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Samantha Béart is an English actor best known for voicing Thomasina Bateman in The Excavation of Hob's Barrow and Karlach in Baldur's Gate 3.
==Career==
In 2005, Béart played Arthur Dent’s daughter, Random Dent, in BBC Radio 4’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Quintessential Phase.> Since then, they have starred in numerous audio dramas and video games.
In 2020, they played Calliope in an audio adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman produced by Audible Studios. They also played Rogue in The Solitaire Conspiracy, developed by Mike Bithell Games.
In 2022, they played Thomasina Bateman in The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, for which they were longlisted for a BAFTA Games Award in the “Performer in a Leading Role” category. They subsequently applied for and received a BAFTA Breakthrough Award.
In 2023, they played Karlach in Baldur's Gate 3, developed by Larian Studios. The game was considered a great commercial success and their performance as Karlach led to another BAFTA nomination, again for the “Performer in a Leading Role” category.</ref> Béart reprised their role as Karlach in various Dungeons & Dragons actual play shows, including a one-shot with Mark Hulmes of High Rollers and “Love is a Legendary Action,” a live 50th-anniversary one-shot performed at Gen Con in 2024.
==Personal Life==
Béart attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama after receiving invitations from various acting schools but struggled to find roles after graduating due in part to their mixed-race heritage. Speaking about this time, Béart, who is of mixed Irish and Jamaican descent, said that casting directors claimed that they “didn’t look British” and suggested that they “pass for ethnicities that [weren’t their] own because [they] didn’t look Jamaican-Irish.” Difficulty landing theatrical and on-screen roles eventually led them to pursue roles in audio dramas.
Béart is non-binary and uses she/they pronouns. In an interview with Gayming Magazine, they partially credit their role as Orr, a nonbinary character in Big Finish’s Torchwood who uses they/them pronouns, for helping them come to this realization.
==Filmography==
===Audio===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes 	
2005 	The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Quintessential Phase	Random Dent 	Radio Drama	
2013 	Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures 	Marinka Talanov 	Audiobook 	
2015 	Blake’s 7: The Liberator Chronicles 	Jance 	Audiobook 	
2015 	Doctor Who: The Novel Adaptations 	Mrs. Prendersly, Azathoth 	Audiobook 	
2015 	The Confessions of Dorian Gray 	Catherine 	Audiobook 	
2015-2018	Vienna 	Lieutenant Jexie Reagan, Tina Taulis, Medical Robot	Audiobook 	
2017 	Doctor Who: The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield 	Chamu 	Audiobook 	
2017-2023	Torchwood: The Story Continues 	Orr, Catrin Perry 	Audiobook 	
2018 	The War Master 	Martine King 	Audiobook 	
2020 	The Lives of Captain Jack 	Passenger 	Audiobook 	
2020 	The Sandman 	Calliope 	Audio Drama	
2020 	Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious 	Security Guard 	Audiobook 	
2021 	The Lone Centurion 	Anna 	Audiobook 	
===Video Games===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes 	
2014	Age of Wonders III 	Sundren 	 	
2020	The Solitaire Conspiracy 	Rogue 	 	
2021	The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles	Additional Voices	 	
2022	The Excavation of Hob's Barrow 	Thomasina Bateman	Longlisted for a BAFTA award	
2023	Baldur's Gate 3 	Karlach 	Nominated for a BAFTA award 	
===Web===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes 	
2023	High Rollers Presents: Baldur's Gate 3 Cast Play D&D	Karlach	 	
2024	Love is a Legendary Action 	Karlach	Filmed live	
Category:English actors
Category:1984 births
Category:English people