Sam Lilja
Biography
Sam Lilja is a Juilliard-trained American expat living in London. He has worked on theatrical productions and on film and TV sets around the world. Recent favourites include Zooming with Simon Pegg during the depths of the pandemic, jamming with the cast of Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, entering the Upside Down with the cast of Stranger Things: The First Shadow, and sailing on the ocean with the cast of the live-action remake of Moana. He loves any kind of fermented food.
Known For & Full Filmography6 Titles
Drama Series - 2016, 16 episodes • as Barry the Projectionist
Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power and influence to outmaneuver the other. The stakes are in the billions in this timely, provocative series.
Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • as SSGN Ohio - Crew
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."
Drama Series - 2023, 16 episodes • as Lt. Roger Quinn
In the Wild West in the 1860s and 1870s, Sarah and John have founded New Babylon, a city of outcasts of all backgrounds. Haunted by the murder of his family eight years earlier, Django is still looking for his daughter, believing she may have survived the killing. When Django shockingly finds her in Babylon, about to marry John, Sarah - now a grown woman - wants Django to leave fearing he'll put Babylon in jeopardy. But Django, believing the city is in danger, is adamant that he will not lose his daughter twice.
Movie - 2016, 2h 15m • as Jeremy
A psychiatrist faces his past, present and future when he finds himself involved in the treatment of a young man recently released from prison for a murder committed when the boy was just 11 years old.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Bevins
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln's youngest son is laid to rest. That night, Lincoln visits his son's crypt, a chorus of ghosts narrating their brief reunion. Based on the bestselling novel by acclaimed author George Saunders.