Tara Samuel
ACTOR/ROSE
Tara Samuel hails from Toronto Canada, where she was classically-trained at George Brown theatre school, and began her career on the professional stage. She is most widely known for her television role “Tara Williams” in Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye. which continues to air around the world. Other television credits: The Mindy Project, The Neddeaus, The Division, Beachwood Charter, Singled Out, The Bold & The Beautiful, Twice In A Lifetime, Killer Deal.
She received a Best Actress Award from the Manhattan International Film Festival, for her role “Ruby” in the film Ruby Booby. Other film credits: Tiger Orange, Way Down In Chinatown, Hunt the Maguffin, The Interview, The Rwanda Blend, Tanya & Gary, Prairie Sonata, The Drain, The Third Eye.
As a filmmaker, Tara wrote, directed, produced and starred in FIND (The Journal of Short Film) which screened at festivals around the world; was nominated Best Narrative Short at the Oscar-qualifying Austin Film Festival. Also as producer-actor: Ruby Booby, dir. Jon Rannells, The Rwanda Blend, dir. Sam Zvibleman, and Prairie Sonata, directed by longtime collaborator Deborah LaVine.
Tara’s screenwriting credits include Find, Last Wish and Karen Of God, and she is co-founder of both Busterhouse Productions and of the notorious Los Angeles indie film collective www.wemakemovies.org As story-consultant, Tara is CEO of www.sriptkicker.com and is published in Movie Maker Magazine online. In 2014, Tara was honored at the LA Business Journal’s Women Making A Difference Symposium & Awards for her notable work in the Los Angeles filmmaking community.
