Samantha Strauss (Writer)

H2O: Just Add Water

H2O: Just Add Water revolves around three teenage girls facing everyday teen problems with an added twist: they cope with the burden of growing a giant fin and transforming into mermaids whenever they come in contact with water.

Release Date2006-07-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count661

Nine Perfect Strangers

At a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation, nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this 10-day retreat is the resort's director, Masha, a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. However, these nine "perfect" strangers have no idea what is about to hit them.

Release Date2021-08-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count508

Dance Academy

At Sydney's National Dance Academy, a few talented youngsters are recruited for the excruciatingly tough course. It follows Tara Webster, a sheepfarmgirl who's ambition is to be the next best ballerina. Jewish long line of doctors' heir Samuel 'Sammy' and minor juvenile offender Christian are the outsiders but gradually fit in, making new kinds of friends. Star ballerina's daughter Kat also introduces them in the circle of last-year brother Ethan, who already aspires a career as choreographer. Also Abigail, a smart young girl who'll walk over dead bodies to reach the stars tries to sabotage everything and everyone.

Release Date2010-05-31

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Episode Count66

Vote Count46

The New Legends of Monkey

Follow a teenage girl and a trio of fallen gods on a perilous journey as they attempt to bring an end to a demonic reign of chaos and restore balance to their world. Inspired by the 16th Century Chinese fable “Journey to the West.”

Release Date2018-01-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count192

Apple Cider Vinegar

Two young women advocate for wellness remedies to cure deadly illnesses, unraveling their lives as they unknowingly — and knowingly — mislead the world.

Release Date2025-02-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count54

The End

Three generations of a family with separate but intersecting obsessions - trying to figure out how to die with dignity, live with none and make it count.

Release Date2020-02-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

Vote Count17

The Last Anniversary

A mystery that touches on family matters, motherhood and those women whose legacy defines the generations that blossom after them.

Release Date2025-03-27

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count6

The Dry

Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.

Release Date2021-01-01

DepartmentCrew

JobAdditional Writing

Vote Count729

The Condemned

Jack Conrad is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is "purchased" by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from all corners of the world, with freedom going to the sole survivor.

Release Date2007-04-27

DepartmentProduction

JobCasting Associate

Vote Count803

The Great Raid

As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.

Release Date2005-08-12

DepartmentProduction

JobCasting Assistant

Vote Count350

Dance Academy: The Movie

This 2017 movie follows the original dance academy TV show and tracks where the characters are in their lives now.

Release Date2017-04-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count144

Mary: The Making of a Princess

This is the story of a fateful encounter and the life-changing choices that led to one of Australia's and the world's most recognisable and romantic love stories.

Release Date2015-11-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6