Samantha Renke

Actress, Presenter, Disability Consultant, Key Note Speaker and Activist

Samantha Renke is an actress, presenter, speaker, writer and disability rights campaigner.

Her credits include How To Beat Ageing (Channel 4), Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (BBC Two), Sunday Morning Live (BBC One), Rip Off Britain (BBC One), Loose Women (ITV), Good Morning Britain (ITV), Jeremy Vine on 5 (Channel 5), Front Row (BBC Radio 4) and Badass Women’s Hour (talkRADIO). She has also been interviewed on ITV News, Channel 4 News, Channel 5 News, Sky News and BBC Radio 5 Live.

Samantha is a columnist for the Metro as well as having written for The Huffington Post and PosAbility magazine. She also featured in the highly successful series of adverts for Maltesers based on real-life experiences of disabled people.

She is an experienced speaker having spoken at events for companies and organisations such as the National Education Union, Viacom, Houses of Parliament, the British Red Cross and ASOS.

Samantha is an ambassador for Scope and a patron of Head2Head Theatre. She was named as one of the UK’s most influential disabled people in The Shaw Trust’s Power 100 lists of 2018 and 2019, as well as being nominated as Campaigner of the Year at the 2019 European Diversity Awards and Celebrity of the Year award at the National Diversity Awards 2020.

Useful links

samantharenkeofficial.com