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ONE TOUGH CHICK
DON’T MESS WITH PRIVATE EYES STAR CINDY SAMPSON. BY FATIMA SYED
In her role as Angie Everett on Global TV’s mini- series Private Eyes, Cindy Sampson is a force to be reckoned with. In the show, the Halifax actress stars alongside fellow Canadian Jason
Priestley as a feisty private investigator.
“I would like to think that my characters are all strong and independent, but Angie definitely is. She is charming, sarcastic, and she’s got a sense of humour. She’s ballsy, loyal and super driven,”
Sampson says.
Angie is a departure, however, for Samp-
son, who has played a variety of roles, including on Art of More, Supernatural, Being Human and, most recently, Imposters.
Whether she is playing a mom or a kickass de- tective, Sampson is all heart when it comes to the business. She describes herself as a film and tele- vision “junkie,” and says there is nothing she loves more than going to the movies. The actress may star on the small screen, but
it’s the big screen she looks up to.
When it comes to fa- vourite actors and people she admires, Sampson hap- pily shares her picks. “Cate Blanchett has always been my number one. Anything she touches turns to gold. Julianne Moore, Sandra Bullock, I feel that I have kind of grown up watching them. They are the women I have looked up to in the business,” she muses.
It’s no surprise that the strongest women in Holly- wood today inspire Samp- son, who seems to embody a few traits of her character
Angie off the screen, as well. While she exudes a typically polite and humble Canadian attitude, Sampson is also spirited and unafraid to speak her mind. This becomes clear when talk turns to her plans for the future.
“I want to be on Dancing With The Stars,” Sampson admits with a chuckle. The ambitious star is also planning to apprentice with directors later this year, and get some experience behind the camera. “I’ve been in this business for 20 plus years. It seems that I might as well make a lateral move to expand my horizons,” she says.
Expanding horizons seems to be a theme in Sampson’s life—she shares that her favourite part of the job is the opportunity to travel for work. “The first [time] I felt like,‘Oh my god, I have the best job in the world’ was the first time I travelled for work. I shot a movie in Romania, and I was like ‘I’m on top of the world,’” she says. For the
avid traveller, dream des- tinations include Greece, the Galapagos Islands and Croatia. But Nova Scotia will always be home.
“I grew up across the street from the ocean. I ba- sically grew up fishing. My husband and I, every time we go on vacation, we still always take one day to go fishing. It’s my favourite place in the whole world, and I go back every sum- mer and every Christmas,” she tells us.
Even as she achieves the coveted Hollywood dream, it seems for Sampson there’s no place like home. And we would be inclined to agree.
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