Samantha Spiro

Known for: Acting

Born: 1968-06-20 (age 58)

From: Mill Hill, London, England, UK

Samantha Spiro (born 20 June 1968) is an English actress and singer. She played Barbara Windsor in the stage play Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick and the television films Cor, Blimey! and Babs, D.I. Vivien Friend in M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team, Melessa Tarly in the HBO series Game of Thrones, and Maureen Groff in Sex Education. She has won two Laurence Olivier Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Samantha Spiro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography (59)

MOVIE
The Beatles: Ringo
2028
as Gracie
MOVIE
Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
2027
as Beaver (voice)
MOVIE★ 9.5
Scope
2025
as Fiona
TV★ 6.1
Missing You
2025
as Nurse Sally
MOVIE★ 6.4
Hard Truths
2024
as Nicole
TV★ 7.2
Only Child
2024
as Lydia Bartlett
MOVIE★ 6.9
Hoard
2024
as Michelle
MOVIE★ 7.8
One Life
2023
as Esther Rantzen
TV★ 6.8
Still Up
2023
as Christine
TV★ 6.9
Beyond Paradise
2023
as Yvonne Wiley
TV
The Other Half
2022
as Penny
MOVIE★ 6.6
Where Is Anne Frank
2021
as Edith Frank (voice)
TV★ 6.0
Ragdoll
2021
as Joy Massey
TV★ 5.7
The Larkins
2021
as Bertha
TV★ 6.3
Ridley Road
2021
as Liza Epstein
MOVIE★ 2.0
Pops
2021
as Roz Jacobs
TV★ 6.0
Semi-Detached
2020
as Kate
MOVIE
Kings of Broadway 2020: A Celebration of the Music of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman, and Stephen Sondheim
2020
MOVIE★ 6.0
A Battle in Waterloo
2019
as Mary
MOVIE★ 5.2
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019
as Mrs Felix
TV★ 8.2
Sex Education
2019
as Maureen Groff
MOVIE★ 6.4
Agatha and the Truth of Murder
2018
as Pamela
MOVIE★ 10.0
Lady Windermere's Fan
2018
as Mrs Erlynne
MOVIE★ 6.1
Grandpa's Great Escape
2018
as Patricia
TV★ 7.7
Porters
2017
as Rebecca
MOVIE★ 7.3
Babs
2017
as Babs
MOVIE★ 6.4
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
2017
as Edith Paper
MOVIE★ 7.9
Me Before You
2016
as Josie Clark
TV★ 7.2
Tracey Ullman's Show
2016
as Birgit
TV★ 7.0
London Spy
2015
as Detective Taylor
MOVIE★ 8.7
Macbeth - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2014
as Lady Macbeth
TV★ 8.1
Inside No. 9
2014
as Sue
MOVIE★ 5.0
Taming of the Shrew
2013
as Katherina
TV★ 6.8
Psychobitches
2013
as Audrey Hepburn
TV★ 7.3
Plebs
2013
as Sylvia
MOVIE
Panto!
2012
as Di
TV★ 6.9
Bad Education
2012
as Pro Green
MOVIE★ 6.0
A Running Jump
2012
as Debbie
TV★ 6.0
Playhouse Presents
2012
as Mary Whitehouse / Judy Garland
TV★ 7.5
Call the Midwife
2012
as Grace Calthorpe
TV★ 7.4
Vera
2011
as Belinda Rayford
TV★ 8.5
Game of Thrones
2011
as Melessa Tarly
TV★ 6.5
Grandma's House
2010
as Auntie Liz
TV★ 4.8
After You've Gone
2007
as Ann Venables
TV★ 7.5
Not Going Out
2006
as Bigoted Woman
TV★ 7.6
Doctor Who
2005
as Hazran
TV★ 8.3
Doc Martin
2004
as Tina Collins
TV★ 7.0
Murder Investigation Team
2003
as DI Vivien Friend
MOVIE★ 8.0
Tomorrow La Scala!
2002
as Jayney (Mrs. Lovett)
MOVIE★ 6.0
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2002
as Red Lady (voice)
TV
Double Income, No Kids Yet
2001
as Katie
MOVIE★ 6.7
From Hell
2001
as Martha Tabram
TV★ 7.9
Coupling
2000
as Jeffina
MOVIE★ 7.2
Cor, Blimey!
2000
as Barbara Windsor
MOVIE★ 7.0
Guru in Seven
1998
as Sharon
TV★ 7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Phyllis Cuttle
MOVIE★ 5.1
Beyond Bedlam
1994
as WPC Foster
MOVIE
Something Else
—
as Judith
TV
Bill's Included
—
as Siobhan