
Biography
Samantha Mathis is an American actress and trade union leader who served as the vice president, actors/performers of SAG-AFTRA from 2015 to 2019. The daughter of actress Bibi Besch, Mathis made her film debut in Pump Up the Volume (1990), provided the voice of Crysta in FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992), and had a lead role in The Thing Called Love (1993). Mathis subsequently had supporting roles in films such as Little Women (1994), How to Make an American Quilt, The American President, Broken Arrow (1996), American Psycho (2000), The Punisher (2004), American Pastoral (2016), Ray Meets Helen (2017), Being Frank, The Clovehitch Killer, The Exorcism (2024), and By Design (2025).
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Filmography50+ titles

House

Grey's Anatomy

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Lost

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Billions

The Outer Limits

The Good Wife

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The Strain

American Psycho

Little Women

Bull

Under the Dome

Night Visions

Pump Up the Volume

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King

Attraction

Elsbeth

Royal Pains

Mermaid

Being Frank

Buried

The American President

83 Hours 'Til Dawn

The Clovehitch Killer

The Punisher

How to Make an American Quilt

FernGully: The Last Rainforest

Boarding School

12 Desperate Hours

American Pastoral

Local Color

The Thing Called Love

Broken Arrow

All That We Destroy

This Is My Life

By Design

Freak City

Pet Sematary: Bloodlines

Good Day for It

Kids in America

Lebanon, Pa.

The New Daughter

Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike

A Stranger's Heart

The Exorcism

Forbidden Sun

Order of Chaos

Ray Meets Helen