Who was Samantha Weinstein? Canadian Actress Dead at 28

Samantha Weinstein was a Canadian actress who started her professional acting career when she was just 6 years old.  By 13 years old, she had appeared in several movies and tv shows including Siblings, Big Girl, Ninth Street Chronicles, The Stone Angle, Toronto Stories, and more.

She won an ACTRA Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female for her role in Big Girl in 2006. She was the youngest actress to ever win the award during that period.

Weinstein was also a voice actress who was featured in several cartoons including Babar and the Adventures of Badou, Gerald McBoing Boing, Wishfart, D. N. Ace, Let’s Go Luna!, Dino Ranch, and more.

She died of cancer, after almost two years of being diagnosed with the disease. According to the family, she died on May 14, 2023. She was 28 years old.

“After two and a half years of cancer treatment, and a lifetime of jet-setting around the world, voicing a plethora of cartoon animals, making music, and knowing more about life than most people ever will, she is off on her next adventure,” a statement by the family read.