Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann

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Samantha Buck
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Samantha Buck receiving the Peabody for Best Kept Secret
Born
Samantha Susan Buck

(1974-12-20) December 20, 1974 (age 48)
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
OccupationDirector, actress, screenwriter
Years active1997–present
SpouseMarie Schlingmann
Marie Schlingmann
Born
Berlin, Germany
OccupationDirector, screenwriter
SpouseSamantha Buck

Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann are film writers and directors who have made five films together. Buck is also an actress and has directed the documentary Best Kept Secret solo. They are best known for the 2019 film Sister Aimee .

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Personal life and education

Buck and Schlingmann are married, [1] having met at Columbia University. [2] Both have a Master of Fine Arts in film from Columbia, and it is in this program that they created their first short films together. [3] The pair have won various grants for female directors. Schlingmann is from Berlin, [4] and though she is German, she writes screenplays in English, saying that her "creative brain" is in this language. [2]

Career

In her acting career, Buck played Det. G. Lynn Bishop in Law & Order: Criminal Intent [5] and Amy on the comedy series Stella . [5] : 1018  She became interested in film production when starring on Big Apple; the showrunner made the cast take writing workshops and encouraged her talents. She explained that it took her several years after this to follow through, because at the time there were very few actresses who had made the transition to behind the camera. She did not begin with writing, but took up documentary in the cinéma vérité style where she was "basically writing in the edit room with 100 hours of footage". [2] In 2013 she directed the Gotham Award-nominated and Peabody Award-winning documentary film Best Kept Secret . [3] [6] During the production of Best Kept Secret, Buck applied and was accepted to Columbia's film program. [2]

The couple first made films together at Columbia University, directing two award-winning short films: Canary and The Mink Catcher. The latter of these was shown at both Telluride Film Festival and South by Southwest. [3] Their first feature film as a duo was slated to be an adaptation of the young adult novel Need in 2016, as a thriller financed by Covert Media. [3] This year they also began development of the feature film The Big D, [7] something which they were still developing in 2019. [8] Both The Mink Catcher and The Big D are set in Dallas, Texas. [9] Their breakthrough feature came a few years later in 2019's Sister Aimee , which is loosely based on the story of Aimee Semple McPherson. [10] Sister Aimee screened at Sundance Film Festival in 2019, [8] and is planned to have a theatrical run and video on demand release in 2020. [11]

Production filmography

YearTitleBuckSchlingmannNotes
2008The Reasons We Were DangerousCo-director, editor, producerDocumentary [12]
200921 BelowDirectorDocumentary [13]
2012The Death of HerculesDirector, writerShort [12]
2013 Best Kept Secret Director, writer, co-producerThanksDocumentary [2]
2013Lawn CareProducerDirector, writer [12]
2014Glacial ErraticsDirectorWriter, producer [12]
2015The Mink CatcherDirector, writerWriter, producer [3]
2016CanaryWriter, producerDirector, writer [12]
2019 Sister Aimee Director, writerDirector, writer [14]

Buck acting filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1997 The Sticky Fingers of Time Gorge [15]
1997 In & Out Classroom Student [16]
1998FionaSupervisor [17]
1999 The 24 Hour Woman Deanne [18]
2000 Wirey Spindell Samantha [18]
2000Calling BobcatJudy [19]
2002 Searching for Paradise Andrea [20]
2002Heartbreak HospitalSandy [18]
2006 Fearless Journalist [21]
2006 Kettle of Fish Mother [18]
2008Woman in BurkaSamanthaShort film [22]
2012 Gayby Sophia [12] [16]
2012HellbendersPenelope [12]
2012 What Maisie Knew Zoe's Mother [12] [16]
2018 Summertime Ruth [16]
2018 Private Life Psychologist [16]
2020 The Night House Becky [21]

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2000 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit WaitressEpisode: "Entitled" [16]
2000 Third Watch Vangie SundstromRecurring role (5 episodes) [12] [16]
2001 Big Apple Brigid McNamaraRegular role (5 episodes) [12]
2003 Sex and the City MargotEpisode: "A Woman's Right to Shoes" [12]
2003–2004 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Det. G. Lynn BishopRecurring role (7 episodes) [12] [16]
2005 Stella AmyRegular role (6 episodes) [12]
2007 Six Degrees Susan HarrimanRecurring role (5 episodes) [12] [16]
2007 Wainy Days Concerned WomanEpisode: "The Pickup" [23]
2008 Z Rock Kitty Braunstein3 episodes [23]
2013 Golden Boy Tara BrunellTV series [12] [16]
2013 Blue Bloods Sheri DeanEpisode: "Ends and Means" [12] [16]
2014 Boardwalk Empire Apartment Hunting WifeEpisode: "Eldorado" [16]
2015 Public Morals Sister Paul Eugene1 episode [16]
2016 Vinyl Allison2 episodes [16]
2016 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Sophie Van Nuys [16]
2016 Person of Interest Samaritan Doctor1 episode [23]
2020 Hightown Meredith1 episode [16]

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