Samantha Barks
Samantha Jane Barks is a British actress and singer who works across stage, film, and television.
She was born on October 2, 1990, in Laxey, and holds citizenship of both the Isle of Man and the United Kingdom. She attended St Ninian's High School, Douglas, for her early education, and later trained at Arts Educational Schools.
Her career covers several distinct performance disciplines. She has worked as a stage actor, a film actor, and a television actor, and she is also active as a singer. That combination of acting and singing runs through her professional life as a whole.
Her work as a performer spans both the dramatic and the vocal, and those two strands appear across the different areas — stage, screen, and television — in which she has been active.
Quotes by Samantha Barks
I absolutely love my fans, and I get to chat to them a lot on Twitter, and that's why I think Twitter is really great. They call themselves 'The Sprouts' and they are really, really wonderful, so passionate, and they make me smile.
Life is all about balance. My work is very important to me, but so are my relationships. I make time for that aspect of my life, and it makes me happy having balance in my life.
I think within what my job is, you always have to find a balance, because this job is also a life choice. You're traveling about; your hours are all over the place. If you're in a show, you're out every night.
I love peas and can happily tuck into a big bowl, but my favourite vegetables are Brussels sprouts. I talk about them so much that my fans call themselves Sam's Sprouts.
I like to walk around Central Park and take in the vibe, have a picnic if the weather is good, and people-watch.
One of my favourite eateries is Beechers Cheese Shop, which does the most incredible toasties.
I'm a vegetarian and have been since I was about four because I struggled to separate the idea of the animal from the food.
You don't realize how much you miss it until you get back onstage and feel that buzz.
When I was growing up in the Isle of Man with ambitions of being a performer, I really wanted to go to see a Broadway show.