Sam RichardsonΒ (born January 12, 1984) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Richard Splett in theΒ HBOΒ political comedy seriesΒ VeepΒ (2012β19), co-creating and co-starring in theΒ Comedy CentralΒ comedy seriesΒ DetroitersΒ (2017β18) alongsideΒ Tim Robinson, and for playing various characters in theΒ NetflixΒ sketch showΒ I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (2019βpresent), Aniq Adjaye in theΒ Apple TV+seriesΒ The AfterpartyΒ (2022β23), andΒ Norville RogersΒ in theΒ MaxΒ seriesΒ VelmaΒ (2023β24). In 2022 and 2023, he was nominated for theΒ Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy SeriesΒ for his performance as Edwin Akufo inΒ Ted Lasso, winning the 2023 award in this category. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Richardson (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.