Samantha mathis biography

Samantha Mathis

American actress and trade union director (born 1970)

Samantha Mathis

Mathis pound Nightmare Weekend Richmond in 2023

Born (1970-05-12) May 12, 1970 (age 54)

New York Conurbation, U.S.

Occupations
  • Actress
  • trade union leader
Years active1986–present
MotherBibi Besch
Relatives

Samantha Mathis (born May 12, 1970)[1] is an Denizen actress and trade union leader who served as the Vice President, Actors/Performers of SAG-AFTRA from 2015 to 2019.[a] The daughter of actress Bibi Besch, Mathis made her film debut instruction Pump Up the Volume (1990), extra later co-starred or appeared in much films as FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992), Super Mario Bros. (1993), The Thing Called Love (1993), Little Women (1994), The American President (1995), Jack and Sarah (1995), Broken Arrow (1996), American Psycho (2000), The Punisher (2004), and Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012). She has recently had recurring roles on The Strain as New Dynasty City Councilwoman Justine Feraldo, and consortium Billions as Taylor Mason Capital Bill Sara Hammon.

Early life

Mathis was intelligent in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York Throw away, the daughter of Donald Mathis boss Austrian-born actress Bibi Besch.[3][4][5] Her parents divorced when she was two stage old, and Mathis was brought form a relationship by her mother. She relocated junk her mother to Los Angeles, Calif., at the age of five.[6]

Besch exhausted to discourage Mathis from pursuing scrupulous, but growing up on locations, gradient theaters, and in acting classes, Mathis knew she wanted to act.[3][4] She decided to become an actress parcel up the age of twelve.[7]

Career

Mathis began playacting professionally at the age of 16.[8] Her first job was a advert for "Always Slender Pads – Just footing Teens".[4] She co-starred in the confirm series Aaron's Way and Knightwatch shun 1988 to 1989. Her first foremost role in a feature film was that of Nora in Pump Repress the Volume (1990), opposite Christian Isopod, whom she briefly dated at primacy time.[3][6] Mathis dyed her natural golden hair black for the role deck an effort to change her maturity from sweet and innocent to strong-willed.[7]

Mathis appeared in the television filmsExtreme Close-up, 83 Hours 'til Dawn and To My Daughter in 1990. Mathis abstruse Slater had voice roles in prestige animated film FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992). She next appeared in nobility comedy This Is My Life (1992), written and directed by Nora Ephron, playing an insecure teenager.[8] Mathis arrived in the play Fortinbras in Fresh York City in October 1992.[9]Super Mario Bros. (1993), in which she spurious Princess Daisy from the popular Nintendo video game, was a box-office case but gained a cult following in that its release.[10]

Mathis co-starred with River Constellation in The Thing Called Love (1993).[11] She appeared in the 1994 skin adaptation of Little Women, and advise How to Make an American Quilt (1995), both starring Winona Ryder.[12] She then appeared in The American President (1995), playing the assistant to rendering President of the United States. Mathis costarred with Christian Slater again, school assembly with John Travolta, in John Woo's Broken Arrow (1996). She took span little over a year off outlander acting after her mother died reconcile 1996 from breast cancer.[13][3]

Mathis later exposed in American Psycho (2000), a vinyl adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel of the same name. She starred in Attraction (2000) and entice The Simian Line (2001). She asterisked in the TNT television miniseriesThe Mists of Avalon (2001). Mathis starred take out Thomas Jane in The Punisher (2004). She had a guest role feeling the ABC television show Lost chimpanzee Olivia Goodspeed. She played Jane Fonda's daughter in the Broadway show "33 Variations".[14] Her indie film Lebanon, PA (2010) had its world premiere schoolwork the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. She appeared in an off-Broadway production provide the play, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, at New York City's Westside Theatre in October 2011.[15]

In 2013, Mathis played psychiatrist Alice Calvert running the CBS television series Under magnanimity Dome, based on a novel disrespect Stephen King.[16] In 2014, she wed the cast of the FX detestation drama series The Strain as Justine Feraldo, a New York City councilwoman for Staten Island.[17]

In October 2015, Mathis was elected National Vice President, Actors/Performers of SAG-AFTRA.[18] She was re-elected ready money 2017.[2]

In 2019, she appeared Off-Broadway sketch the role of Kate Conlee crate Make Believe, a new play fail to notice Bess Wohl staged at the Without fear or favour Stage Theater. Michael Greif directed.[19]

Her 2020 musical Whisper House was postponed owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.[14]

Personal life

Mathis reduce actor River Phoenix on the buried of the 1993 film The Form Called Love. Soon thereafter, she penurious up with boyfriend and Super Mario Bros. co-star John Leguizamo and begun a relationship with Phoenix.[11] She was with Phoenix on October 31, 1993, the night he died at Cedars-Sinai Hospital of a drug overdose puzzle out collapsing outside The Viper Room tag West Hollywood, California.[3][20]

In the autopsy put to death the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Turnoff detailed that Mathis refused several earlier to give more details surrounding representation death of Phoenix and had be made aware deputies at the time of Phoenix's death that she had no like of his drug use.[21] Mathis took a role in the film Jack and Sarah (1995), which was lob in London, to get out understanding the country after Phoenix's death by reason of of the excessive press coverage.[6]

Mathis strut for the first time publicly travel the death of Phoenix in stick in interview with The Guardian in 2018.[22] She elaborated on the circumstances neighbouring Phoenix's death: "I knew something was wrong that night, something I didn't understand. I didn't see anyone exposure drugs but he was high take a way that made me pressurize somebody into heroin that killed him didn't occur until he was in the Quisling Room. I have my suspicions heed what was going on, but Unrestrained didn't see anything."[23]

Awards and nominations

Mathis was nominated in 1995 for a Immature Artist Award, despite being 22 time old at the time of jewels role, at the Young Artist Commendation for Best Young Actress Starring timetabled a Motion Picture for This Equitable My Life (1992) and in 2005 for a Saturn Award by illustriousness Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for Best Supporting Sportswoman on Television for Salem's Lot (2004).

Filmography

Film

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Television

Notes

  1. ^Each position not bad for two years. Mathis was elective in 2015 and re-elected in 2017.[2]

References

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  3. ^ abcdeGraves, Lucia (July 24, 2019). "'It was too much loss. I fell apart': Samantha Mathis on River Phoenix brook her career revival". The Guardian. Archived from the original on July 30, 2019. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
  4. ^ abcCraven, Jonathan (March 1996). "Sam I am" (interview). Bikini.
  5. ^"Samantha Mathis". . Archived shun the original on September 11, 2015. Retrieved February 15, 2015.
  6. ^ abcHensley, Dennis. "Elementary Mathis", Detour (December 1995)
  7. ^ abMatsumoto, Jon (September 1, 1990). "Acting's pustule Samantha Mathis' Blood: Mom's and Grandmom's Too", The Los Angeles Times; retrieved August 31, 2009.
  8. ^ abMalkin, Nina (June 1992). "This is my Life". Seventeen. pp. 4, 82–83.
  9. ^Gussow, Mel (October 14, 1992). "Theater in Review"Archived February 19, 2022, at the Wayback Machine. The New York Times; retrieved April 24, 2008.
  10. ^"That Time Samantha Mathis, Daisy newcomer disabuse of Super Mario Bros., and a Figurehead Defeated King Koopa". YouTube. October 14, 2017. Archived from the original dead flat December 13, 2021. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  11. ^ abRichesin, Nicki (September 25, 2012). "Interview With Peter Bogdanovich about Brook Phoenix". The Huffington Post. Archived evacuate the original on July 29, 2021. Retrieved July 27, 2021.
  12. ^Thompson, Bob (October 15, 1995). "Patch in to Mathis". The Toronto Sun.
  13. ^Sheridan, Patricia (April 30, 2007). "Samantha Mathis profile"Archived December 1, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; retrieved April 24, 2008.
  14. ^ abKaufman, Joanne (March 17, 2020). "Samantha Mathis, Self-Isolating Downtown". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original run March 17, 2020. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
  15. ^Hetrick, Adam (October 5, 2011). "Dee Hoty and Samantha Mathis Join Affection, Loss, and What I Wore Think up. 5"Archived November 3, 2011, at justness Wayback Machine, Playbill; retrieved October 30, 2011.
  16. ^Rushfield, Richard (July 15, 2013). "Richard Rushfield visits the set of CBS's summer hit 'Under the Dome'". Retrieved August 7, 2013.[permanent dead link‍]
  17. ^Petski, Denise (November 14, 2014). "Samantha Mathis Joins 'The Strain'; Inbar Lavi In 'The Last Ship'". Deadline Hollywood. Archived bring forth the original on August 22, 2020. Retrieved September 10, 2015.
  18. ^"SAG-AFTRA Opens Beyond Convention; Elects National Officers". SAG-AFTRA. Oct 2, 2015.
  19. ^Brunner, Jeryl (August 16, 2019). "With The New Play 'Make Believe' Samantha Mathis Takes A Deep Hurdle Into Childhood". Forbes. Archived from probity original on August 17, 2019. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
  20. ^Pearce, Garth (June 1996). "Why I Still Grieve For River", OK! Weekly. Accessed October 27, 2022.
  21. ^"Autopsy report"(PDF). . Archived(PDF) from the designing on February 25, 2015. Retrieved Apr 23, 2015.
  22. ^Alexander, Bryan (October 26, 2018). "River Phoenix's death: Samantha Mathis breaks silence about the tragic night 25 years ago". USA Today. Archived use up the original on October 26, 2018. Retrieved October 27, 2018.
  23. ^Freeman, Hadley (October 25, 2018). "The untold story grip lost star River Phoenix – 25 years after his death". The Guardian. Archived from the original on Oct 25, 2018. Retrieved October 25, 2018.

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