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Samantha Robinson (American actress)
English/American actress (born 1991) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Samantha Robinson (born October 19, 1991) is a British-American actress, best known for her roles in The Love Witch and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.[1][2]
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Personal life
Robinson was born on October 19, 1991, in New York City to a Panamanian mother and an English father. When Robinson was a few years old, her family moved to London where she attended Queen's Gate School and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. When she was 14, Robinson and her mother relocated to Miami, Florida, where she attended the New World School of the Arts. In 2014, Robinson graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a concentration in acting.[3][4][5]
Her mother died of ovarian cancer in 2019.[6]
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Career
As a child, Robinson performed in a West End production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.[citation needed]
Robinson's early roles included the independent films Serenade of Sonnets, Dreamgirl, and Labyrinths, and the Lifetime TV movie Sugar Daddies.[3][7]
Her breakthrough came in 2016 with the lead role in the film The Love Witch directed by Anna Biller.[8][9][10][11][12] Audience and critic response to her performance was mostly positive. Frank Scheck, writing for The Hollywood Reporter, called Robinson's performance "intense" and "alluring in a way that goes far beyond her lithe dancer's body and stunning looks."[13] Variety's Dennis Harvey said Robinson "does a great job encapsulating another era’s kitten-with-a-whip affectations."[14] Charles Bramesco wrote in Rolling Stone that director Biller and Robinson "have created a three-dimensional version of the stock eroticized woman."[15] The New Yorker ranked Robinson as one of the best actresses of 2016 for her role in film.[16]
In 2019, Robinson portrayed Abigail Folger, heiress and Tate-LaBianca murder victim, in Quentin Tarantino's film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.[17][18]
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