Benedict Samuel
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Upon graduating from the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 2009, Benedict was immediately cast in several prominent Australian TV shows. Matchbox Pictures children's series, My Place, as the troublesome Hammer Pirovic on Home & Away and Michael in Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo.
2011 saw Benedict's theatre debut in the Malthouse production of Tis Pity She's A Whore directed by Marion Potts and Judith's Kiss in the Bondi Pavilion Theatre. He returned to the theatre again in 2013 in the experimental Tanya Goldberg's The Blind Date Project.
2012 Benedict was cast as Jonah in Underground, The Julian Assange Matchbox tele-movie directed by Robert Connolly.
In 2014 Benedict made his feature film debut starring in the indie flick Asthma, directed by Jake Hoffman.
2015 will be a big year for Benedict with 3 U.S. feature films being released; The Walk by Robert Zemeckis, The Stanford Prison Experiment by Kyle Patrick Alvarez, and By Way Of Helena directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith. He will also be seen later this year in the highly anticipated ABC series The Beautiful Lie produced by John Edwards and Imogen Banks and starring opposite Sarah Snook.
Benedict is currently shooting a recurring role in the popular horror apocalyptic US series The Walking Dead.
2011 saw Benedict's theatre debut in the Malthouse production of Tis Pity She's A Whore directed by Marion Potts and Judith's Kiss in the Bondi Pavilion Theatre. He returned to the theatre again in 2013 in the experimental Tanya Goldberg's The Blind Date Project.
2012 Benedict was cast as Jonah in Underground, The Julian Assange Matchbox tele-movie directed by Robert Connolly.
In 2014 Benedict made his feature film debut starring in the indie flick Asthma, directed by Jake Hoffman.
2015 will be a big year for Benedict with 3 U.S. feature films being released; The Walk by Robert Zemeckis, The Stanford Prison Experiment by Kyle Patrick Alvarez, and By Way Of Helena directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith. He will also be seen later this year in the highly anticipated ABC series The Beautiful Lie produced by John Edwards and Imogen Banks and starring opposite Sarah Snook.
Benedict is currently shooting a recurring role in the popular horror apocalyptic US series The Walking Dead.
