Samantha Jane Morton was born on 13 May 1977 and is an English actress and director.
61 Facts About Samantha Morton
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Samantha Morton appeared in the ITV series Band of Gold and the BBC miniseries The History of Tom Jones: a Foundling.
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Samantha Morton received two Academy Award nominations, one for Best Supporting Actress for Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, and the other for Best Actress for Jim Sheridan's In America.
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Samantha Morton made her directorial debut with the television film The Unloved, which won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Single Drama.
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Samantha Morton has starred in various programs, such as The Last Panthers, Rillington Place, Harlots, The Walking Dead, and The Serpent Queen.
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Samantha Jane Morton was born in the Clifton area of Nottingham on 13 May 1977, the third child of Pamela, a factory worker, and Peter Morton.
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Samantha Morton has six half-siblings from her parents' relationships subsequent to their 1979 divorce.
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Samantha Morton lived with her father until she was eight, when she was made a ward of court because neither of her parents could care for her and her siblings.
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Samantha Morton's father was an abusive alcoholic, and her mother was involved in a violent relationship with her second husband; as a result, she never lived with her parents again.
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Samantha Morton was convicted of making threats to kill and served 18 weeks in an attendance centre.
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Samantha Morton made her stage debut at the Royal Court Theatre, and continued her television career with appearances in Peak Practice and in an episode of Cracker.
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In Jane Eyre, Samantha Morton starred as a Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor.
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Samantha Morton took on the leading role in the independent drama Under the Skin, directed by Carine Adler, where she played Iris, a woman coping with the death of her mother.
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Samantha Morton won the Best Actress accolade at the 1998 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards and was nominated for the BIFA Award for Best Female Performance in a British Independent Film.
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Samantha Morton played Hattie, a mute laundress and the love interest of Penn's character.
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Samantha Morton earned Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her role, which was especially notable, considering the fact that she does not utter a single word of dialogue in the film.
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Samantha Morton appeared in the biographical drama Pandaemonium, directed by Julien Temple, playing Sara Coleridge, the wife of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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Samantha Morton was nominated for a British Independent Film Award in the category of Best Actress.
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Samantha Morton found wider recognition and mainstream success when she took on the part of a senior precog in Steven Spielberg science fiction thriller Minority Report, opposite Tom Cruise.
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Samantha Morton won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Empire Award for Best British Actress.
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Samantha Morton's performance earned her nominations for the Academy Award, the Independent Spirit Award, and the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award in the category of Best Actress.
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In 2004, Samantha Morton starred as a love interest in the dystopian film Code 46, directed by Michael Winterbottom and alongside Tim Robbins, and played the wife of a man who witnessed a deadly accident in the drama Enduring Love, opposite Rhys Ifans and Daniel Craig.
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Critics were polarized for the latter film and suggested that Samantha Morton did not have enough time on screen.
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Samantha Morton starred alongside Johnny Depp in the little-seen period drama The Libertine, and appeared in the drama Lassie, both of which were released in 2005.
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Samantha Morton received a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards, and won at the 65th Golden Globe Awards.
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Samantha Morton took on roles in four feature films in 2007.
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Samantha Morton starred as a struggling police officer in the romantic drama Expired, and portrayed a Marilyn Monroe impersonator in the dramedy Mister Lonely.
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Samantha Morton worked again with director Anton Corbijn in the biographical film Control, where she appeared as Deborah Curtis, wife of musician Ian Curtis from the band Joy Division, whose biography Touching from a Distance formed the basis of the film.
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Samantha Morton made part of an ensemble cast in Charlie Kaufman's postmodern drama Synecdoche, New York, alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman, Michelle Williams and Emily Watson.
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Samantha Morton discovered that she was pregnant during the filming, which had a schedule that took up to 20 hours a day.
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Samantha Morton was drawn to the "feminine" side of the story and found her part to be "one of the first characters [she has] played in a long time where [she has] felt so much in common", as her brother and stepfather both served as soldiers in the military forces.
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Critical reception towards The Messenger and Samantha Morton was unanimously favorable, with Claudia Puig of USA Today asserting that, Samantha Morton "as always, gives a subtle, excellent performance".
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Samantha Morton was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 14th Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards and the 25th Independent Spirit Awards.
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Samantha Morton wrote the story in collaboration with Tony Grisoni, and The Unloved was first broadcast on 17 May 2009, drawing nearly 2 million viewers.
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Michael Deacon, for The Daily Telegraph, praised Samantha Morton on creating an "intense" and "vivid" dramatic film.
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Samantha Morton provided the voice of Sola in the science fiction film John Carter, based on A Princess of Mars, which received mixed reviews and flopped at the box office.
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Samantha Morton next played a chief of theory in the thriller Cosmopolis, directed by David Cronenberg.
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Samantha Morton's role, described as "misjudged" by The Guardian, earned her a nomination as Best Actress in a Canadian Film Award at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle.
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Samantha Morton served as a jury member at the 69th Venice International Film Festival in 2012.
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Samantha Morton was the original voice of the artificially intelligent operating system in the 2013 romantic science fiction drama Her directed by Spike Jonze, but in post-production, she was replaced by Scarlett Johansson.
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Samantha Morton starred in the independent drama Decoding Annie Parker opposite Helen Hunt, playing a woman with breast cancer.
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Samantha Morton was awarded the Best Actress Golden Space Needle Award at the 2013 Seattle International Film Festival.
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Samantha Morton starred opposite Michael Shannon in the independent thriller The Harvest, as a controlling mother keeping her sick son in a secluded environment.
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Samantha Morton's performance earned her a Best Actress Award nomination at the 2014 BloodGuts UK Horror Awards.
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In Liv Ullmann's film adaptation Miss Julie, alongside Colin Farrell and Jessica Chastain, Samantha Morton portrayed Kathleen, the fiancee of a valet who finds himself seduced by the daughter of an Anglo-Irish aristocracy.
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In 2015, Samantha Morton starred as a mother in the First World War context in Cider with Rosie, a made-for-television adaptation of the book of the same name by Laurie Lee, and took on the role of an insurance investigator charged with recovering stolen diamonds in the European limited television series The Last Panthers, inspired by the notorious Balkan jewel thieves the Pink Panthers.
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Samantha Morton appeared in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a spin-off from the Harry Potter film series, with a screenplay by JK Rowling.
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Samantha Morton filmed the three-part television crime drama Rillington Place, based on the case of serial killer John Christie, who murdered several women in London during 1940s and early 1950s.
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Samantha Morton was cast opposite Tim Roth as Christie's wife, Ethel.
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Samantha Morton portrays Margaret Wells, the madam of a low-class brothel who seeks to improve her fortunes.
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In July 2018, it was announced that Samantha Morton had been cast in the role of Alpha in The Walking Dead, making her first appearance in February 2019.
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Samantha Morton dated actor Charlie Creed-Miles, whom she met on the set of the film The Last Yellow, in 1999.
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Samantha Morton met filmmaker Harry Holm while filming a music video for the band the Vitamins.
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In early 2008, Samantha Morton revealed that she had been "close to death" after suffering a debilitating stroke due to being hit by a piece of 17th-century plaster that fell on her head in 2006.
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Samantha Morton was in hospital for three weeks after the incident.
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Samantha Morton withdrew from the public spotlight and took an 18-month break from film acting in order to learn to walk again.
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In 2011, Samantha Morton wrote an open letter hoping her stepfather would get back in touch with her after being estranged for several years.
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On 20 July 2011, Samantha Morton received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Nottingham Trent University, "in recognition of her internationally successful acting career".
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In March 2009, Samantha Morton returned to her hometown to show her support for its children's homes and protest against the threatened closure, by Nottingham City Council, of one of the four establishments with 24 social-care staff facing redundancy.
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Samantha Morton had discussed the abuse previously while promoting the semi-autobiographical drama The Unloved, in an article for The Guardian.
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Samantha Morton was later joined by Tam Dean Burn, Pauline Goldsmith, Peter Mullan, and Alison Peebles, who threatened to boycott the corporation.