Samantha Riley appeared on Coronation Street in May 2011, as Phoebe, a young girl in Nick's Bistro who Tyrone Dobbs plucked up the courage to speak to. Graduating from the Arts Educational School of Acting in 2008, she has been credited for roles in Noah and Saskia and short films entitled Work Experience and Let Sleeping Girls Lie. On stage she has appeared in productions of Twelfth Night, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Period of Adjustment, Romeo and Juliet and Accrington Pals.