Biography
Samantha Mathis (born May 12, 1970) is an American actress and trade union leader who serves as the Vice President of SAG-AFTRA. Mathis made her film debut in Pump Up the Volume (1990), and later co-starred or appeared in such films as FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992), Super Mario Bros. (1993), The Thing Called Love (1993), Little Women (1994), The American President (1995), Broken Arrow (1996), American Psycho (2000), and Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012).
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Complete Filmography

Isle Child
2025
as Carey Miller
When a Korean-American adoptee discovers his birthmother is terminally ill, he must decide whether to preserve his American identity or uncover his va...

By Design
2025
as Lisa
A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair.

The Exorcism
2024
as Jennifer Simon
A troubled actor begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror film, leading his estranged daughter to wonder if he's slipping back into his ...

Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
2023
as Kathy Crandall
In 1969, young Jud Crandall has dreams of leaving his hometown behind, but soon discovers sinister secrets buried within and is forced to confront a d...

12 Desperate Hours
2023
as Val
It centers on Val who finds herself and her young children held hostage by Denny when he forces his way into her house after committing murder that da...

Being Frank
2019
as Bonnie
A seventeen-year-old boy blackmails his father after discovering his secret second family

All That We Destroy
2019
as Dr. Victoria Harris
A geneticist who fears that her son may be becoming a serial killer creates a group of clones in an attempt to cure him of his psychopathic tendencies...

The Clovehitch Killer
2018
as Cindy
A picture-perfect family is torn apart after Tyler finds a cache of disturbing images in his father's possession. He begins to suspect that the man he...

Boarding School
2018
as Isabel
When troubled 12-year-old Jacob Felsen is sent away to boarding school, he enters every kid’s worst nightmare: a creepy old mansion, deserted except f...

Ray Meets Helen
2018
as Mary
Two lonely strangers who are struggling in life cross paths with each other under unusual circumstances and get a chance to start over.

American Pastoral
2016
as Penny Hamlin
Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their fam...

Affluenza
2014
as Bunny Miller
An aspiring young photographer finds himself caught up in a heady world of money, sex, and privilege when he moves to wealthy Long Island in the summe...

Atlas Shrugged: Part II
2012
as Dagny Taggart
Railroad owner Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden search desperately for the inventor of a revolutionary motor as the U.S. government continu...

Camilla Dickinson
2012
as Rose Dickinson
Fifteen-year-old Camilla Dickinson leads a sheltered life in New York City until her parents' marriage begins to fall apart.

Unanswered Prayers
2012
as Lorrie Beck
After his football career, Ben Beck returned to his Virginia small town and joined the family building firm. His family happiness with wife Lorrie and...

Lebanon, Pa.
2011
as Vicki
Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with C...

Good Day for It
2011
as Sarah Bryant
A man forced to abandon his wife and daughter years earlier must risk his life to settle an old score and reunite his family.

Buried
2010
as Linda Conroy (voice)
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lig...

Order of Chaos
2010
as Jennifer
Almost rich, almost thirty, he never lies or cheats, even when his beautiful fiancé orders him around and his ball-busting boss uses threats as motiva...

The New Daughter
2009
as Cassandra
John James is a writer; his wife has left him. He moves with his two middle-school children to an isolated house off a dirt road in South Carolina. Th...

Local Color
2008
as Carla
A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A talented but troubled 18-year-old aspiring artist befr...

Mitch Albom's For One More Day
2007
as Young Pauline "Posey" Benetto
While back in his hometown, a suicidal former baseball player encounters the spirit of his deceased mother, who takes him on a sentimental tour meant ...

A Stranger's Heart
2007
as Callie Morgan
Man and woman (Peter Dobson and Samantha Mathis) fall in love in a heart transplant facility. They are both attracted to a little girl (Mary Matilyn M...

Absolution
2006
as Bettina Lloyd
For 10 years, a journalist has avoided visiting her small hometown. When news spreads about a comatose man healing people from his home, she is sent t...

Believe in Me
2006
as Jean Driscoll
In a conservative small town, a young man's wish to coach high school basketball are tweaked by a school board decision that makes him the new coach o...

Touched
2005
as Jeannie Bates
A devoted nurse falls in love with a formerly comatose patient who has lost his sense of touch.

Kids in America
2005
as Jennifer Rose
Inspired by real events, this ribald comedy pits an unlikely gang of students against their principal after she bars safe-sex activities on campus. Pr...

Fathers and Sons
2005
as Jenny
Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Antho...

The Punisher
2004
as Maria Castle
When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length t...

Searching for Debra Winger
2002
as Self
Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.

The Simian Line
2001
as Mae
The Simian Line is an American improvisational film, released in 2001. When Katharine throws a party on Halloween, a psychic called Arnita predicts th...

Attraction
2001
as Corey
A writer/radio advice show host fails to heed his own advice as he stalks his ex-girlfriend and then becomes involved with an actress friend of hers.

Mermaid
2000
as Rhonda
Four year old Desi learns to accept the death of her father by sending him a letter on a balloon to which she receives a reply. Based on a true story.

American Psycho
2000
as Courtney Rawlinson
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his i...

Freak City
1999
as Ruth
After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, a rebellious young woman is disease-stricken. Upon being admitted to a nursing home, she finds hope in ...

Sweet Jane
1998
as Jane
Jane, an HIV-positive heroin addict, meets Tony, a young AIDS victim with no family, and the two form a bond.

Museum of Love
1996
as Stephanie
Dumped by his girlfriend, a young unemployed actor decides to transform his house into a "museum" of their relationship.

Broken Arrow
1996
as Terry Carmichael
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warhea...

The American President
1995
as Janie Basdin
Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wa...

How to Make an American Quilt
1995
as Young Sophia
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits ...

Jack & Sarah
1995
as Amy
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. Howev...

Little Women
1994
as Older Amy March
With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a c...

The Thing Called Love
1993
as Miranda Presley
A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom.

The Music of Chance
1993
as Tiffany
Two men face the consequences of gambling after playing with men beyond their league.

Super Mario Bros.
1993
as Daisy
Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only ho...

FernGully: The Last Rainforest
1992
as Crysta (voice)
When a sprite named Crysta shrinks a human boy, Zak, down to her size, he vows to help the magical fairy folk stop a greedy logging company from destr...

This Is My Life
1992
as Erica Ingels
Single mom Dottie Ingels sells cosmetics in a department store, but she dreams of being a comedian. When she inherits some money, she takes the chance...

To My Daughter
1990
as Anne Carlston
A mother is haunted by the death of one of her children which has an effect on the surviving siblings in this fact-based drama.

83 Hours 'Til Dawn
1990
as Julie Burdock
A wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped and placed in a box with air for only 83 hours.

Extreme Close-Up
1990
as Laura
Innovative drama mixing film and video, with a teenager obsessed with watching his late mother, killed in an auto accident, on tapes he recorded of th...

Pump Up the Volume
1990
as Nora Diniro
Mark Hunter, a lonely high school student, uses his shortwave radio to moonlight as the popular pirate DJ "Hard Harry." When his show gets blamed for ...

Cold Sassy Tree
1989
as Lightfoot McClendon
In the early 20th century, an independent lady from up North causes a scandal when she decides to wed an older local general-store owner just three we...

Forbidden Sun
1988
as Paula
Olympic gymnastics coach Francine Lake and her twelve gorgeous students train on the Island of Crete. The rigors of training preclude most sexual acti...