Tara Samuel
Tara Samuel is a Canadian award-winning actor, writer, producer and filmmaker. Canadian Screen Award Nomination for Best Lead Actress in a series for her role "Vangeline Neddeaus" in award-winning CBC original series The Neddeaus of Duqesne Island. Most widely known for her television role "Tara Williams" in long-running series SueThomas: F.B.Eye, which continues to air around the world.
Tara is producer-actor of the films Ruby Booby, Prairie Sonata, and The Rwanda Blend and FIND, written and directed by Tara Samuel and Nominated Best Narrative Short at the Austin Film Festival. Winner, Best Actress for her role "Ruby" in RUBY BOOBY, Manhattan Film Festival. 2021 feature film roles in LUNE, written by Aviva Armour-Ostroff and directed by award-winning co-directors Aviva Armour-Ostroff and Arturo Perrez, and THE MAGNITUDE OF ALL THINGS, written and directed by award winning director Jennifer Abbott.
Tara is published in MovieMakerMagazine online, is co-founder of the renowned Los Angeles film collective wemakemovies.org, and is a professor at George Brown Theatre School in Toronto. She wrote and recorded the kid-empowering children's album Be Who You Are with Paula Tiberius.
Tara's production company Baubo's Plan develops and produces tv and film scripts that illuminate the ferocity and complexity of women's battles and triumphs, with the goal of igniting love and awakening in audiences.