# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samantha-giles
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:57:44.528Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samantha-giles"
name: "Samantha Giles"
slug: "samantha-giles"
description: "Samantha Elizabeth Giles is an English actress and author. She is best known for playing Bernice Blackstock in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. She had also played Sally Boothe in the ITV drama series Where the Heart Is and Valerie Holden in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks. She departed from Emmerdale in 2019 to focus on other creative projects, such as writing her debut novel, Rosemary and the Witches of Pendle Hill, released in August 2020. In April 2021, it was confirmed that she would be returning to Emmerdale."
tagline: "British actress"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/sMHv3blqeThp0bypfGiJBZrX72z.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1971-07-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.77
  momentum:             2.154440154440154
  historical:           5.989997333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0318495/"
    handle:    "nm0318495"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AA%DA%BE%D8%A7_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "سامنتھا جائلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AB%D8%A7_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "سامانثا جايلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AB%D8%A7_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "سامانثا جايلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Giles"
    title: "Samantha Giles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%84%9C%EB%A7%A8%EC%82%AC_%EC%9E%90%EC%9D%BC%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "서맨사 자일스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Giles"
    title: "Samantha Giles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7408658"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1219971"
    title: "Samantha Giles"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump