Samuel Collings (actor)
| Samuel Collings | |
|---|---|
| Born | London, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2004–Present |
| Relatives | David Collings (Father) Karen Archer (Mother) Eliza Collings Kate Collings (Siblings) |
Samuel Collings is a British actor from London.
Samuel Collings is the son of actors David Collings and Karen Archer. He has a twin sister called 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 and voice over/ADR.
Most recent theater credits include the stage premiere of award-winning BBC series Waiting For God, appearing as the antagonist Harvey Baines (UK No.1 Tour 2017), Scrooge in The Fitzrovia Radio Hour's A Christmas Carol (London) and playing 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, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Banquo in Macbeth, Cassio in Othello, 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.
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