Meet Samantha
Samantha is an actress, broadcaster, writer, disability rights campaigner, diversity and inclusion consultant and keynote speaker.
Samantha Renke is
based in Central London.
Samantha is an actress, presenter, disability activist, inclusion and equality consultant and keynote speaker. Prior to moving to London, she was a modern languages teacher.
A columnist for
the Metro,
Samantha has written a multitude of articles on what it is like to be disabled in a disabling world, as well as several socio-cultural criticisms on patronising attitudes, body image, bullying, LGBTQ+ issues, ableism and the financial and social costs of being disabled.
Samantha has written for The
Huffington Post and PosAbility magazine.
She also featured in the highly successful series of adverts for Maltesers based on real-life experiences of disabled people, and is an experienced speaker having spoken at events for companies and organisations such as the National Education Union, Viacom, Houses of Parliament, British Red Cross, Santander, Reed Smith, UNICEF, ASOS, COS Fashion, Creative Equals, the Valuable 500 and Viacom.
Samantha is an ambassador for Scope,
ADD International, Parallel Global and a patron of Head2Head Theatre.
She was named third most influential disabled person in The Shaw Trust’s Power 100 list of 2020, nominated as Campaigner of the Year in the 2019 European Diversity Awards and shortlisted as Celebrity of the Year at the National Diversity Awards 2020.
Samantha won The Susan Mullen Award for Best
Actress at the Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival in 2014.
Her credits include Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (BBC Two), Rip Off Britain (BBC One), Sunday Morning Live (BBC One), Loose Women (ITV), Jeremy Vine on 5 (Channel 5), Badass Women’s Hour (talkRADIO), Morning Live (BBC One), How To Spend It Well At Christmas (ITV), How To Beat…Ageing (Channel 4), The Disability Paradox (BBC Four), Front Row (BBC Radio 4) and Word of Mouth (BBC Radio 4).
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