Angus Sampson
Birthdate: Feb 12, 1979
Birthplace: Australia
Angus Sampson (birthname: Angus Murray Lincoln Sampson), an Australian actor most widely seen in the Insidious and Mad Max franchises, started his feature film career in director/writer/producer Murray Fahey’s comedy, Dags (1998); the Columbia/Sony Pictures Releasing horror movie, Darkness Falls (2003); Australian director/writer Shannon Young’s crime thriller, Razor Eaters (2003); the Australian comedy, You and Your Stupid Mate (2005); Australian director/writer Alister Grierson’s WWII movie, Kokoda (2006); director/co-writer Khoa Do’s English-Vietnamese-language rugby movie, Footy Legends (2006); and stars/writers Adam Zwar’s and Jason Gann’s Australian comedy, Rats and Cats (2006).
Sampson’s first role in a big-budget Hollywood movie was director/co-writer Spike Jonze’s and co-writer Dave Eggers’ screen version of Maurice Sendak’s children’s classic, Where the Wild Things Are (2009), produced in part by Tom Hanks and Sendak, with Max Records, Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, Chris Cooper, James Gandolfini, Catherine O’Hara and Forest Whitaker, but grossing only $100 million (based on estimated costs) for Warner Bros. Pictures (U.S./International)/Roadshow Films (Australia/New Zealand).
Sampson joined Brendan Cowell, Peter Dinklage and Yvonne Strahovski in the Australian rom com, I Love You Too (2010), and then began his run in the role of Tucker in the Insidious movies, first with the James Wan-directed Insidious (2010), starring Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne and Barbara Hershey; in director/co-writer James Wan’s Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013), with new cast member Lin Shaye; director/writer/actor Leigh Whannell’s prequel, Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015), starring Dermot Mulroney and Stefanie Scott; the Patrick Wilson-directed and co-starring sequel, Insidious: The Red Door (2023), co-starring Ty Simpkins, Sinclair Daniel, Hiam Abbass and Byrne, all produced by Stage 6 Films, and released largely by Sony Pictures Releasing, and delivering a phenomenal $564 million or more than ten times estimated costs.
Sampson did a supporting voice role in Warner Bros. Pictures/Village Roadshow Pictures’ animated Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (2010), based on Kathryn Lasky’s Guardians of Ga’Hoole book series, with the voices of Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, Anthony LaPaglia and Sam Neill under Zack Snyder’s direction, and earning a $140 million global gross.
Angus Sampson co-starred with Damon Herriman in directors/writers Cameron and Colin Cairnes’s Australian horror movie, 100 Bloody Acres (2012), followed by a co-starring role in director/co-writer Richard Gray’s Australian rules football movie, Blinder (2013). Sampson’s debut as director/writer/producer as well as co-star was the Australian black comedy, The Mule (2014), co-directed by Tony Mahoney, co-written by Jaime Brown and Leigh Whannell (who also co-starred), with Hugo Weaving, Ewen Leslie and John Noble, and premiering at the South by Southwest Film Festival.
Sampson played a supporting role in director/producer Wayne Hope’s Australian comedy, Now Add Honey (2015), with Robyn Buterl, Lucy Fry and Portia de Rossi, and then Sampson landed the role of Organic Mechanic in George Miller’s spectacular Mad Max sequels, first Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult, grossing a franchise-record $380.4 million for Warner Bros. Pictures (International)/Roadshow Entertainment (Australia); and then again in Miller’s epic spinoff, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024), starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke and Alyla Browne, launching out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival but underperforming for Warners (based on estimated costs) with $174.4 million. Sampson played a supporting role in the directors/co-writers The Spierig Brothers’ historical supernatural horror movie, Winchester (2018), starring Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Sarah Snook, co-produced by Australian and U.S. companies, and earning a highly profitable $44 million return for distributors Lionsgate (U.S.-U.K.)/StudioCanal (Australia-New Zealand).
Angus Sampson did a voice role in director/producer Simon McQuoid’s reboot, Mortal Kombat (2021), the third installment in the series based on Ed Boon’s and John Tobias’s video game, with Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Tadanobu Asano, and Hiroyuki Sanada, and which grossed $84.4 million worldwide for Warner Bros. Pictures. Sampson joined the ensemble of director/co-writer/producer Taika Waititi’s soccer comedy-drama, Next Goal Wins (2023), based on Mike Brett’s and Steve Jamison’s 2014 documentary, with Michael Fassbender, Will Arnett, and Elisabeth Moss, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, and earning a disappointing $18.6 million (based on estimated costs) for Searchlight Pictures.
Sampson co-starred in the survival thriller, Deep Water (2026), with Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, and Kelly Gale under Renny Harlin’s direction, co-produced in Australia and the U.S., and released wide by Magenta Light Studios. Then Sampson joined the cast of director/co-writer Kirill Sokolov’s horror comedy, They Will Kill You (2026), starring Zazie Beetz, Myha’la, Paterson Joseph, Heather Graham, and Patricia Arquette, produced by New Line Cinema/Nocturna, and which launched at the South by Southwest Film Festival before a wide release by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Sampson starred with Jessica Alba (who was also a producer) in the action thriller, The Mark (date to be announced), with Jessica McNamee, Tom Hopper, and Elsa Pataky under director/executive producer Justin Chadwick, and which was co-produced by Aperture Media Pictures/Falcon Films/Highland Film Group/Hoodlum Pictures/K.JAM Media.
Personal life
Angus Sampson was born and raised in Sydney, Australia, by his parents. Sampson attended Trinity Grammar School, The Armidale School, and The AWARD School, from which he graduated in 2002. Sampson’s height is 6’ 3”. Sampson’s estimated net worth is $500,000.
Known For
Angus Sampson Movies
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Previous (22)
- 2026 |
Deep Water
A group of international passengers en route from Los Angeles to Shanghai are forced to make an emergency landing in shark-infested waters. Now they must work together in hopes to overcome the frenzy of sharks drawn to the wreckage.
- 2026 |
They Will Kill You
asThe P.I.
A woman takes a job as a housekeeper in a NYC high-rise, unaware of the building's history of disappearances. She soon realizes the community is shrouded in mystery.
- 2024 |
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
asOrganic Mechanic
The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before her encounter and teamup with Mad Max.
- 2023 |
Insidious: The Red Door
asTucker
The Lamberts must go deeper into The Further than ever before to put their demons to rest once and for all.
- 2018 |
- 2018 |
- 2018 |
Winchester
asJohn Hansen
Ensconced in her sprawling San Jose, California mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester (Dame Helen Mirren) believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.
- 2018 |
Insidious: The Last Key
asTucker
Parapsychologist Dr. Elise Rainier faces her most fearsome and personal haunting yet, as she is drawn back to her ghostly childhood home where the terror began.
- 2015 | Now Add Honeyas Mick Croyston
- 2015 |
Insidious: Chapter 3
asTucker
A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.
- 2015 |
Mad Max: Fury Road
asThe Organic Mechanic
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshipper and a drifter named Max.
- 2013 | Blinderas Franky
- 2013 |
Insidious: Chapter 2
asTucker
The Lamberts believe that they have defeated the spirits that have haunted their family, but they soon discover that evil is not beaten so easily.
- 2012 | 100 Bloody Acresas Lindsay Morgan
- 2010 | Insidiousas Tucker
- 2010 | Summer Codaas Franky
- 2007 | Rats and Catsas Robber
- 2006 | Footy Legendsas Lloydy
- 2006 | Kokoda: 39th Battalionas Dan
- 2005 | You and Your Stupid Mateas Jeffrey
- 2003 | Fat Pizzaas Junky
- 1998 | Dagsas Prozac
Facts About Angus Sampson
Sexy: Angus Sampson was named among the World’s Sexiest People by Who’s Weekly Magazine in 2007.
On the Radio: Sampson has had an interesting record of work in radio, including as a founding member of the experimental performing group The Forbidden Fruit, as a host on the Australian show Get This with Tony Martin, and on the Melbourne station RRR.
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