Samba Schutte

Biography

Samba Schutte is a Mauritanian-Dutch actor, comedian, and writer born in Nouakchott, Mauritania, to a Mauritanian Muslim mother and Dutch Christian father. He studied theatre at the Utrecht School of the Arts before transitioning into stand-up comedy, gaining recognition for his work with Comedy Explosion and winning awards at the Leids Cabaret Festival. Schutte's breakthrough roles include Roach in Our Flag Means Death and Hakim in Sunnyside, a pioneering Ethiopian character in an American sitcom.