Samantha Spiro
Biography
Samantha Spiro (born 20 June 1968) is an English actress and singer. She played Barbara Windsor in the stage play Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick and the television films Cor, Blimey! and Babs, D.I. Vivien Friend in M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team, Melessa Tarly in the HBO series Game of Thrones, and Maureen Groff in Sex Education. She has won two Laurence Olivier Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Samantha Spiro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Appearances

Pops
as Roz Jacobs
2021

Cor, Blimey!
as Barbara Windsor
2000

A Running Jump
as Debbie
2012

One Life
as Esther Rantzen
2023

Hoard
as Michelle
2024

Where Is Anne Frank
as Edith Frank (voice)
2021

Something Else
as Judith
TBA

Panto!
as Di
2012

Macbeth - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
as Lady Macbeth
2014

Tomorrow La Scala!
as Jayney (Mrs. Lovett)
2002

From Hell
as Martha Tabram
2001

Beyond Bedlam
as WPC Foster
1994

Me Before You
as Josie Clark
2016

Carnage: Swallowing the Past
as Edith Paper
2017

Babs
as Babs
2017

Grandpa's Great Escape
as Patricia
2018

Lady Windermere's Fan
as Mrs Erlynne
2018

Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
as Mrs Felix
2019

Taming of the Shrew
as Katherina
2013

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
as Red Lady (voice)
2002
TV Appearances

Murder Investigation Team
as DI Vivien Friend
2003

Semi-Detached
as Kate
2020

Grandma's House
as Auntie Liz
2010

Inside No. 9
as Sue
2014

Ridley Road
as Liza Epstein
2021

Coupling
as Jeffina
2000

Game of Thrones
as Melessa Tarly
2011

Still Up
as Christine
2023

Bad Education
as Pro Green
2012

Doctor Who
as Hazran
2005

The Larkins
as Bertha
2021

Plebs
as Sylvia
2013
