Samantha Weinstein

Actor

March 20, 1995 (28 years)

† May 14, 2023

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Biography

Samantha Weinstein (born March 20, 1995) was an actress and singer. A prolific voice actor, she worked in many children's cartoons. She was also a singer and guitarist in the garage rock band Killer Virgins Weinstein was married to Michael Knutson from October 29, 2022.

Filmography

7.5

The Red Green Show

Sam the Brownie

The Red Green Show is a Canadian television comedy that aired on various channels in Canada, with its ultimate home at CBC Television, and on Public Broadcasting Service stations in the United States, from 1991 until the series finale April 7, 2006, on CBC. The Red Green Show is essentially a cross between a sitcom and a sketch comedy series, and is a parody of home improvement, do-it-yourself, fishing, and other outdoors shows.

7.1

Super Why!

Thumbelina (voice)

Super Why! or The Reading Adventures of Super Why! is a CGI animated show developed by Angela C. Santomero and Samantha Freeman Alpert. The TV series is produced by New York City-based Out of the Blue Enterprises and Toronto-based DHX Media through its Decode Entertainment division. The show debuted on PBS stations on September 3, 2007. The series airs on PBS Kids and PBS Kids Sprout in the USA, Kids' CBC in Canada. Thai PBS from Thailand broadcasts the shortened version, the episodes are 5 years behind the U.S.

6.7

Being Erica

Young Erica

Erica Strange has tons of regrets in her young life - so many she's started a list. But when she shares her list with her therapist, he undertakes an unusual course of treatment: she is transported back in time and given the chance to make different decisions at pivotal moments in her life, based on her knowledge of the here and now.

7.4

Burden of Truth

Catherine

A big city lawyer returns to her hometown to take the case of a group of girls suffering from a mysterious illness.

5.4

Wild Card

Young Zoe

Wild Card is an American comedy-drama series starring Joely Fisher. It was broadcast in the United States on Lifetime, and on the Global Television Network in Canada from August 2003 to July 2005.

4.3

Babar and the Adventures of Badou

Chiku (voice)

An updated version of the classic series, following King Babar, and Badou, his 8-year-old grandson.

7.2

Alias Grace

Effie

Based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder yet the facts are irrefutable. A decade after, Dr. Simon Jordan tries to help Grace recall her past.

6.1

Copper

Kayleigh O'Connor

Kevin Corcoran is a rugged young Irish immigrant policeman trying to keep the peace in the historical Five Points neighborhood in 1860s New York City while searching for information on the disappearance of his wife and death of his daughter.

6.0

The Border

Katie Johanson

The Border is a Canadian drama that aired on CBC Television and 20 other TV networks worldwide. It was created by Peter Raymont, Lindalee Tracey, Janet MacLean and Jeremy Hole of White Pine Pictures. The Executive in Charge of Production is Janice Dawe. Episodes in the first season were directed by John Fawcett, Michael DeCarlo, Ken Girotti, Kelly Makin, Brett Sullivan and Philip Earnshaw. The first season had a total budget of 20 million dollars, with about 1.5 million dollars per episode. The series is set in Toronto and follows agents of the fictitious Immigration and Customs Security agency. ICS was created by the Government of Canada to deal with trans-border matters concerning Canadian national security including terrorism and smuggling. The cancellation of The Border was announced by the CBC after three seasons were aired.

6.1

Carrie

Heather

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.

8.0

The ZhuZhus

Mindy Gelato (voice)

Frankie Pamplemousse, an energetic 8-year-old girl, lives in Anytown with her four talking, extraordinary hamsters; Pipsqueak, Mr. Squiggles, Num Nums, and Chunk.

7.0

Less Than Kind

Jen

Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel Meldrum as Sheldon's parents, Benjamin Arthur as his older brother Josh, and Nancy Sorel as his aunt, Clara. The Blechers struggle to operate a driving school out of their home in Winnipeg's fading North End. Less Than Kind made its debut October 13, 2008, on Citytv, and moved to HBO Canada in February 2010. The ensemble cast of the critically acclaimed series won Canadian Comedy Awards in 2009 and 2010.Less Than Kind received the 2010 Gemini Award for Best Comedy Program or Series and the inaugural award for Best Comedy Series at the 2013 Canadian Screen Awards. The title sequence and logo for Less Than Kind were inspired by an iconic highway sign at Winnipeg's Confusion Corner intersection, depicting arrows pointing in every direction. The name of the series is found in the first line spoken by Hamlet: "A little more than kin, and less than kind."

5.6

Dino Ranch

Clara Tinhorn (voice)

Dino Ranch follows the adventures of the Cassidy family as they tackle life in a fantastical "pre-westoric" setting where dinosaurs still roam. As the young ranchers learn the ropes, they discover the thrill of ranch life whilst navigating the great outdoors through unpredictable challenges.

7.2

Let's Go Luna!

Gina (voice)

Luna the moon guides three friends -- a wombat, a butterfly and a frog -- as they visit new places around the world with their parents' traveling performance troupe.

N/A

Mittens & Pants

Ms. McRooster (voice)

Best friends Mittens the kitten and Pants the puppy go on adventures in the all-animal town of Kibble Corners. Despite being a dog and a cat, they are the best of friends because they accept that they are different.

6.6

72 Hours: True Crime

Lindsay

72 Hours: True Crime focuses on crime, specifically on the first 72 hours after a crime is committed, a critical time period for solving it. Rather than focus on fictional crimes, as do Law & Order and other TV shows elsewhere, True Crime depicted actual crimes that occurred throughout Canada, using dramatic reenactments and documentary-style footage of crime scenes.

5.8

Wishfart

Finnuala (voice)

Dez is a young cool rebel-Leprechaun with rookie wish-granting powers, who has wild misadventures as he and his friends, a Japanese ghost girl named Akiko and a puffin called Puffin, scramble to undo the consequences of wishes (wishfarts) gone fantastically out of control

6.0

The Rocker

Violet

In the 1980s, a drummer is abandoned by his band just before they become rock superstars. Twenty years later, the drummer sees his second chance at stardom arise when he is asked to perform with his teenage nephew's high school rock band.

N/A

D.N. Ace

Sloane Plunderman (voice)

Adventure-loving 12-year-old Ripley, learns that he possesses the ability to manipulate DNA, to create new beings.

6.1

Haunter

Frances Nichols

A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.