Samuel Bottomley

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Characters played by Samuel Bottomley

Paddy — How to Have Sex (2023)

Badger's roommate who joins the group's holiday. He pressures Tara into her first sexual experience on the beach and later attempts to initiate sex again. He ultimately commits sexual assault by having intercourse with Tara while she is asleep, treating her with disrespect and emotional distance.

Brian — Anemone (2025)

Brian is Ray Stoker’s estranged son, raised largely without his father and shaped by stories of Ray’s violence and troubled youth. Fascinated by the empty space Ray left behind, he joined the military, but he is now frightened, unstable, and unable to understand what he has become.

Dean Paxton — Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2021)

Dean Paxton is Jamie's school bully and a hostile classmate who also insults Pritti. He threatens to attend Jamie's drag show in order to humiliate him, heckles the performance, fights with him at school, and objects to Jamie attending prom as Mimi Me. By the end, Jamie asks him to set their conflict aside and dance.

Young Goodman — Ghost Stories (2018)

Goodman as a child during the pivotal traumatic memory. He witnesses bullies tricking a disabled boy into a drain and fails to intervene, resulting in the boy's death from an asthma attack. This unresolved guilt fuels the supernatural torment in the narrative.

Ian — Get Duked! (2019)

The academically motivated student who joined the group to boost his college applications. He gets separated during the trek, is captured by the Duke and Duchess, and his distress call triggers the rescue attempt.

Samuel — Tyrannosaur (2011)

Samuel is Joseph's six-year-old neighbour. Joseph encounters him while Samuel's mother is with an abusive boyfriend, and later learns that Samuel has been mauled by a dog. In response, Joseph kills the dog, an act that contributes to his disturbed and dissociated state.

Louis Murphy — The Last Right (2019)

Louis Murphy is Daniel’s autistic brother, who travels with him during the effort to bring the deceased passenger’s body to Rathlin Island. He persuades Daniel to honour the dead man’s burial wish, and is later revealed to be Daniel’s son, having been raised by Daniel’s mother.

Career Overview

Samuel Bottomley has 18 screen credits in a career dating back to 2011. Signature works include How to Have Sex, Anemone, The State of Us. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

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Gender
male
Known Credits
18
Birth Date
2001-06-14
Birth Place
Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK

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