EXCLUSIVE: Innovative Artists Entertainment has signed Samba Schutte, one of the breakout stars of Vince Gilligan’s hit Apple TV series Pluribus, for representation in theatrical and literary.
An actor, writer, and comedian, Schutter stars alongside Rhea Seehorn, Karolina Wydra, and Carlos-Manuel Vesga in Pluribus, which premiered to a lot of buzz in November and has been renewed for a second season. The show is a sci-fi drama about a world transformed by an alien virus referred to as “the Joining,” which turns most of humanity into a happy hive mind known as “the Others,” leaving only a tiny handful of people immune. Among them is Schutte’s Mr. Diabaté, a Mauritanian who chooses to see the bright side of the situation, cultivating a hedonistic lifestyle of luxury for himself in the penthouse suite at The Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, as Seehorn’s panicked Albuquerque romantasy author Carol Sturka tries fruitlessly to pull him into her quest to save the world.
For his work on Pluribus, Schutte recently earned a Saturn Award nomination for Best Guest Star in a Television Series.
Previously, Schutte starred in Taika Waititi’s HBO Max pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death, and in Mike Schur’s Sunnyside for NBC opposite Kal Penn. He has also appeared in Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s Fox procedural 9-1-1, as well as The Tiger Hunter opposite Danny Pudi, Kevin Pollack and Jon Heder for Netflix.
Over the course of his career, Schutte has also won the biggest national comedy award in Holland, the Jury and Audience Awards at the Leids Cabaret Festival, and toured with three comedy specials which aired on Dutch national TV. A regular performer at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles, he led Weird But True News for Nat Geo Kids, was a correspondent and writer for the Dutch version of The Daily Show, and is featured in the award-winning video games Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
Schutte continues to be represented by Patrick Havern at Established Artists.
