Samantha Newark was born on 27 June 1967 and is an English musician and actress.
22 Facts About Samantha Newark
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Samantha Newark is best known for her voice-over work as the speaking voice of Jem and Jerrica in the animated cartoon series Jem.
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Samantha Newark lent her voice to many radio and TV projects while writing and performing her original music as a solo recording artist in Los Angeles CA, Nashville TN and Dallas, Texas.
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In 2015 Newark appeared in the live-action feature film adaptation on Jem and the Holograms directed by Jon M Chu.
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Samantha Newark attended several different schools and began her music career in Africa after seeing Lena Zavaroni perform.
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Samantha Newark continued working as an actress and singer and came to prominence when she landed the role of Jem in 1985.
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Samantha Newark made a cameo appearance in the Jem and the Holograms live action film adaptation.
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Samantha Newark was cast as the voice of a young Peter Pan's mother in Steven Spielberg feature film Hook as well as doing countless on camera and voice-over TV and radio commercials.
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Samantha Newark played the role of Debbie in the 1987 thriller film Summer Camp Nightmare.
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Samantha Newark began her professional music career at the age of seven.
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At age 10 she and her family immigrated to America and Samantha Newark was promptly signed to International Creative Management where she was thrust onto the State fair circuit opening for Eddie Rabbitt, Pat Boone, Debby Boone and Mac Davis.
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Samantha Newark was cast in the title role in the United States Navy band production of the musical Annie in Washington DC.
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Samantha Newark was a featured guest vocalist at age 14 with the 65 piece Los Angeles Pops orchestra.
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Samantha Newark won the Los Angeles vocal competition at the age of 17 and then through the late 1990s started to write and record her own original music with many different incarnations of original bands.
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Samantha Newark recorded the song "In Your Eyes" for the 1986 anime film Project A-ko and worked with Richie Zito and Joey Carbone and was hired to sing multiple songs on the soundtrack for the movie Crazy Six starring Rob Lowe, Burt Reynolds, Mario Van Peebles.
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Samantha Newark was one of the 20 finalists out of 10,000 submissions for the Lilith Fair talent contest sponsored by Star 98.7 radio and Universal contests in 1999.
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Samantha Newark sang vocals on the movie soundtrack Some Girl starring Juliette Lewis and sang vocals in the movie Material Girls.
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Samantha Newark has worked in the EDM world co-writing a song called "Deeper" for the German group Fragma.
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Samantha Newark made her move to Music city Nashville in Tennessee in October 2007.
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In 2008, Samantha Newark was invited to be a part of the documentary film "Saravia" written and directed by Joaquin Montalvan about the spiritual journey into the life of painter, writer and composer Mauricio Saravia.
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Samantha Newark composed the melodies for Saravia's poetry that was featured throughout the film and she performed one of the songs live in the movie.
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Samantha Newark released her second album Somethin' Good in late October 2011, with songs written and performed by Samantha Newark and produced by Dave Polich, Michael Jackson's keyboard programmer on the This Is It concerts.