Biography
Samantha Spiro is an English actress and singer. She was born on 20 June 1968 in Mill Hill, London, and trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
She is known for her stage work, including playing Barbara Windsor in the play Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick (1998) and its television adaptations Cor, Blimey! (2000) and Babs (2017). On screen she has appeared as Melessa Tarly in Game of Thrones (2016), Josie Clark in Me Before You (2016), Maureen Groff in Sex Education (2019–2023), Esther Rantzen in One Life (2023) and Michelle in Hoard (2024). She has won two Laurence Olivier Awards.
