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Samantha Barks
Laxey, Isle of Man
Samantha Jane Barks (born 2 October 1990) is a Manx actress and singer who rose to fame after placing third in the BBC talent show-themed television series I'd Do Anything in 2008…
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Samantha Jane Barks (born 2 October 1990) is a Manx actress and singer who rose to fame after placing third in the BBC talent show-themed television series I'd Do Anything in 2008. She has released three studio albums: Looking in Your Eyes (2007), Samantha Barks (2016), and Into the Unknown (2021), and made her film debut as Éponine in the Tom Hooper-directed Les Misérables in 2012. Her performance in the film won her the Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer and a shared National Board of Review Award with the film's cast. Barks starred opposite Jonathan Bailey in the Disney Channel musical-comedy Groove High (2012–2013) and again, in the London revival of the musical The Last Five Years in 2016. In 2018, she originated the role of Vivian Ward in Pretty Woman: The Musical on Broadway. Since 2021, she has played Elsa in the West End production of Frozen, though she took some time off for maternity leave.
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2026
What Love Builds
Movie Self
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2025
Frozen: The Hit Broadway Musical
Movie Elsa
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2025
VE Day 80
TV show Self
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2024
Disney Legends Award Ceremony
TV show Self
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2023
Mamma Mia! I Have A Dream
TV show Self - Judge
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2022
Tomorrow Morning
Movie Catherine
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2020
First Date: The Musical
Movie Casey
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2019
For Love or Money
Movie Connie
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2017
All Star Musicals
TV show Self - Judge
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2017
Interlude in Prague
Movie Josefa Duchek
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2017
Bitter Harvest
Movie Natalka
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2015
The Canary
Movie Emaline
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2015
Bear Grylls: Mission Survive
TV show Self
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2013
The Christmas Candle
Movie Emily Barstow
- 2013
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2012
Les Misérables
Movie Éponine Thénardier
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2012
Groove High
TV show Zoe Myer
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2010
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
Movie Eponine
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2008
I'd Do Anything
TV show Herself - Potential Nancy
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2005
Robot Chicken
TV show Various Voices
