Samantha Mathis
Samantha Mathis ( born May 12, 1970 in New York City ) is an American actress.
Life and career
Mathis was born in Brooklyn. Her mother, Bibi Besch, was an Austrian actress who emigrated to the U.S. at the beginning of the 1960s. Therefore, it is also the granddaughter of Gusti Huber. At the age of three years, Mathis experienced the divorce of their parents and remained with the mother. When she was five, Mathis was residing with her mother in Los Angeles County, California. Inspired by her mother, Mathis later also become an actress decided at the age of twelve.
This she could reach the age of sixteen years and get first minor roles in television series. She played her first major role in the film Pump Up the Volume (1990 ), in which she starred opposite Christian Slater. For her role in the film Showtime - Help, my mom is a Star (1992 ), in which she starred with Carrie Fisher and Dan Aykroyd, she was nominated for the Young Artist Award. In the film, The Thing Called Love - The decision for life (1993 ) by Peter Bogdanovich, she played alongside River Phoenix, with whom she had a relationship with and accompanied the night of his death.
In 1994, she starred in the movie drama Little Women one of the March sisters. In 1995, she was seen in the romance Hello, Mr. President alongside Michael Douglas as his assistant. Once again, she played the role of a national park guard in the movie operation next Slater - Broken Arrow (1996 ) by John Woo. In 2000, she acted in a supporting role in American Psycho and 2001 in The Mists of Avalon in the role of Gwenhwyfar. In 2004, she introduced in the comic book adaptation The Punisher in a supporting role, the wife of the title character dar.
In the second part of the film adaptation of Ayn Rand 's bestseller Atlas the world discards (Atlas Shrugged ) she played in 2012 in one of the main roles Dagny Taggart.
Through its Austrian origin Mathis speaks fluent German. She is a vegetarian and a good friend of Sandra Bullock, with whom she in The Thing Called Love - had played together The decision for life.