Samira Fernandes

Samira Fernandes is known for One Piece: Wan pîsu (1999) and Yugioh Slumdog (2004).

Samira Goetschel

Samira Goetschel is an Iranian-born American award-winning filmmaker and a human rights activist. An alumnus of NYU Film School, her graduating film, Clown de la Vie, won Best Short Film at the New York State Film Festival and was a finalist at the Student Academy Awards. She earned her Master of Arts degree at Columbia University. Samira's first documentary, Our Own Private Bin Laden, was named Best Foreign Documentary and Best Film of the Festival at the 2006 European Independent Film Festival in Paris, and won the Audience Award at the International Film Festival in Seoul in 2007. Samira's most recent film, CITY 40, which investigates Russia's largest secret nuclear city was nominated for several awards including: an Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Documentary (2017); a Matter of Act Amnesty International Film of the Year Award; the Human Rights Activist of the Year Award (The Hague, 2017); and a Grand Jury Award at the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival in the UK (2016). CITY 40 is available worldwide on Netflix. Samira's work is concerned with identity politics and politics of fear in societies where the power structure maintains order and control over the population. Her films attempt to disrupt the normative "story" of totalitarian governments with alternative histories and lived experiences of marginalized individuals that remain untold. Her aim is to highlight people's experiences of silence, resistance, and solidarity in films that ultimately empower the individual while creating common space for the audience's critical engagement and reflection on issues that impact their lives and society at large. Samira has served as the head of jury in documentary category in international competitions and as a judge for the Emmy Awards. Her articles have been published in The Guardian and The Huffington Post. She is a member of the International Criminal Court Alliance in Los Angeles (ICCA).

Samira Hchaika

Samira Hchaika is an actress, known for Raltat (2013), Au nom de ma fille (2016) and Dunya & Desie (2008).

Samira Izadi

Samira Izadi is an actress, known for This Is Us (2016), S.W.A.T. (2017) and SEAL Team (2017).

Samira Mekibes Meza

Samira Mekibes Meza is an actress, known for Army of Thieves (2021).

Samira Mohamed Ali

Samira was raised in Dubai with Muhammed, her UAE National father, and Helena, her mother, who originated from Portimao, Portugal. The family moved to Neath, South Wales, UK when Samira was an early teenager. Samira began modelling for international brands in 2002 and won various beauty pageants including the 2009 Miss Europen title. In 2011, Samira made her film debut in the British horror Spirital Phantoma (2012) as Gabrielle and was then cast in the horror film Molly Crows (2013) where she was nominated for an award at Cannes Film Festival for her performance as an alcoholic mother in the film. She was the first Westerner to be cast as the lead role in the Bollywood movie Badshah (2014) and in September 2014 completed filming on the action movie adaptation of the best-selling novel by Welsh author Katherine John By Any Name (2017) where she played the lead role Dr Elizabeth Santer, a bereaved psychiatric Doctor who becomes involved with a game of cat and mouse when a mystery patient takes her hostage and goes on the run. In early 2015, Samira was cast in the US hit TV series Egyptian Vice (2015) followed by lead role in the Bollywood movie BPositive (2017) which is due for release in March 2017. The film is part of a franchise which will see her as back filming early 2017 for the sequel and in 2018 for the third film. Samira is currently working on three new movies which are set for global release in 2017/2018. In all the films, Samira performs her own stunts. Samira is very passionate about the film and television industry as well as maintaining a healthy lifestyle and helping others. She is currently the UK ambassador for children's charity Cerebra and a patron for Llandough Hospital in Cardiff, South Wales.

Samira Radsi

Samira Schoffel

Samira Schoffel is known for Özel Ders (2022).

Samira Sedira

Too rare on our screens, whether big or small, Samira Sedira is more acclaimed as a novelist, playwright and theater performer. Born in Annaba (Algeria) on 29 January 1964, Samira was one of nine siblings. She was only three months old when her parents emigrated to La Seyne-sur-Mer, in the South of France. Chabane, her father, found work as an arc welder at the local shipyards while her mother took care of her numerous children. As for Samira, she proved a good pupil as well as a determined girl, who struggled hard to be allowed to follow a general program in high school rather than a professional one like most immigrants did at the time. She was studying literature at the Aix-en-Provence University when she got to know its theater leader and, willing to fight the boredom she felt there, happily joined the college company. A friend having told her about the Saint-Etienne drama school, she took its entrance exam and passed it. From then on, Samira became very active on the boards, playing a wide range of roles, including men and a... cockroach (you will have recognized Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis') , the latter hidden under a sheet ! An amazing experience, like that of her embodiment of Launcelot Gobbo, the fool of Shakespeare's 'Merchant of Venice'. The performer also has a passion for Greek tragedies, their pure and lofty language and their passionate characters. After two decades of good and loyal services to the theater, roles unfortunately started to dwindle. So much so that in 2008, the devoted actress found out to her dismay that she had lost entitlement to unemployment benefits. The way Samira reacted to that blow of destiny is as surprising as worthy of respect. Married to a teacher and the mother of a young child, she was determined to go on sharing the household expenses and, accordingly, sought a job. With no college graduation she could not expect a trade in keeping with her professional aspirations which is why she became a... cleaning lady; a hard, depressing, unskilled trade. Overcoming her disappointment and bitterness, Samira Sedira gallantly carried out the task for three years. Intrinsically humiliating, the experience was also singular and fruitful in that it helped her to better understand the fate she had escaped thirty years before. And served as the basis for her first novel, 'L'Odeur des planches'. The book got good reviews and sold well. It was even adapted into a play, which marked the return to the theater of Sandrine Bonnaire, no less. In fact, from the worst, the best had been born. Two more novels, "Majda en août" and "La Faute à Saddam", followed, which were well received too.. And oddly enough, role offers were back. Success is the best revenge, as they say. The situation would be ideal only if Samira Sedira's presence in films was more obvious. But her filmography pales in comparison with her theatrography. Not that Samira overlooks her film and television career, quite the contrary. The problem actually stems from the French producers and filmmakers' lack of imagination. The thespian is from the Maghreb and a woman of the Maghreb can only be the mother of a drug dealer or else a... cleaning lady (!) . Her credits nevertheless include two distinguished titles, Luc Besson's farcical crime movie 'Malavita', starring Robert DeNiro, and "La Marche", a fine feelgood movie joyfully branding racism. But Samira Sedira hopes for something better in this field. She is quite right : she deserves better as a film performer. (from an unpublished interview)

Samira Wiley

Samira Wiley was born on April 15, 1987 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Orange Is the New Black (2013), The Sitter (2011) and The Handmaid's Tale (2017). She has been married to Lauren Morelli since March 25, 2017.