Sampson portrayed Chip Thorn, the Yellow Mystic Ranger on
Power Rangers Mystic Force which premiered in 2006. He was also the voice of the Sentinel Knight on
Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, and various monsters in subsequent series. Sampson portrays Detective Constable Sam Breen in
The Brokenwood Mysteries, a New Zealand detective, drama television series that premiered on Prime in 2014. In 2014, Sampson won
Best Newcomer at the
New Zealand International Comedy Festival. In 2015 he was nominated for the
Billy T Award and in 2016 Sampson was nominated for the Fred Award for best New Zealand show. Sampson was a writer and performer for NZ news satire show
The Jono Project and
Jono and Ben. Sampson was also a writer and performer for sketch comedy
Funny Girls which ran for three seasons (2015–2018). Sampson is a founding member of Auckland-based improvised comedy collective
Snort. In 2021, Sampson joined
Rose Matafeo and
Alice Snedden as co-writer for the second series of BBC Three and HBO Max's
Starstruck. In 2024, he voiced one of the characters for the film,
Paddington in Peru, and wrote for the
Channel 4 TV show,
Taskmaster Junior. == Filmography ==