Actor Samantha Mathis

Samantha Mathis

1970 (55 лет)
Samantha Mathis (born May 12, 1970) is an American actress and trade union leader who served as Vice President of the Actors/Performers of SAG-AFTRA from 2015 to 2019. She is known for her roles in films like Pump Up the Volume (1990), FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992), Super Mario Bros. (1993), and American Psycho (2000). Recently, she had recurring roles in The Strain and Billions.

Born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to actress Bibi Besch and Donald Mathis, she was raised in Los Angeles after her parents divorced. Despite her mother's initial resistance to her acting ambitions, Mathis pursued her passion and decided to become an actress at twelve.

Mathis dated actor River Phoenix, whom she met on the set of The Thing Called Love (1993). She was with him on the night of his death from a drug overdose in 1993, and later discussed the experience publicly for the first time in 2018, expressing her discomfort with the circumstances surrounding his drug use.