Samuel Barnett
Samuel Barnett is a two-time Tony nominee for Best Actor (Twelfth Night) and Best Supporting Actor (The History Boys). He won a Drama Desk Award for Best Supporting Actor and two WhatsOnStage awards for Best Newcomer and Best Supporting Actor (The History Boys). He is a also a BIFA and Olivier nominee for the film and stage versions of The History Boys. He is the recipient of a Stage Edinburgh Award for acting excellence for his performance in Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen, which also won a Fringe First and an Off-West End award for Best Solo Performance. He won another Off-West End award for his portrayal of Benjamin Britten in Ben and Imo.
Film includes: Savage House (Altitude Films/Paramount), Blame It On Rome (Colorado Film Production/Amazoin), Lee (Hopscotch Features), And Mrs (Who’s On First Films), The Lady in the Van (BBC Films/Tristar Productions), Jupiter Ascending (Warner Bros), Love Tomorrow (Soda Pictures), Brightstar (Pathe/Jan Chapman Films), The History Boys (BBC Films/Fox Searchlight), Mrs Henderson Presents (Heyman-Hoskins Productions).
Television includes: the title character in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (Netflix/BBC America); The Prince, John Adams (HBO); Black Doves, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Netflix); Penny Dreadful (Show Time); Alexander Hamilton (PBS); Four Lives, Twenty Twelve, Shakespeare in Italy, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Beautiful People, Desperate Romantics, Crooked House, Wilfred Owen, Strange, Doctors, Inspector Lynley, Coupling (BBC); Murder in Provence, Endeavour, Vicious, Marple, The Royal (ITV); The Amazing Mr Blunden, Urban Myths (Sky); Not Safe For Work (Channel 4); Marlow Murder Club (Monumental/U&Alibi).
Theatre includes: The History Boys (National Theatre, Broadhurst Theater Broadway & World Tour); Twelfth Night, Richard III (Shakespeare’s Globe, Apollo Theatre West End & Belasco Theater Broadway); Pride The Musical, An Oak Tree, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Women Beware Women, His Dark Materials (National Theatre); The Last Stand of Mrs Mary Whirtehouse (Nottingham Playhouse); Ben and Imo (RSC & Orangetree Theatre); Dealer’s Choice (Menier Chocolate Factory & Trafalgar Theatre West End);Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Chichester Festival Theatre & Theatre Royal Haymarket West End); Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going to Happen (Roundabout/Edinburgh Fringe & Bush Theatre, Australia tour); Rock Follies, The Accrington Pals (Chichester Minerva Theatre); Straight Line Crazy, Allelujah (Bridge Theatre); Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Way of the World (Sheffield Crucible); 66 Books, When You Cure Me, The Whisky Taster (Bush Theatre); The Man (Finborough Theatre); The Marriage of Figaro (Manchester Royal Exchange).
