Benedict Samuel

Acting

Benedict Samuel

Born 1988-04-15 · Australia

Benedict Samuel (born April 15, 1988) is an Australian actor, writer, and director best known for playing Jervis Tetch / Mad Hatter in the Fox crime series Gotham and as Owen in The Walking Dead.

Acting credits

The Walk poster
7.0

The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.

The Walk

2015

The Stanford Prison Experiment poster
6.8

In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true story.

The Stanford Prison Experiment

2015

Sweetheart poster
6.4

Jenn has washed ashore a small tropical island and it doesn’t take her long to realize she’s completely alone. She must spend her days not only surviving the elements, but must also fend off the malevolent force that comes out each night.

Sweetheart

2019

The Duel poster
5.5

A Texas Ranger investigates a series of unexplained deaths in a town called Helena.

The Duel

2016

Measure of Revenge poster
4.6

Theater actress Lillian Cooper's son dies mysteriously. When the investigating officer rules the cause of death an accidental overdose, Lillian conducts her own investigation which leads her to an unlikely alliance with her son's former drug dealer. On her quest for answers, Lillian hallucinates some of the iconic characters she's played on stage which serve as her inner voice, urging her to avenge her son's death.

Measure of Revenge

2022

Warning poster
4.8

Loneliness, death and the meaning of life, explored through vastly separate lives colliding in interweaving short stories set in future Earth.

Warning

2021

My Valentine poster
5.6

A pop singer's artistic identity is stolen by her ex-boyfriend/manager and shamelessly pasted onto his new girlfriend/protégé. Locked together late one night in a concert venue, the three reconcile emotional abuses of the past...until things turn violent.

My Valentine

2020

Ellipsis poster
6.0

In the middle of a crowded city the paths of two strangers, a man and a woman, collide. This accidental, chance occurrence sets in motion a chain of events that sees the two strangers embark on a night of adventure and connection that challenges their separate lives.

Ellipsis

2018

Lovers poster
NR

Two women return to their hometown for the funeral of a friend who has taken his own life. They find themselves reconnecting with their old community at Lovers, the local dive bar music venue that hasn’t changed in the years since they left. The friends face their shared loss, and are reminded of the power of coming together through music.

Lovers

2024

Kiss poster
7.9

Tom has never been kissed but when his best friend offers his girlfriend to practice with, his desire suddenly awakes. With Tom having to choose between his loyalty to friendship and his newfound feelings, the trio's carefree friendship will never be the same again. 'Kiss' is a simple yet evocative exploration of adolescent longing and the confronting realisation that awakened desire cannot go back to sleep

Kiss

2011

Pimped poster
4.6

Over the course of one night, Sarah meets the handsome, captivating and smooth talking Lewis, who aims to be the bait in a sick sexual trap set up by himself and his low-life, rich kid housemate Kenneth. When their ruse backfires, Lewis and Sarah are forced into an unlikely alliance with deadly consequences.

Pimped

2019

Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose poster
8.6

A nightingale bird discovers a true lover when she witnesses a young university student talk with great passion about his beloved. The Nightingale goes on a quest to find the red rose the Student needs win his lovers heart, but this comes at a chilling price. Based on the classic fairytale by Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose

2015

Asthma poster
5.9

A young musician takes a beautiful tattoo artist on a ride in a stolen classic car.

Asthma

2015

Underground: The Julian Assange Story poster
6.3

In 1989, known as Mendax, Julian Assange and two friends formed a group called the International Subversives. Using early home computers and defining themselves as white hat hackers - those who look but don’t steal – they broke into some of the world’s most powerful and secretive organisations. In the eyes of the US Government, they were a major threat to national security.

Underground: The Julian Assange Story

2012

Dark Blue poster
3.0

In the lawless border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an immigrant embarking on an uncertain journey stumbles upon the grisly aftermath of an execution gone awry.

Dark Blue

2023

North of Normal poster
5.6

After being raised in the wilderness, a teenage girl moves to the city hoping for a normal life with her anything but normal mother.

North of Normal

2023

The Alien Boy poster
6.0

Miki is a young Hungarian boy who cannot quite understand why he is always the target of nasty bully-attacks at school. Is it because his Mum speaks a different language. Or because of the weird lunch she packs him? Determined to find out why, Miki embarks on a journey which leads his to discover he is, in fact, an Alien. The Alien Boy is a whimsical ride into a young boys perception of discrimination, alienation and ultimately belonging.

The Alien Boy

2012

The Shed poster
NR

An alcoholic man on the hunt for booze stumbles across something frighteningly familiar in his back shed.

The Shed

2012

Behind the camera