Samantha Weinstein

Acting

Samantha Weinstein

Born — Died

1995-03-20 — 2023-05-14

Place of birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Known for

Acting

Credits

41 titles

Samantha Weinstein (born March 20, 1995) was an actress and singer. A prolific voice actor, she worked in many children's cartoons. She was also a singer and guitarist in the garage rock band Killer Virgins Weinstein was married to Michael Knutson from October 29, 2022.

Known for

The Red Green Show poster
7.5

The Red Green Show is a Canadian television comedy that aired on various channels in Canada, with its ultimate home at CBC Television, and on Public Broadcasting Service stations in the United States, from 1991 until the series finale April 7, 2006, on CBC. The Red Green Show is essentially a cross between a sitcom and a sketch comedy series, and is a parody of home improvement, do-it-yourself, fishing, and other outdoors shows.

The Red Green Show

1991

Carrie poster
6.1

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.

Carrie

2013

Babar and the Adventures of Badou poster
4.3

An updated version of the classic series, following King Babar, and Badou, his 8-year-old grandson.

Babar and the Adventures of Badou

2010

Being Erica poster
6.6

Erica Strange has tons of regrets in her young life - so many she's started a list. But when she shares her list with her therapist, he undertakes an unusual course of treatment: she is transported back in time and given the chance to make different decisions at pivotal moments in her life, based on her knowledge of the here and now.

Being Erica

2009

The Rocker poster
6.1

In the 1980s, a drummer is abandoned by his band just before they become rock superstars. Twenty years later, the drummer sees his second chance at stardom arise when he is asked to perform with his teenage nephew's high school rock band.

The Rocker

2008

Super Why! poster
7.1

Super Why! or The Reading Adventures of Super Why! is a CGI animated show developed by Angela C. Santomero and Samantha Freeman Alpert. The TV series is produced by New York City-based Out of the Blue Enterprises and Toronto-based DHX Media through its Decode Entertainment division. The show debuted on PBS stations on September 3, 2007. The series airs on PBS Kids and PBS Kids Sprout in the USA, Kids' CBC in Canada. Thai PBS from Thailand broadcasts the shortened version, the episodes are 5 years behind the U.S.

Super Why!

2007

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

2000s · 10 titles

The Rocker poster
6.1

In the 1980s, a drummer is abandoned by his band just before they become rock superstars. Twenty years later, the drummer sees his second chance at stardom arise when he is asked to perform with his teenage nephew's high school rock band.

The Rocker

2008

The Stone Angel poster
5.4

The feisty aging Hagar Shipley has lived an unconventional life. Her rebellious heart has always ruled and her choices have put her at odds with family and friends. Faced with her own mortality, and desperate to find solace, she goes on the run. In both the past and the present, she is forced to come to terms with the pain and pleasure, the disappointments and the exhilarations of her life.

The Stone Angel

2007

Swarmed poster
4.3

Residents of a small town find themselves battling a swarm of wasps which has been sprayed by a super pesticide.

Swarmed

2005

Céline poster
5.2

A biopic on singer Céline Dion.

Céline

2008

Big Girl poster
7.0

Playfully competing with Mom's new boyfriend, nine-year-old Josephine learns that letting people in can lead to wonderful things.

Big Girl

2005

The Winning Season poster
6.3

THE WINNING SEASON tells the story of a legendary baseball player's struggle to choose between the love of his life and his love of the game. In the film, 12 year-old baseball fanatic Joe Soshack finds a mint condition Honus Wagner baseball card that magically takes him back to the 1909 World Series.

The Winning Season

2004

Siblings poster
5.1

Joe and his siblings have a couple of problems. First off, their stepparents are despicably evil. Secondly, they seemed to have killed them. Now this mixed up mess of half-sisters and step-brothers have to figure out how to dispose of the bodies, cover up the murders, collect their grandfather's inheritance and somehow stick together as a family -- all without getting caught. Not to mention Joe's incessant need to keep tabs on his promiscuous sister, an eye on the precocious little ones and a lustful watch on the girl next-door. Growing up has its complications. Murder's just one of them.

Siblings

2004

Toronto Stories poster
3.5

Various lives intersect over the course of 48 hours in Canada's largest and most culturally diverse city.

Toronto Stories

2008

Ninth Street Chronicles poster
NR

It is summer in the 1980s, and ten-year-old Sara's whole world is her front yard and the park at the end of the street. With her parents consumed in domestic battles, Sara experiences life uncensored. She glimpses sex, both gorgeous and awful, and broken hearts, one of them, her own. When Sara's idea of fun gets her forbidden from everyone her own age, Sara finds her way into the lives of two older boys; boys who, like Sara, are ill-fitting neighborhood legends.

Ninth Street Chronicles

2007

No artwork available
NR

About Maggie Hill

Maggie Hill

2009

Series credits

The Red Green Show poster
7.5

The Red Green Show is a Canadian television comedy that aired on various channels in Canada, with its ultimate home at CBC Television, and on Public Broadcasting Service stations in the United States, from 1991 until the series finale April 7, 2006, on CBC. The Red Green Show is essentially a cross between a sitcom and a sketch comedy series, and is a parody of home improvement, do-it-yourself, fishing, and other outdoors shows.

The Red Green Show

1991

Babar and the Adventures of Badou poster
4.3

An updated version of the classic series, following King Babar, and Badou, his 8-year-old grandson.

Babar and the Adventures of Badou

2010

Being Erica poster
6.6

Erica Strange has tons of regrets in her young life - so many she's started a list. But when she shares her list with her therapist, he undertakes an unusual course of treatment: she is transported back in time and given the chance to make different decisions at pivotal moments in her life, based on her knowledge of the here and now.

Being Erica

2009

Super Why! poster
7.1

Super Why! or The Reading Adventures of Super Why! is a CGI animated show developed by Angela C. Santomero and Samantha Freeman Alpert. The TV series is produced by New York City-based Out of the Blue Enterprises and Toronto-based DHX Media through its Decode Entertainment division. The show debuted on PBS stations on September 3, 2007. The series airs on PBS Kids and PBS Kids Sprout in the USA, Kids' CBC in Canada. Thai PBS from Thailand broadcasts the shortened version, the episodes are 5 years behind the U.S.

Super Why!

2007

Super Why! poster
7.1

Super Why! or The Reading Adventures of Super Why! is a CGI animated show developed by Angela C. Santomero and Samantha Freeman Alpert. The TV series is produced by New York City-based Out of the Blue Enterprises and Toronto-based DHX Media through its Decode Entertainment division. The show debuted on PBS stations on September 3, 2007. The series airs on PBS Kids and PBS Kids Sprout in the USA, Kids' CBC in Canada. Thai PBS from Thailand broadcasts the shortened version, the episodes are 5 years behind the U.S.

Super Why!

2007

Burden of Truth poster
7.4

A big city lawyer returns to her hometown to take the case of a group of girls suffering from a mysterious illness.

Burden of Truth

2018

Alias Grace poster
7.2

Based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder yet the facts are irrefutable. A decade after, Dr. Simon Jordan tries to help Grace recall her past.

Alias Grace

2017

Copper poster
6.1

Kevin Corcoran is a rugged young Irish immigrant policeman trying to keep the peace in the historical Five Points neighborhood in 1860s New York City while searching for information on the disappearance of his wife and death of his daughter.

Copper

2012

The Border poster
6.0

The Border is a Canadian drama that aired on CBC Television and 20 other TV networks worldwide. It was created by Peter Raymont, Lindalee Tracey, Janet MacLean and Jeremy Hole of White Pine Pictures. The Executive in Charge of Production is Janice Dawe. Episodes in the first season were directed by John Fawcett, Michael DeCarlo, Ken Girotti, Kelly Makin, Brett Sullivan and Philip Earnshaw. The first season had a total budget of 20 million dollars, with about 1.5 million dollars per episode. The series is set in Toronto and follows agents of the fictitious Immigration and Customs Security agency. ICS was created by the Government of Canada to deal with trans-border matters concerning Canadian national security including terrorism and smuggling. The cancellation of The Border was announced by the CBC after three seasons were aired.

The Border

2008

Wishfart poster
5.8

Dez is a young cool rebel-Leprechaun with rookie wish-granting powers, who has wild misadventures as he and his friends, a Japanese ghost girl named Akiko and a puffin called Puffin, scramble to undo the consequences of wishes (wishfarts) gone fantastically out of control

Wishfart

2017

No artwork available
NR

Magictopia is a show about three kids who live in a magical realm and discover all kinds of wonderful things, and help everyone along the way.

Magictopia

2011

Dino Ranch poster
5.6

Dino Ranch follows the adventures of the Cassidy family as they tackle life in a fantastical "pre-westoric" setting where dinosaurs still roam. As the young ranchers learn the ropes, they discover the thrill of ranch life whilst navigating the great outdoors through unpredictable challenges.

Dino Ranch

2021

Wild Card poster
5.4

Wild Card is an American comedy-drama series starring Joely Fisher. It was broadcast in the United States on Lifetime, and on the Global Television Network in Canada from August 2003 to July 2005.

Wild Card

2003

Let's Go Luna! poster
7.2

Luna the moon guides three friends -- a wombat, a butterfly and a frog -- as they visit new places around the world with their parents' traveling performance troupe.

Let's Go Luna!

2018

The ZhuZhus poster
8.0

Frankie Pamplemousse, an energetic 8-year-old girl, lives in Anytown with her four talking, extraordinary hamsters; Pipsqueak, Mr. Squiggles, Num Nums, and Chunk.

The ZhuZhus

2016

Less Than Kind poster
7.0

Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel Meldrum as Sheldon's parents, Benjamin Arthur as his older brother Josh, and Nancy Sorel as his aunt, Clara. The Blechers struggle to operate a driving school out of their home in Winnipeg's fading North End. Less Than Kind made its debut October 13, 2008, on Citytv, and moved to HBO Canada in February 2010. The ensemble cast of the critically acclaimed series won Canadian Comedy Awards in 2009 and 2010.Less Than Kind received the 2010 Gemini Award for Best Comedy Program or Series and the inaugural award for Best Comedy Series at the 2013 Canadian Screen Awards. The title sequence and logo for Less Than Kind were inspired by an iconic highway sign at Winnipeg's Confusion Corner intersection, depicting arrows pointing in every direction. The name of the series is found in the first line spoken by Hamlet: "A little more than kin, and less than kind."

Less Than Kind

2008

No artwork available
7.0

Follows three teenagers who are just beginning to transition towards adulthood.

FLCL Grunge

2023

D.N. Ace poster
NR

Adventure-loving 12-year-old Ripley, learns that he possesses the ability to manipulate DNA, to create new beings.

D.N. Ace

2019

72 Hours: True Crime poster
6.6

72 Hours: True Crime focuses on crime, specifically on the first 72 hours after a crime is committed, a critical time period for solving it. Rather than focus on fictional crimes, as do Law & Order and other TV shows elsewhere, True Crime depicted actual crimes that occurred throughout Canada, using dramatic reenactments and documentary-style footage of crime scenes.

72 Hours: True Crime

2004

Gerald McBoing-Boing poster
7.6

Gerald McBoing-Boing is an original Canadian-American 2D animated children's television series based on the original cartoon. It premiered on Cartoon Network on August 22, 2005, as part of their Tickle-U programming block, and on Teletoon in English and French on August 29, 2005. It uses the same basic art style as the original, but with more detail. Each 11-minute episode features a series of vignettes with Gerald, of which the "fantasy tales" are done in Seussian rhyme. There are also sound checks, gags, and "real-life" portions of the show. Gerald still only makes sounds, but he now has two speaking friends, Janine and Jacob, as well as a dog named Burp, who only burps. Gerald's parents also fill out the regular cast. The television series was produced in Canada by Cookie Jar Entertainment, and directed by Robin Budd and story edited/written by John Derevlany. The animation was done by Mercury Filmworks in Ottawa & Vancouver. The music and score for the series was composed by Ray Parker and Tom Szczesniak. It is shown on ABC TV in Australia, Channel 5's Milkshake! in the UK and RTE Two's The Den in Ireland

Gerald McBoing-Boing

2005

Mittens & Pants poster
NR

Best friends Mittens the kitten and Pants the puppy go on adventures in the all-animal town of Kibble Corners. Despite being a dog and a cat, they are the best of friends because they accept that they are different.

Mittens & Pants

2023

Kingdom Force poster
NR

A 3D-animated action series for kids ages 3-6, KINGDOM FORCE follows the fast-paced exploits of five mighty animal heroes as they serve and protect the citizens of five unique animal kingdoms.

Kingdom Force

2019

Riley Rocket poster
NR

Riley Rocket is an action-packed, music-filled comedy about Riley and her band, Megablast, who gain supersonic powers when the volume is cranked up during a jam session, causing an electrifying sonic surge. Now they are secret superheroes who use the power of music to save the day.

Riley Rocket

2023

No artwork available
9.0

At the Hotel is a Canadian drama-comedy-musical mini-series concerning the goings-on at an illustrious Montreal hotel, known for its favourable treatment of struggling artists. Created by Ken Finkleman and produced by One Hundred Percent Television, the series aired on CBC Television in 2006. The music is composed by Robert Carli. This is the only Ken Finkleman production in which he did not cast himself as a character. He does however make a very brief on-screen appearance as a member of the crew shooting a music video in the hotel.

At the Hotel

2006

Darknet poster
6.8

A macabre web site called Darknet links the tales in this chilling anthology series whose protagonists face a range of unnamable horrors.

Darknet

2013

No artwork available
8.0

XPM was a short-lived Canadian sitcom broadcast in 2004 on CBC Television. It was centred around shamed former Prime Minister Bennett Macdonald who was trying to adjust to a life where the best job he could find was at a small law firm in a shopping mall.

XPM

2004