Samantha Mathis Biography
Samantha Mathis is an American actress and labor advocate who served as SAG-AFTRA’s Vice President from 2015 to 2019. Pump Up the Volume, Super Mario Bros., and Atlas Shrugged are among her film credits. Mathis has also appeared in Billions and The Strain.
How old is Samantha Mathis? – Age
She is 53 years old as of 12 May 2023. She was born in 1970 in Williamsburg, New York, United States.
Samantha Mathis Family – Education
Mathis is the daughter of Donald Mathis and Bibi Besch, an Austrian-born actress. Mathis’ parents split when she was two years old, and she was raised by her mother. She moved to Los Angeles, California, with her mother when she was five years old.
Samantha Mathis Husband – Children
On the filming of the 1993 film The Thing Called Love, Mathis met actor River Phoenix. Soon after, she ended her relationship with boyfriend and Super Mario Bros. co-star John Leguizamo and began dating Phoenix. She was with Phoenix on October 31, 1993, the night he died of a drug overdose at Cedars-Sinai Hospital after collapsing outside The Viper Room in West Hollywood, California.
Samantha Mathis Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $4 Million.
Samantha Mathis Salem’s Lot
She appeared as Susan Norton in the 2004 American two-part television miniseries Salem’s Lot. Two years after stabbing priest Donald Callahan, Ben Mears, a prominent writer, returns to his village of Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine. He tells Susan Norton that he was a child who accepted a challenge to enter the home of Prohibition-era mobster Hubie Marsten. Ben intended to rent the property to acquire material for his work, but Larry Crockett sold it to antique dealers Richard Straker and Kurt Barlow. Salem’s Lot is riddled with dark mysteries, such as Ralphie Glick’s murder, Danny’s death, and Dud Rodgers’ transformation into a vampire.
Samantha Mathis The Strain
In the American horror drama television series The Strain, she was cast as Justine Feraldo, a key character and motivated councilwoman who despises Mayor Lyle and the city council’s passivity. Feraldo, a rising star in the Strigoi plague fight, effectively eradicates the virus from Staten Island and builds a quarantine facility at the Staten Island Ferry port. Her militia, outfitted with UV lights and silver bullets, grows in popularity and obtains Mayor Lyle’s support.
Their friendship is put to the test when Mayor Lyle abandons Feraldo in the Battle of Red Hook, resulting in terrible fatalities. Mayor Lyle puts pressure on Feraldo to clean up the Upper East Side, but she refuses, instead establishing a parcel fee to pay police personnel. Lyle demands her resignation and threatens to fire her. A homicide investigator and Palmer are after Feraldo, hoping to control or undermine her resistance. Feraldo is encircled by strigoi in the third season prefinale, and her loyal officers are slaughtered. Frank Kowalski and Feraldo are afflicted with worms, and their deaths are witnessed by Augustine, the solitary survivor.
Samantha Mathis Movies
♦ 2018 – Being Frank
♦ 2018 – The Clovehitch Killer
♦ 2018 – Boarding School
♦ 2017 – Ray Meets Helen
♦ 2016 – American Pastoral
♦ 2014 – Affluenza
♦ 2012 – Atlas Shrugged: Part II
♦ 2011 – Good Day for It
♦ 2011 – Camilla Dickinson
♦ 2010 – Buried
♦ 2010 – Order of Chaos
♦ 2010 – Lebanon, Pa.
♦ 2009 – The New Daughter
♦ 2009 – Apple Pie and Coffee
♦ 2006 – Believe in Me
♦ 2006 – Local Color
Samantha Mathis TV Shows
♦ 2023 – 12 Desperate Hours
♦ 2020 – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
♦ 2019 – Billions
♦ 2019 – Into the Dark
♦ 2019 – Bull
♦ 2015–16 – The Strain
♦ 2014 – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
♦ 2013 – Under the Dome
♦ 2011 – Curb Your Enthusiasm
♦ 2010 – Unanswered Prayers
♦ 2009 – Grey’s Anatomy
♦ 2009 – Royal Pains
♦ 2007 – Lost
♦ 2007 – A Stranger’s Heart
♦ 2007 – Mitch Albom’s For One More Day
♦ 2006 – Secrets of a Small Town
♦ 2006 – Absolution
♦ 2006 – House