Danusia Samal
Cultural Creatives
She/Her
Based: London
Danusia Samal is an actor, writer & campaigner from London. Her credits include Gangs of London S2 & 3 (Sky); Bodies (Netflix); Ghost in the Shell & The Serial Killer’s Wife (Paramount); Black Cake, The Great (both Hulu) and Tyrant (Fox). In 2018 she won the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award for ‘Out of Sorts’, a family drama exploring identity and race for second generation migrants, which was later shortlisted for the George Devine Award. In 2022, Danusia co-founded Equity for a Green New Deal’s Sustainable Screen campaign - pushing for 10 industry-wide Climate Commitments and a Green Rider for talent. The Green Rider launched at Edinburgh TV Festival, with extensive media coverage. The Rider is currently being trialed on TV productions. Danusia is passionate about tackling climate change through an intersectional lens, with an emphasis on collective action through our workplaces and areas of expertise.
There's a saying in Spanish “Mi granito de arena”, meaning "My little grain of sand." I take this to mean that when we all contribute what we can, in the areas we understand best, we can collectively achieve extraordinary widescale change.