Sam Richardson
Biography
Sam Richardson (born January 12, 1984) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Richard Splett in the HBO political comedy series Veep (2012–19), co-creating and co-starring in the Comedy Central comedy series Detroiters (2017–18) alongside Tim Robinson, and for playing various characters in the Netflix sketch show I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (2019–present), Aniq Adjaye in the Apple TV+ series The Afterparty (2022–23), and Norville Rogers in the Max series Velma (2023–24). In 2022 and 2023, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance as Edwin Akufo in Ted Lasso, winning the 2023 award in this category. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Richardson (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Somebody I Used to Know
as Dar
2023
Hocus Pocus 2
as Gilbert
2022
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
as Uncle Brill (voice)
2023
Horrible Bosses 2
as Producer
2014
Star Trek: Section 31
as Quasi
2025
Haunted
as Father Brian
2022
Monkey Quest
as (voice)
TBA
The 4:30 Movie
as Major Murder
2024
Let's Have Kids!
as Ben
TBA
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
as Eric
2016
Office Christmas Party
as Joel
2016
Spy
as John
2015
Ghostbusters
as Basement Cop
2016
All-Stars
as Ramel Johnson
2014
The Night Is Young
as Sam
2018
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
as Eric Baiers
2016
The House
as Marty
2017
Game Over, Man!
as Donald
2018
We're the Millers
as TSA Agent
2013
A Legendary Christmas with John & Chrissy
as Self
2018
TV Appearances
Room 104
as Greg
2017
The Afterparty
as Aniq
2022
HouseBroken
as Chico (voice)
2021
Marvel's M.O.D.O.K.
as Gary Garoldson (voice)
2021
Mulligan
as Simon Prioleau (voice)
2023
Dream Corp LLC
as Patient 44
2016
A Black Lady Sketch Show
as Joe
2019
Ted Lasso
as Edwin Akufo
2020
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
as Pacific Proposal Parks Owner
2019
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
as Dan
2019
Hoops
as Marcus (voice)
2020
Clone High
as Wesley (voice)
2023