Born & raised in New York City, Samantha began studying drama as an actor at LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.

Her parents emigrated from the Philippines both as accountants and settled in Queens, New York. While attending the City University of Hunter College, she worked as a Production Stage Manager for the successful run of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge along with performing in countless productions including: Antigone, God's Ear, The 5th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide, She Has a Name and A Midsummer Night's Dream. She also helped spearhead the MFA playwriting festival with playwrights-in-residence, Annie Baker and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

Her theater training continued at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre ('16) and London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (Summer Shakespeare Course, '18). A week after graduating conservatory, she booked her first tv appearance on Marvel's Iron Fist. Most recently, she played the lead as a jaded pro-wrestler in Wh