Naomi Grossman
Naomi Grossman was a 2018 Primetime Emmy nominee for "Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama" for her role in Ctrl Alt Delete. Best known as the first crossover character, the fan-favorite "Pepper" on FX's American Horror Story: Asylum & Freak Show, Naomi also appeared as a new character, the Satanist "Samantha Crowe" in the eighth season, Apocalypse. Naomi made #5 of IMDb's "Top 10 Breakout Stars" after her STARmeter skyrocketed to #1, making her the most searched in its entire 8 million person database. Huffington Post, The Wrap, Screen Rant, and Syfy all ranked Pepper among "The Best AHS Characters Ever;" MTV named her their "#1 Good Guy;" Uproxx, their "#1 Most Tragic;" Geek Insider, a "Top 5 Most Underrated AHS Performer," and Entertainment Weekly called her being cast in the role "The Best of 2012." Fans may also recognize her from cameos in the following feature films: Table for Three, The Chair, 1BR, Sky Sharks, Bite Me, Painkillers, The Lurker, Murder RX, The Portal, Preacher Six, An Accidental Zombie (Named Ted), and Fear, Inc. Naomi graduated in theatre from Northwestern University, and is a former member of the Groundlings Sunday Company.
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- 2025 · HIM as Marjorie
- 2025 · Pet Investigators as Patricia Brown
- 2024 · Hauntology as Annalisa Drouais
- 2023 · Obliterated as Janet
- 2023 · Murder Motel as Anna
- 2023 · Oblivious as Willow
- 2022 · The Allnighter as Passenger Ava
- 2021 · Painted with Raven as Self - Guest Judge
- 2021 · American Horror Stories as Rabid Ruth
- 2020 · Sky Sharks as Natalie Rochefort
- 2020 · Superhuman: The Invisible Made Visible as Self
- 2020 · Murder RX as
- 2019 · The Lurker as Grace Fisher
- 2019 · 1BR as Janice
- 2019 · Bite Me as Chrissy
- 2019 · Painkillers as Nurse Sheralyn
- 2018 · Good Girls as Dr. Amanda Johnson
- 2017 · An Accidental Zombie (Named Ted) as Carrie
- 2016 · The Chair as Mother
- 2016 · Fear, Inc. as Cat
- 2011 · American Horror Story as Pepper
- 2011 · American Horror Story as Samantha Crowe
- 2011 · Halloween Wars as Self - Guest Judge
- 2005 · Hell's Kitchen as Self - Restaurant Patron
- Future · The Subscriber as Kitt KO Jones