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Marie Schlingmann
Marie Schlingmann
Born	Berlin, Germany
Occupation(s)	Director, screenwriter
Spouse	Samantha Buck

Samantha Buck
Samantha Buck
	Samantha Buck receiving the Peabody for Best Kept Secret
Born	Samantha Susan Buck; December 20, 1974 (age 50); Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Director, actress, screenwriter
Years active	1997–present
Spouse	Marie Schlingmann

Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann are film writers and directors who have made five films together. Buck is also an actress and has directed the documentary Best Kept Secret solo. They are best known for the 2019 film Sister Aimee.

Personal life and education

Buck and Schlingmann are married,^[1] having met at Columbia University.^[2] Both have a Master of Fine Arts in film from Columbia, and it is in this program that they created their first short films together.^[3] The pair have won various grants for female directors. Schlingmann is from Berlin,^[4] and though she is German, she writes screenplays in English, saying that her "creative brain" is in this language.^[2]

Career

In her acting career, Buck played Det. G. Lynn Bishop in Law & Order: Criminal Intent^[5] and Amy on the comedy series Stella.^[5]^: 1018 She became interested in film production when starring on Big Apple; the showrunner made the cast take writing workshops and encouraged her talents. She explained that it took her several years after this to follow through, because at the time there were very few actresses who had made the transition to behind the camera. She did not begin with writing, but took up documentary in the cinéma vérité style where she was "basically writing in the edit room with 100 hours of footage".^[2] In 2013 she directed the Gotham Award-nominated and Peabody Award-winning documentary film Best Kept Secret.^[3]^[6] During the production of Best Kept Secret, Buck applied and was accepted to Columbia's film program.^[2]

The couple first made films together at Columbia University, directing two award-winning short films: Canary and The Mink Catcher. The latter of these was shown at both Telluride Film Festival and South by Southwest.^[3] Their first feature film as a duo was slated to be an adaptation of the young adult novel Need in 2016, as a thriller financed by Covert Media.^[3] This year they also began development of the feature film The Big D,^[7] something which they were still developing in 2019.^[8] Both The Mink Catcher and The Big D are set in Dallas, Texas.^[9] Their breakthrough feature came a few years later in 2019's Sister Aimee, which is loosely based on the story of Aimee Semple McPherson.^[10] Sister Aimee screened at Sundance Film Festival in 2019,^[8] and is planned to have a theatrical run and video on demand release in 2020.^[11]

Production filmography

Year	Title	Buck	Schlingmann	Notes
2008	The Reasons We Were Dangerous		Co-director, editor, producer	Documentary^[12]
2009	21 Below	Director		Documentary^[13]
2012	The Death of Hercules		Director, writer	Short^[12]
2013	Best Kept Secret	Director, writer, co-producer	Thanks	Documentary^[2]
2013	Lawn Care	Producer	Director, writer	^[12]
2014	Glacial Erratics	Director	Writer, producer	^[12]
2015	The Mink Catcher	Director, writer	Writer, producer	^[3]
2016	Canary	Writer, producer	Director, writer	^[12]
2019	Sister Aimee	Director, writer	Director, writer	^[14]

Buck acting filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	The Sticky Fingers of Time	Gorge	^[15]
1997	In & Out	Classroom Student	^[16]
1998	Fiona	Supervisor	^[17]
1999	The 24 Hour Woman	Deanne	^[18]
2000	Wirey Spindell	Samantha	^[18]
2000	Calling Bobcat	Judy	^[19]
2002	Searching for Paradise	Andrea	^[20]
2002	Heartbreak Hospital	Sandy	^[18]
2006	Fearless	Journalist	^[21]
2006	Kettle of Fish	Mother	^[18]
2008	Woman in Burka	Samantha	Short film^[22]
2012	Gayby	Sophia	^[12]^[16]
2012	Hellbenders	Penelope	^[12]
2012	What Maisie Knew	Zoe's Mother	^[12]^[16]
2018	Summertime	Ruth	^[16]
2018	Private Life	Psychologist	^[16]
2020	The Night House	Becky	^[21]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Waitress	Episode: "Entitled"^[16]
2000	Third Watch	Vangie Sundstrom	Recurring role (5 episodes)^[12]^[16]
2001	Big Apple	Brigid McNamara	Regular role (5 episodes)^[12]
2003	Sex and the City	Margot	Episode: "A Woman's Right to Shoes"^[12]
2003–2004	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Det. G. Lynn Bishop	Recurring role (7 episodes)^[12]^[16]
2005	Stella	Amy	Regular role (6 episodes)^[12]
2007	Six Degrees	Susan Harriman	Recurring role (5 episodes)^[12]^[16]
2007	Wainy Days	Concerned Woman	Episode: "The Pickup"^[23]
2008	Z Rock	Kitty Braunstein	3 episodes^[23]
2013	Golden Boy	Tara Brunell	TV series^[12]^[16]
2013	Blue Bloods	Sheri Dean	Episode: "Ends and Means"^[12]^[16]
2014	Boardwalk Empire	Apartment Hunting Wife	Episode: "Eldorado"^[16]
2015	Public Morals	Sister Paul Eugene	1 episode^[16]
2016	Vinyl	Allison	2 episodes^[16]
2016	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Sophie Van Nuys	^[16]
2016	Person of Interest	Samaritan Doctor	1 episode^[23]
2020	Hightown	Meredith	1 episode^[16]

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