1. Angus Sampson 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 and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Bear Gerhardt in the second season of Fargo, Dom Chalmers in Bump and Cisco in The Lincoln Lawyer.
Angus Sampson's acting career launched in 1996 with the role as Dylan Lewis's sidekick on Recovery, an ABC youth music show.
Angus Sampson has appeared as a performer on the improvised show Thank God You're Here.
In 2007, Angus Sampson portrayed television personality Ugly Dave Gray in the television film The King which examines the life of Australian TV legend Graham Kennedy.
In 2010, Angus Sampson helped his friend and fellow former Recovery presenter Leigh Whannell develop a horror film called Insidious.
The film was released in September 2010, with Whannell and Angus Sampson playing "comical low-tech paranormal investigators" Specs and Tucker, roles they have reprised in the film's three follow-ups.
Angus Sampson was a special guest juror at the 2006 Melbourne International Film Festival, and host of the 2010 IF Awards, broadcast on SBS TV.
Angus Sampson has since played a diverse array of film roles.
In 2015, Angus Sampson starred on the second season of the FX show Fargo, playing the character Bear Gerhardt.
In 2022, Angus Sampson played the lead role of Dennis "Cisco" Wojciechowski in the Netflix drama series The Lincoln Lawyer, based on the novel of the same name and written by Michael Connelly.
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.