George Sampson

George began his passion for performing on the streets of Manchester, Market Street at the age of twelve where he would busk three times a week, breakdancing and performing for the public. He was spotted as an exceptional talent and was encouraged to audition for Britain’s Got Talent, in which he went onto win the second series in 2008, with his hip hop interpretation of Singing in the Rain.

Following the success of the show he went onto star in the West Ends HipHop musical: Into the Hoods, playing Lead Schoolboy, following this with two sold out National arena tours with BGT.

George was then picked for his acting ability, and  starred as Eddie in the feature films Street Dance 3D and Street Dance 2, and then went onto shoot 3 series of hit BBC drama Waterloo Road, playing bad boy Kyle Stack, in which one series won a National Television Award for Best Drama.

Having found a desire for screen work, George began working on Sky TVs Mount Pleasant, playing the role of Gary, for 3 series, and later appeared on Emmerdale, as troublemaker, Ryan, In 2016, for several episodes.

George played the main character Daniel in the short film, Daniel Thomas, produced by East Heads Films Ltd in 2017, and has played feature roles in television shows such as Casualty and The Dumping Ground.

George made his musical theatre debut towards the end of 2017, playing bad boy Reecey in: Our House, on a UK tour, combining his love for both acting and performing arts.  He then enjoyed a successful run in his first Qdos pantomime at the Lyceum Theatre, Crewe in 2018, before returning the following year for Qdos at The Hippodrome, Darlington to play Jack, in Jack and The Beanstalk 2019.

George continued his musical journey, playing the role of school bad boy Dean Paxton, in the Everybody’s Talking about Jamie 2020-21/ 2022/ UK tour, and went on to being cast as the same role, at the Ahmanson theatre, downtown Los Angeles in February 2022 for 3 months, before returning home and continuing on the UK tour afterwards to close off 2022.

He has since done 3 more pantomimes, including two Prince roles, and his next venture as title role, Robin Hood, on an easter tour in 2024.