Sami Antero Järvi (born 28 March 1970), better known by his artist name Sam Lake ('Järvi' is Finnish for lake), is a Finnish writer and actor, known for his work (as well as his likeness) on the popular Max Payne video game series and for writing Alan Wake.
Lake is good friends with Petri Järvilehto, a founding member of Remedy Entertainment, the company behind Max Payne.
Järvilehto needed help with script-writing in one of Remedy's early games, Death Rally, and invited Lake to write.
Lake also wrote the scripts for the 2016 video game Quantum Break, and the 2019 video game Control.