Background
Samantha becomes the only Government minister left after the virus. Beforehand, she had been the main Government official in charge of dealing with the virus which, she had learned, was incurable and would wipe out over 99% of the world's population. The Prime Minister, her other colleagues and her family have all died from the virus. She moves into a small ecopolis, which is a completely self-sufficient facilty where she establishes a Provisional Government.
Series One
Her aims are to restore order and absolute moral and legal law, despite the vulgarity and brutishness of the duties she assumes, including executing a woman put on trial and found guilty of having invaded the complex looking for supplies. Later she forms an uneasy alliance with Dexter, a violent gang leader who had been threatening her community.
Series Two
Samantha Willis returns in the second series continuing her ambitious plans for expansion, aided and abetted by her henchman Dexter. As the number of compromises she makes grows, how much longer can her dreams of justice and fair governance last?
Nikki Amuka-Bird
Nikki Amuka-Bird (born 1976) is a Nigerian born British actress of the stage and screen. Her theatrical credits include Twelfth Night (Bristol Old Vic); World Music (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield and Donmar Warehouse); Top Girls (Oxford Stage Company); A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest and The Servant of Two Masters (Royal Shakespeare Company); Doubt: A Parable (Tricycle Theatre). She is married to the actor Geoffrey Streatfield.
Her film credits include The Omen (2006 remake), Cargo, Almost Heaven as well as the screen adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith's novel The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. On television, she has appeared in Spooks, The Line of Beauty, The Last Enemy, Robin Hood and Torchwood. She is currently playing Samantha Willis - the last surviving member of the government - in the reimagined BBC apocalyptic series Survivors. In 2010 she appeared as Det Supt Gaynor Jenkins in the BBC's Silent Witness.
She appeared in the BBC adaptation of Andrea Levy's award winning novel, Small Island, broadcast in December 2009. [1]