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Samantha Quan
Born 1975-09-02 · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Samantha Quan is an actress and writer. She won the Academy Award for Best Picture alongside her husband Sean Baker for Anora in 2025.
Acting credits
6.9It's the battle of wills, as Andie needs to prove she can dump a guy in 10 days, whereas Ben needs to prove he can win a girl in 10 days. Now, the clock is ticking—and the wildly entertaining comedy smash is off and running in this irresistible tale of sex, lies and outrageous romantic fireworks!
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
2003
8.3An interesting featurette which has some good behind the scenes footage, including early location scouting, table reads and interactions with the often near out of control kids.
Under the Rainbow: Making The Florida Project
2018
4.1Romantic comedy taking a lighthearted look at a wedding planning business run by a Honolulu mom and three daughters from three different dads. Triple-divorcee Miriam is having her own lack of luck in love, her eldest daughter Lily heads home after rejecting her boyfriend's marriage proposal and her two half-sisters are running the business into the ground.
4 Wedding Planners
2011
NRAn ambitious female news producer and her colleagues navigate the tumultuous waters of a Washington network news bureau.
Inside the Box
2009
5.3A sarcastic and self-deprecating Asian-American must take his naive Japanese cousin on a road trip along the California coast to find his ex-girlfriend.
Sake-Bomb
2013
4.6Mikaela is a successful romance novelist who has had bad luck in love, visits a quaint bed and breakfast for a Christmas writer's retreat near a snowy lake town each year. Upon arriving, she meets dashing writer Levi, who soon convinces Mikaela that she shouldn't be writing about love, if she doesn't allow herself to get out and actually experience it.
Writing Around the Christmas Tree
2021
GOOD GRIEF is a dark comedy about eight estranged friends who return to their childhood hometown in order to attend the funeral of their best friend, comic artist Cory Burns. The film explores the unique qualities and dysfunctions of these friends who, even before they unpack their bags, discover they each have become a stark contrast to their nostalgic childhood that Cory based his comic on.
Good Grief
2017
Behind the camera
7.1A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out to get the marriage annulled.
Anora
2024
6.8After hitting rock bottom in Los Angeles, former porn star Mikey Saber returns to his hometown in Texas to stay with his estranged wife and mother-in-law. Just as tensions begin to ease, he becomes infatuated with a young doughnut shop worker named Strawberry.
Red Rocket
2021
6.0In a night market, five characters recount their own unique story and represent a facet of Malaysian culture rarely explored.
Sandiwara
2026
NRDescribed as a "love letter to the Italian sex comedies of the ’60s and ’70s." Plot TBA.
Ti Amo!
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