Samantha Wan (Actor)

The Handmaid's Tale

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

Release Date2017-04-26

Charactersd Aunt Claudia

Episode Count1

Vote Count2999

Private Eyes

Ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade irrevocably changes his life when he teams up with fierce P.I. Angie Everett to form an unlikely investigative powerhouse.

Release Date2016-05-26

Charactersd Zoe Chow

Episode Count47

Vote Count138

Frankie Drake Mysteries

Toronto’s only female private detective in the 1920s takes on the cases the police don’t want or can’t handle. From airplanes and booze running to American G-men, Communists and union busters, Frankie’s fearless sense of adventure gets her into all kinds of trouble, but she always manages to find her way out.

Release Date2017-11-06

Charactersd Ai Lin

Episode Count2

Vote Count38

Second Jen

In Toronto, best friends Jen and Mo decide to become roommates when Mo's parents move back to the Philippines and Jen takes the opportunity to live independent from her Chinese immigrant parents.

Release Date2016-10-27

DepartmentWriting

JobStory Editor

Charactersd Jennifer 'Jen' Wu

Episode Count5

Vote Count5

Run the Burbs

Follow the Phams, a young, bold Vietnamese-South Asian-Canadian family taking a different approach to living life to the fullest, while changing the way we think about contemporary family values and life in the burbs.

Release Date2022-01-05

Charactersd Cathy

Episode Count12

Vote Count15

The Kindness of Strangers

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.

Release Date2019-12-12

Charactersd Receptionist

Vote Count113

Sudden Master

After her estranged father’s unexpected death, Alex Cheng unwillingly becomes the heir to his Martial Arts School. She is faced with the titanic task of defending her family’s legacy in an underground competition.

Release Date2015-11-08

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd Alex Cheng

Episode Count5

Reel Women Seen

Tells the story of the realities faced by women in the film and TV industry yet simultaneously depicts the necessary, possible and achievable ways to transform them. The story is set in common TV backdrops – from a police procedural to a sitcom (complete with laugh track), to a medical drama, to a webisode series.

Release Date2017-05-25

Charactersd Samantha

Vote Count2

The Devil's Mile

A relentlessly-paced hybrid of gritty crime thriller and Lovecraftian supernatural horror, "The Devil's Mile" follows a trio of kidnappers who take an ill-advised detour en route to deliver their hostages - two teenage girls - to their mysterious and powerful employer. When they accidentally kill one of the girls during a botched escape attempt, their simmering mistrust explodes into shocking violence. But what they thought was their worst case scenario is only the beginning, as they are engulfed by the hellish forces that haunt the road - a road they realize they may never escape. Now captors and captive must fight together to escape the monstrous forces pursuing them and somehow survive ...

Release Date2014-07-26

Charactersd Suki

Vote Count7

Expecting

An awkward dinner party among friends from an infertility support group takes an unexpected turn.

Release Date2020-11-13

Charactersd Ali

Vote Count2

LESlieVILLE

LESlieVILLE follows the story of two women with a strong connection, played by Canadian theatre actors Samantha Wan and Tiffany Martin. The trouble is, one of them is already taken — a storyline based on the personal experience of series writer and director Nadine Bell.

Release Date2013-02-08

Charactersd Sera

Episode Count11

Divorce Photographer

After a bad breakup, a seasoned wedding photographer decides to start shooting divorces.

Charactersd Erin

Vote Count2

Head Over Heels

A suburban girl at heart, Addison, is off to prove herself in the world of high-end fashion footwear when she lands a life-changing internship at an Upper East Side studio leading up to the star-studded New York Fashion Week. Addison is determined to hold onto her integrity and her family values while struggling to balance it all and forge a path to success and romance, although she may fall head over heels while trying to make her dreams come true.

Release Date2024-08-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

Road Trip Romance

An escalating series of unfortunate events keeps delaying a young woman’s journey to her sister’s wedding – a journey she is forced to take with the guy who was her biggest rival in high school.

Release Date2022-05-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count23

Love at Sky Gardens

When Deirdre accidentally spills coffee on regular customer and event planner, Deirdre offers to help him get back on track by lending her rooftop garden design services for his boss's next big event.

Release Date2021-10-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10

Mistletoe Time Machine

Three friends become estranged following a disastrous holiday talent show performance and, a decade later, are sent back in time to relive their senior year of high school thanks to Santa’s magic spell.

Release Date2022-11-24

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count6