Samantha Béart is a classically trained actor known for their work on stage and in video games.
Stage includes Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern (Off-Broadway), The Call of Cthulhu (UK Tour), and as Random in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Originated on BBC Radio 4, UK national theatre tours). Games include: Darth Nul in Star Wars: The Old Republic, Cider in Absolum, Alisa in Cabernet, Player Character in Demon’s Souls, Gina in The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles and Oracle in Tron: Catalyst.
Samantha is also a BAFTA nominee, a D.I.C.E. awards finalist, and a GANG winner for their performance as Karlach in the seminal Baldur’s Gate 3. As Thomasina in The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow they were awarded a BAFTA Breakthrough – the first actor to enter the initiative on a video game. Their next announced project is as the leading role of One in Fading Echo, a desert punk action-adventure RPG.
Additionally, Samantha is the creator and host of It Takes A Village, a talk show on YouTube. The series is a celebration of the people who make games, with themes of collaboration, co-advocacy and community.
Samantha is a frequent world-traveller but hangs their hat in the UK.