Samantha Riley appeared on Coronation Street in May 2011, as Phoebe, a young girl in Nick's Bistro, who Tyrone Dobbs plucked up the courage to speak to.
She graduated from the Arts Educational School of Acting in 2008.
Her other credits include roles in Firebite and short films entitled Work Experience and Let Sleeping Girls Lie.
On stage, she appeared in productions of Twelfth Night, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Period of Adjustment, Romeo and Juliet and Accrington Pals.