Former Genesis LAMDA scholar Samuel Barnett named "One to Watch" by The Times

Samuel Barnett, a graduate of LAMDA who was supported throughout his studies by the Genesis Foundation, was recently noted as a "potentially major actor" in the theatre world by The Times:

Remember Posner, the forlorn young gay haplessly in love with glamorous Dakin, in Alan Bennett’s The History Boys? That role was played on stage and on screen by Samuel Barnett, and won him nominations as best supporting actor at both the Olivier and New York’s Tony Awards. Since then he has been in a West End revival of Patrick Marber’s gambling play, Dealer’s Choice; scored as the pre-Raphaelite painter Millais in TV’s The Desperate Romantics: and recently received terrific reviews for his performance in James Graham’s Whisky Taster at the Bush: a fey, febrile adman with a sensory problem that makes him unable to taste properly the vodka he’s supposed to be selling. And now he’s Leantio in Middleton’s Women Beware Women at the National, a poor young man who married and is betrayed by a wealthy heiress, an event that leads to treachery, gore and disaster. The role will give Barnett a fresh chance to cast off Bennett’s classroom and establish himself as a potentially major actor: one that, at 29, he’s more than ready to take. BN

Samuel Barnett is currently appearing in Women Beware Women at the National Theatre. For tickets please visit the National Theatre website