Anna Samson

Actor, Anatomy of a Suicide

After graduating drama school, Anna Samson has gone on to perform extensively in theatre, film and television.

Her theatre credits include:

• Bliss (Belvoir Theatre and Malthouse Theatre)
• Pompeii LA (Malthouse Theatre)
• Birdland, Skylight, The Sublime and The Heretic (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Ruben Guthrie, Day One, A Hotel, Evening and Wet House (Red Stitch)
• The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, After All This, Love (Darlinghurst Theatre Company)
• Opening Night (Belvoir Theatre)
• Anatomy of a Suicide (The Old Fitz, Seymour Centre)

Selected TV and film credits include Wake In Fright, Jack Irish, Halifax, Dead Lucky, Home and Away, The Leftovers (HBO), Dr Blake, Offspring, Winners and Losers, the feature film Children of the Corn, and What If It Works (for which she was awarded Best Actress, Special Jury Prize, at the 2018 Oz Flicks Awards).

Anna is an Australia Council grant recipient, and was also selected as the Red Stitch Graduate Ensemble Member upon graduation. She was a recipient of the John Tallis Award for Excellence in her dramatic studies, and has recently been accepted into the University of Sydney for her masters in writing. Anna wrote and directed her first short film earlier this year, and her second is currently in development.