Up
Character: Christine
Released: September 22, 2023
Type: TV
Bonded by insomnia, best friends Lisa and Danny stay connected to each other late into the night and find their way through a world of wonderfully weird surprises as their relationship deepens.
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Title: Beyond Paradise
Character: Yvonne Wiley
Released: February 24, 2023
Type: TV
After leaving paradise and seeking a quieter life, Humphrey has taken a job as Detective Inspector in his fiancée Martha's hometown. But with the high crime rate, maybe things will be louder than expected.
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Title: The Other Half
Character: Penny
Released: August 23, 2022
Type: TV
20-something Navid is half-Welsh, half-Iranian and 100% that bitch, who gets the chance to escape his small Welsh town when he lands an internship in the big city: Bristol.
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Where Is Anne Frank
Title: Where Is Anne Frank
Character: Edith Frank (voice)
Released: December 8, 2021
Type: Movie
The film follows the journey of Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom Anne Frank dedicated her diary. A fiery teenager, Kitty wakes up in the near future in Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam and embarks on a journey to find Anne, who she believes is still alive, in today's Europe. While the young girl is shocked by the modern world, she also comes across Anne's legacy.
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Title: The Larkins
Character: Bertha
Released: October 10, 2021
Type: TV
Set in the late 1950’s, The Larkins follows the golden-hearted wheeler dealer Pop Larkin and his wife Ma, together with their six children, including the beautiful Mariette, as they bask in their idyllic and beautiful patch of paradise in Kent.
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Title: Ridley Road
Character: Liza Epstein
Released: October 3, 2021
Type: TV
During London's swinging sixties, young Jewish Vivien Epstein follows her lover into danger and when he is caught between life and death, she finds herself going undercover with the fascists, not only for him but for the sake of her country.
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Pops
Title: Pops
Character: Roz Jacobs
Released: August 9, 2021
Type: Movie
How would you react if your father's last wish was a little bit out there? For siblings Roz and Elli, it becomes a battleground for who will determine their pop's final journey.
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Title: Semi-Detached
Character: Kate
Released: August 6, 2020
Type: TV
Real-time sitcom following the hapless Stuart.
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Kings of Broadway 2020: A Celebration of the Music of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman, and Stephen Sondheim
Title: Kings of Broadway 2020: A Celebration of the Music of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman, and Stephen Sondheim
Released: May 31, 2020
Type: Movie
This streaming charity concert with performances from Liz Callaway, Janie Dee, Fra Fee, Ramin Karimloo, L. Morgan Lee, Jamie Parker, Laura Pitt-Pulford, Clive Rowe, Jenna Russell, Michael Xavier, and more raises money for Acting For Others, NHS Charities Together, and Black Lives Matter Global Charities.
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A Battle In Waterloo
Title: A Battle In Waterloo
Character: Mary
Released: August 12, 2019
Type: Movie
During the Battle of Waterloo, a soldier's wife searches for her missing husband in the nearby forest and must resort to extraordinary measures to survive.
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Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans
Title: Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans
Character: Mrs Felix
Released: July 26, 2019
Type: Movie
Roman teenager, Atti is forced to join the Roman army when one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero. He is sent to "miserable, cold, wet Britain" where "the natives are revolting - quite literally". Things go from bad to worse when Atti is captured by Orla, a feisty teenage Celt desperate to prove herself as a warrior.
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Title: Sex Education
Character: Maureen Groff
Released: January 11, 2019
Type: TV
Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.
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Agatha and the Truth of Murder
Title: Agatha and the Truth of Murder
Character: Pamela
Released: December 23, 2018
Type: Movie
England, December 1926. Although her personal life is in tatters, the famous writer Agatha Christie decides to leave everything behind to help unravel an unsolved murder committed on a train six years ago, unable to imagine the disproportionate consequences that such a selfless act will cause.
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Lady Windermere's Fan
Title: Lady Windermere's Fan
Character: Mrs Erlynne
Released: March 20, 2018
Type: Movie
The day of Lady Windermere’s birthday party, and all is perfectly in order. Until her friend Lord Darlington plants a seed of suspicion. Is her husband having an affair? And will the other woman really attend the party? First performed in 1892, Lady Windermere’s Fan explores the ambiguity of upper class morality and the fragile position of women in society in the late Victorian era in one of Wilde’s most popular and witty plays.
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Grandpa's Great Escape
Title: Grandpa's Great Escape
Character: Patricia
Released: January 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Many years ago, Grandpa was a World War II flying ace, but sadly he is now suffering from Alzheimer's disease. When his family can no longer look after him, he is moved to Twilight Towers, an old people's home. It soon becomes clear that Miss Dandy is running Twilight Towers for her own ulterior motives, and it is up to Grandpa and grandson Jack to make a daring escape. Failure could have the direst of consequences, but success will give Grandpa a final chance to relive his past and take to the sky once again in his beloved Spitfire.
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Title: Porters
Character: Rebecca
Released: September 20, 2017
Type: TV
Deluded Simon Porter, dreams of becoming a doctor - but he has to start from the bottom and be a porter. His plan? Work his way up to be the best porter the NHS has ever seen.
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Babs
Title: Babs
Character: Babs
Released: May 7, 2017
Type: Movie
This is the story of Dame Barbara Windsor, the Cockney kid with a dazzling smile and talent to match. Preparing to perform in the theatre one cold evening in 1993, the cheeky, chirpy blonde Babs recounts the people and events that have shaped her life and career over fifty years from 1943 to 1993. She contemplates her lonely childhood and WWII evacuation, her decision to go from Barbara Ann Deeks to Barbara Windsor - inspired by the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, her complicated relationship with her father, her doomed marriage to Ronnie Knight, capturing the attention of Joan Littlewood and becoming the blonde bombshell in the Carry On films. Babs, ever the consummate professional, never lets her fans down whatever her personal anguish and steps on the stage to rapturous applause.
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Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Title: Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Character: Edith Paper
Released: March 19, 2017
Type: Movie
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
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Me Before You
Title: Me Before You
Character: Josie Clark
Released: June 1, 2016
Type: Movie
A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.
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Title: Tracey Ullman's Show
Character: Birgit
Released: January 11, 2016
Type: TV
Tracey Ullman returns with her unique take on some of the extraordinary characters who make up the global hub that is the UK.
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Title: London Spy
Character: Detective Taylor
Released: November 9, 2015
Type: TV
A chance romance between two men from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from a world of clubbing and youthful excess, leads into mystery after one of them suddenly disappears.
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Title: London Spy
Released: November 9, 2015
Type: TV
A chance romance between two men from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from a world of clubbing and youthful excess, leads into mystery after one of them suddenly disappears.
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Macbeth - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Title: Macbeth - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Character: Lady Macbeth
Released: June 25, 2014
Type: Movie
When three witches tell Macbeth that he is destined to occupy the throne of Scotland, he and his wife choose to become the instruments of their fate and to kill the first man standing in their path, the virtuous King Duncan. But to maintain his position, Macbeth must keep on killing – first Banquo, his old comrade-in-arms; then, as the atmosphere of guilt and paranoia thickens, anyone who seems to threaten his tyrant’s crown.
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Title: Inside No. 9
Character: Sue
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: TV
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
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Taming of the Shrew
Title: Taming of the Shrew
Character: Katherina
Released: September 2, 2013
Type: Movie
Shakespeare’s most outrageous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew introduces one of theatre’s great screwball double-acts, a couple hell-bent on confusing and outwitting each other right up to the play’s equivocal and controversial conclusion.
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Title: Plebs
Character: Sylvia
Released: March 25, 2013
Type: TV
Sitcom about three desperate young men from the suburbs who try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city - which just happens to be ancient Rome.
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Panto!
Title: Panto!
Character: Di
Released: December 26, 2012
Type: Movie
Morecambe FM disc jockey Lewis Loud is thrilled to be appearing in his first pantomime 'Dick Whittington' opposite glamorous soap star Tamsin.
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Title: Bad Education
Character: Pro Green
Released: August 14, 2012
Type: TV
Young teacher Alfie Wickers is "the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system" – at Abbey Grove School, in Watford, Hertfordshire.
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A Running Jump
Title: A Running Jump
Character: Debbie
Released: June 24, 2012
Type: Movie
Gary attempts to buy a second-hand car. What should be a straightforward task is turned into something of a quest by various people, including dodgy East End car dealer Perry, Perry's taxi-driver dad, a garage owner called Derek, Perry's wife Debbie and couple of twins.
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Title: Call the Midwife
Character: Grace Calthorpe
Released: January 15, 2012
Type: TV
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
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Title: Vera
Character: Belinda Rayford
Released: May 1, 2011
Type: TV
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
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Title: Game of Thrones
Character: Melessa Tarly
Released: April 17, 2011
Type: TV
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
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Title: Grandma's House
Character: Auntie Liz
Released: August 9, 2010
Type: TV
Sitcom about a former television presenter searching for something more meaningful to do in life.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Hazran
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Title: Doc Martin
Character: Tina Collins
Released: September 2, 2004
Type: TV
Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role. It was created by Dominic Minghella after the character of Dr. Martin Bamford in the 2000 comedy film Saving Grace. The show is set in the fictional seaside village of Portwenn and filmed on location in the village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, England, with most interior scenes shot in a converted local barn. Five series aired between 2004 and 2011, together with a feature-length special that aired on Christmas Day 2006. Series 6 began airing on ITV on 2 September 2013.
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Title: Murder Investigation Team
Character: DI Vivien Friend
Released: May 3, 2003
Type: TV
Murder Investigation Team is a British police procedural drama series produced by the ITV network as a spin-off from the long-running series, The Bill. The series is based around the cases of a Murder Investigation Team, who are linked to the Sun Hill borough of London, as featured in The Bill.
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Tomorrow La Scala!
Title: Tomorrow La Scala!
Character: Jayney
Released: December 10, 2002
Type: Movie
Members of a British opera troupe mount a production of "Sweeney Todd" within a maximum-security prison.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Title: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Character: Red Lady (voice)
Released: August 14, 2002
Type: Movie
A reworking of the 14th century Arthurian medieval poem as an animated film styled to look like stain glass windows.
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From Hell
Title: From Hell
Character: Martha Tabram
Released: February 8, 2001
Type: Movie
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
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Title: Coupling
Character: Jeffina
Released: May 12, 2000
Type: TV
Six friends in their thirties navigate dating, sexual adventures, and mishaps on their quest to find love.
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Cor, Blimey!
Title: Cor, Blimey!
Character: Barbara Windsor
Released: April 24, 2000
Type: Movie
Dramatisation of the love affair between Sidney James and Barbara Windsor, played out against the backdrop of the 'Carry On' films during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Guru in Seven
Title: Guru in Seven
Character: Sharon
Released: July 10, 1998
Type: Movie
Sanjay, following a blazing argument with his girlfriend, Jill, is persuaded by his friends to become 'The Guru' by sleeping with seven women in the next seven days before Jill returns from her trip to America.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Phyllis Cuttle
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: Missing You
Character: Sally Steiner
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Eleven years ago Detective Kat Donovan's fiancé Josh – the love of her life – disappeared and she's never heard from him since. Now, swiping profiles on a dating app, she suddenly sees his face and her world explodes all over again. Josh's reappearance will force her to dive back into the mystery surrounding her father’s murder and uncover long-buried secrets from her past.
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Something Else
Title: Something Else
Character: Judith
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Faced with the sudden disappearance of her beloved Shadow, Judith calls upon her estranged daughter Lily to return home and help her with the search. But when Judith gets a devastating call from a local farmer, Lily is forced to face up to her mother’s grief and come to terms with her own.