She gained considerable praise for her performances in Mona Lisa (1986), as a teenage prostitute, and Ken Russell's The Rainbow (1989).
In 1988, Sammi Davis had a major supporting role in another Ken Russell movie, The Lair of the White Worm, where she carried the part of the Mary Trent farm resident as Peter Capaldi's love interest.
[1][2] Between 1991 and 1993, Sammi Davis had a lead as Caroline Hailey in the successful American television series, Homefront.
[5][6] After taking a few years out of the film industry to raise her family, she returned to the screen in a cameo role on Lost, playing the mother of Dominic Monaghan's character.
As of 2024, Sammi Davis lives in Sussex with her family, and maintains a well-known corporate photography studio in Barnet, North London.