Occupation Actor Years active 2005–present | Name Samuel Collings Role Theater Actor | |
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Relatives David Collings (father) | ||
Samuel Collings is a British actor from London.
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Life & Career
Samuel Collings is the son of actors David Collings and Karen Archer. He has a twin sister, Eliza, who is also an actor. Samuel became interested in acting from a very early age and was highly involved in the creative arts- particularly theater, dance and music- before joining both the National Youth Theatre and Glyndebourne Youth Group, among other companies.
Professionally he has appeared on stage and screen in the UK, US and Internationally. In the television series Hex he played the regular character of Tom, who is secretly gay and in love with his best friend, and the role of King Zedekiah in the Emmy Award-winning drama The Bible. Other credits include New Tricks, The Insiders, Envoi, Dr Faustus, School For Scandal, Bluebird, Doctors and Holby City. Alongside his screen work Collings has appeared extensively in theater and radio drama, as well as featuring on audio books, recordings, voice over/ADR and other media.
Most recent theater credits include playing Catus Deciamus in the world premiere of Boudica at Shakespeare's Globe, appearing as the antagonistic Harvey Baines in the stage premiere of award-winning BBC TV comedy series Waiting For God (UK No.1 Tour 2017), Scrooge in The Fitzrovia Radio Hour's A Christmas Carol (London) and Jesus in The Globe's premiere of The Inn At Lydda (both 2016).
Some of his other various stage work includes Octavius Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra (RSC/Public Theater, NYC/Gablestage, Miami), Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Banquo in Macbeth, Cassio in Othello, the protagonist Stavrogin in a transpositon of Dostoevsky's Demons (workshop production), The Man in The Man with the Flower in His Mouth (Offie Award Nom), Lyngstrand in The Lady from the Sea, Gaveston/Lightborn in Edward II, Lord Darlington in Lady Windermere's Fan, Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, Lysander, Demetrius & Flute in multiple productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry Crawford in an adaptation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, two productions of Doctor Faustus, Joseph Surface in The School For Scandal, Jordan in Jeanette Winterson's Sexing The Cherry, Eric Birling in JB Priestley's An Inspector Calls and The Mad Hatter/Mock Turtle in Alice, a version of Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland.
Samuel Collings appeared regularly in verbatim theater and readings for the companies Ice & Fire and Actors For Human Rights (formerly Actors For Refugees) in London and across the UK, as well as featuring in performances for charity organizations including Amnesty International and the NSPCC. Further outreach work has involved projects and workshops with correctional facilities.
Selected radio includes BBC productions of Orpheus, I Am David, two adaptations of War and Peace, Soldiers' Loves and Soldiers' Lives, The Dora Bella Variation, Science At Sea, Cinderella D-Day and Penmarric, in addition to numerous live broadcasts and recordings for BBC New Writing, Resonance, Holy Mountain and others.
Collings performed alongside his parents and twin sister in a staged reading of The Chances, a Jacobean comedy by John Fletcher. It was presented at Shakespeare's Globe as part of its Read Not Dead series. He worked in radio and appeared on stage with both his father (Edward II) and sister (Lady Windermere's Fan, The Curse Of The Egyptian Mummy) and played his mother's son in School Play, a performance at The Duchess Theatre (London).
Selected Filmography
Selected Theatre
Samuel Collings is a member of Equity, the trade union for professional performers.