Samuel Kujala is a Finnish actor. In March 2026, he received the Jussi Award for Best Leading Actor, Finland’s highest film acting honor, for his performance in A Light That Never Goes Out. The film premiered in the ACID section of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, screened at numerous international festivals and was theatrically released in France, introducing Kujala's work to audiences far beyond his native Finland. He first gained national recognition in the lead role of the hit drama series Nörtti: DragonSlayer666, earning a Golden Venla Award nomination for Best Male Actor in 2018. Since then, Kujala has demonstrated remarkable range across film and television, He trained rigorously for months to portray a professional dancer in Netflix’s Dance Brothers (2023) and later, transformed into a violent gang prospect in Port Poison (2024), in My Name is Dingo (2024), he portrayed the keyboardist of the famous Finnish rock band of the 1980s. How to Shout (2025). In Fucking with Nobody (2020), which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and later screened at SXSW and Rotterdam, he explored the blurred boundaries between performance and reality in a contemporary meta-comedy.