Sam Cunningham appeared on Coronation Street in September 2000 as Tina Shapiro, the girlfriend of Jez Quigley who, as part of Jez's plan for revenge, successfully lured Steve McDonald to an isolated car park.
She trained in Acting for Film at the New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Campus and studied Dance at the Intake School of Performing Arts.
Other credits include roles in Seaforth; Queer as Folk; Emmerdale; Big Meg, Little Meg; Children's Ward; Merseybeat; Always and Everyone; Dalziel and Pascoe; Fat Friends and Hollyoaks: Crossing the Line, along with the films There's Only One Jimmy Grimble; Goal! III; East Meets Barry West and A Landscape of Lies.