Angus Sampson

Angus Sampson is an Australian actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his performances as Tucker in the Insidious film series, Ray Jenkins in The Mule, the Organic Mechanic in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024), Bear Gerhardt in the second season of Fargo, Dom Chalmers in Bump (2021-present) and Cisco in The Lincoln Lawyer (2022-present).

Early life Sampson was born in Sydney, and was educated at Trinity Grammar School in Summer Hill and at The Armidale School in northern New South Wales. He graduated from the AWARD School in 2002.

Career Acting Sampson's acting career launched in 1996 with the role as Dylan Lewis's sidekick on Recovery, and as Ali in an episode of Stingers. He has appeared as a performer on the improvised show Thank God You're Here. In 2007, Sampson portrayed television personality Ugly Dave Gray in the television film The King Leigh Whannell develop a horror film called Insidious. Sampson was a special guest juror at the 2006 Melbourne International Film Festival,

Sampson has since played a diverse array of film roles. In the same year as Insidious, he was the suit actor for the role of Bull in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are.

In 2015, Sampson starred on the second season of the FX show Fargo, playing the character Bear Gerhardt. He starred as "Ozzy" in The Walking Dead.

Since 2022, Sampson has played the lead role of investigator Dennis "Cisco" Wojciechowski in the Netflix drama series The Lincoln Lawyer, based on the novel of the same name and written by Michael Connelly.

Radio Sampson was an occasional co-host of Australian radio show Get This with Tony Martin on Triple M. Sampson was a founding member of The Forbidden Fruit, an experimental troupe whose only performance was a risque interpretation of Mad Max 2 they performed on late night radio, in which Angus played The Lord Humongous, who turned out to be quite proficient with the jazz flute. Sampson has also been a presenter on RRR's Breakfasters program. In addition, Sampson was also the un-credited host of the cult classic late-night radio show The Lonely Hearts Club, a deadpan comedy series which ran on ABC Radio National in early 2011 in which Sampson appeared under the pseudonym Richard Silk.

Filmography Film

Television

Stage Year Title Role NotesRef. 1996 Theatresports – The Best of 1996 Show The Comedy Store, Petersham 2003 Mojo The Store Room, Melbourne 2004 Happy New The Store Room, Melbourne 2005 Playing the Victim Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne

Accolades Year Award Category Film ResultRef.2014 AACTA Award Best Supporting Actor100 Bloody Acres AFCA Awards Best Supporting Actor Best Actor The Mule