Samantha Soule

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Samantha Soule
OccupationActress
Years active2008–present

Samantha Soule is an American actress. She is known for her role in the Netflix series Godless , as well as Nurse Jackie , The Blacklist , The Queen's Gambit and Tales of the City . She also appears in the Martin Scorsese film The Irishman . [1] She is also known for her roles in Broadway plays, including Dinner at Eight , [2] and Off-Broadway performances, which include The Other Thing and Killers and Other Family. As a film director, her movies, include Midday Black Midnight Blue, for which she also co-wrote the screenplay.

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Theater

Soule performed a leading role in a theater festival in 2013 that was devoted to playwright Lucy Thurber, and was titled The Hill Town Plays. [3] It was produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and took place in a number of theaters in New York City. Soule described the experience to The New York Times saying, "Doing one play is like a novella, but this is like a novel, telling a much bigger story and asking questions that root much deeper." [4] Soule appeared as "Lizzie" in Thurber’s play Killers and Other Family, when it premiered in New York, and again when it was revived at Axis Theater One Sheridan Square. Soule's performance in the demanding part, a role of "terrifying physicality", [5] [6] was described as "Enormously powerful and deeply moving." [7]

Soule appeared off-Broadway in The Other Thing, a new play written by Emily Schwend, and produced by the Second Stage Theater. [8] In it she gives a "mesmerizing performance as a woman in constant battle with her own demons." [9] It was a "truly terrifying performance", according to one reviewer. [10] Variety describes Soule as "a riveting onstage presence". [11]

In A. R. Gurney’s play The Dining Room, at the Clurman Theater in New York, she and the cast won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance. [12] [13] The CurtainUp review said of her, "Samantha Soule is multiple-wonderful: as a shy, wide-eyed teenager ... as a young wife and mother who wants to put life with her husband (as well as her Lesbian lover) behind her and come home ... and, most touchingly, as a grandmother with signs of Alzheimer’s." [14]

Film and television

Soule appears in films including No Retreat, How We Got Away with It, and The Irishman ―which stars Robert De Niro [15] and is directed by Martin Scorsese. The Irishman is considered "one of his best films". [16]

Soule's appearances on television include Nurse Jackie , The Blacklist , and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit . She appears in the miniseries The Queen's Gambit as Miss Jean Blake, in Tales of the City as Inka, and in the Netflix series Godless as Charlotte Temple. Godless, produced by Steven Soderbergh, is a Western that focuses on women's experiences. [17] [18]

As a film director, Soule's films include Birdwatching and Midday Black Midnight Blue. She also stars in, and wrote the screenplay for Midday Black Midnight Blue, which was nominated for Best Screenplay Award at the 2021 Anchorage International Film Festival.[ citation needed ] The film is described as "an intimate and stirring portrait of souls struggling through grief in order to at last discover something resembling solace." [19] [20]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2008 Revolutionary Road Party Guest
2013The Penny Dreadful Picture ShowAlice
2014How We Got Away with ItSarah
2016No Retreat Emily
2017Cigarette SoupHeidi
2019 The Irishman Peggy's Godmother
2022Midday Black Midnight BlueLiv

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2012 Smash Donna1 episode
2012 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Ariel BaskinsEpisode: "Justice Denied"
2013 Do No Harm Dana Curtis1 episode
2014 Blue Bloods Joyce1 episode
2014 Nurse Jackie Anna1 episode
2016 The Blacklist Rachel Hobbs1 episode
2017 Godless Charlotte Temple7 episodes
2018 NCIS: New Orleans Amanda LandryEpisode: "Risk Assessment"
2019 Tales of the City Inka4 episodes
2019–2022 City on a Hill Michaela Freda5 episodes
2020 FBI: Most Wanted Emma KaneEpisode: "Reveille"
2020 FBI Emma KaneEpisode: "American Dreams"
2020 The Queen's Gambit Miss Jean Blake1 episode
2020–present Outer Banks Anna Carrera8 episodes

Videogame

YearTitleRole
2008 Grand Theft Auto IV Alexandra "Alex" Chilton

Stage Credits

YearTitleRoleNotes
2002Dinner at EightPaula JordanBroadway Revival
2007Coram BoyChoirOriginal Broadway Production
2009The PhilanthropistElizabethBroadway Revival, Roundabout Theatre Company
2012A Summer DayPerformerOff-Broadway
2014A FablePerformerOff-Broadway, World Premiere
2014And I and SilenceDeeOff-Broadway, Signature Theatre
2015BarbecuePerformerOff-Broadway, Public Theater
2018TransfersPerformerOff-Broadway, MCC World Premiere Production
2019The ConventPattiOff-Broadway, A.R.T. New York

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References

  1. ↑ "'Godless': Whitney Able & Samantha Soule Join Netflix Limited Series". Deadline Hollywood . June 20, 2016. Retrieved November 23, 2017.
  2. ↑ Isherwood, Charles. "Review: ‘Dinner at Eight’" Variety, December 19, 2002
  3. ↑ Hetrick, Adam. "The Verdict: Critics Review Lucy Thurber's Five-Play Cycle, The Hilltown Plays Off-Broadway". Playbill. September 06, 2013.
  4. ↑ Miller, Stuart. "Village Rallies Round a Playwrights Tale". The New York Times. August 9, 2013
  5. ↑ Vincentelli, Elisabeth. Killers and Other Family; review. New York Post. September 6, 2013.
  6. ↑ Stasio, Marilyn. "Killers and Other Family; Lucy Thurber bashes smart girls who turn their backs on their low-class backgrounds". Variety. September 24, 2009
  7. ↑ Propst, Andy. "Killers and Other Family". Theatermania. September 24, 2009.
  8. ↑ Isherwood, Charles. "Review: In ‘The Other Thing,’ a Ghostly Vigil Turns Ominous". The New York Times. May 21, 2015.
  9. ↑ Stasio, Marilyn. "Off Broadway Review: Ghost Hunter Tale ‘The Other Thing’." Variety. May 21, 2015.
  10. ↑ Stewart, Zachary. "The Other Thing; Emily Schwend pens a spooky new play for Second Stage's 2ST Uptown." Theater Mania. May 21, 2015
  11. ↑ Stasio, Marilyn. "Off Broadway Review: Ghost Hunter Tale ‘The Other Thing’." Variety. May 21, 2015.
  12. ↑ Drama Desk; Celebrating Excellence in All New York Theatre Since 1955
  13. ↑ Zinoman, Jason. "Where Change Is on the Menu". The New York Times. September 21, 2007
  14. ↑ Sommer, Elyse. "A CurtainUp Review; The Dining Room". CurtainUp. September 21, 2007.
  15. ↑ Lane, Anthony. "Remembrance of Kills Past in The Irishman". The New Yorker . November 4, 2019
  16. ↑ Bradshow, Peter. "The Irishman review – Martin Scorsese's finest film for 30 years." The Guardian . October 30, 2019.
  17. ↑ Petski, Denise. "Godless: Whitney Able & Samantha Soule Join Netflix Limited Series". Deadline. June 20, 2016.
  18. ↑ Blake, Meredith. "Scott Frank and Steven Soderbergh bring a shoot-’em-up to Netflix with Godless." Los Angeles Times. Nov. 22, 2017.
  19. ↑ "Midday Black Midnight Blue is an intimate and stirring portrait of souls struggling through grief in order to at last discover something resembling solace". NewMusic USA.
  20. ↑ D’Alessandro, Anthony. "Will Pullen Reunites With Samantha Soule & Daniel Talbott For Indie Feature Midday Black Midnight Blue". Deadline. February 3, 2021.
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