Canadian actor and producer Samantha Quan was fairly new to acting when she appeared in “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” in 2003. Her first on-screen credit was in 1996, and she followed that up with two more before appearing as Andie’s co-worker, Lori, a writer whose columns are often scary or terrible but “surprisingly upbeat.” After that role, things sped up for her, and in 2004 alone she had roles on four TV shows, including “Monk” and “CSI:NY.” Her acting credits continued to be predominately on television, but in the role of producer she had her sights set on film.
And Quan sure has stayed busy behind the scenes. For “The Florida Project,” an Academy Award-nominated drama helmed by her husband, Sean Baker, she was an acting coach for the very green actors who make up the cast. In 2019, she executive produced a short called “Colours,” and in 2021, Quan was an executive producer for her husband’s film “Red Rocket.” She has also appeared Off-Broadway in “Vietgone” and “Poor Yellow Rednecks,” and she’s loaned her voice to narrate books for Penguin Random House.
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Of the work Quan did on the set of “The Florida Project,” Baker gushed to The Globe and Mail, “[The young stars] were excited about coming to work every day and by the time we actually got to shooting, these kids were ready, they were prepped: they knew their lines; they knew the blocking; they knew never to look in the camera.”
