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Sam Richardson

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Sam Richardson

Born Jan 12, 1984 · 42 years89 titles 38 movies · 51 TV
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Biography

Sam Richardson (born January 12, 1984) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Richard Splett in the HBO political comedy series Veep (2012–19), co-creating and co-starring in the Comedy Central comedy series Detroiters (2017–18) alongside Tim Robinson, and for playing various characters in the Netflix sketch show I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (2019–present), Aniq Adjaye in the Apple TV+ series The Afterparty (2022–23), and Norville Rogers in the Max series Velma (2023–24). In 2022 and 2023, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance as Edwin Akufo in Ted Lasso, winning the 2023 award in this category. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Richardson (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Also known as

Samuel Richardson

Born

Jan 12, 1984

Detroit, Michigan, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

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2003 2 title(s)

2005 1 title(s)

2009 1 title(s)

2010 1 title(s)

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2013 2 title(s)

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2015 2 title(s)

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2024 7 title(s)

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2026 5 title(s)

Undated 6 title(s)