Samantha Morton
Also Known As: Саманта Мортон, サマンサ・モートン, サマンサ・ジェーン・モートン, سامانتا مورتون
Biography: Samantha Jane Morton (born 1977) is an English actress. She is known for her work in independent films with dark and tragic themes, in particular period dramas. She has received numerous accolades, including the BAFTA Fellowship, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Morton was a member of the Central Junior Television Workshop in her native Nottingham and began her career in British television in 1991. She appeared in the ITV series Band of Gold (1995–1996) and the BBC miniseries The History of Tom Jones: a Foundling (1997). Morton's early film roles include Emma (1996), Jane Eyre (1997), and Under the Skin (1997). She received two Academy Award nominations, one for Best Supporting Actress for Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown(1999) and the other for Best Actress for Jim Sheridan's In America (2003). Other notable film credits include Morvern Callar (2002), Minority Report (2002), The Libertine (2004), Control(2007), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Synecdoche, New York (2008), The Messenger (2009), John Carter (2012), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), and The Whale (2022). For her portrayal of Myra Hindley in the Channel 4 and HBO film Longford (2006), she received a Primetime Emmy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe Award nominations. Morton made her directorial debut with the television film The Unloved (2009), which won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Single Drama. She has starred in various programmes, such as The Last Panthers (2015), Rillington Place (2016), Harlots (2017–2019), The Walking Dead (2019–2020), and The Serpent Queen (2022–2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Samantha Morton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
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Birthday: May 13, 1977
Age: 48 years old
Gender: Female
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Minority Report
Overview: John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-20
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In America
Overview: A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-31
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Code 46
Overview: In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria Gonzalez, the woman in charge of the forgeries. After a passionate affair, Gold returns home, having named a coworker as the culprit. But when one of Gonzalez's customers is found dead, Gold is sent back to Shanghai to complete the investigation.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-02
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Overview: When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, she and her shrewd adviser must act to safeguard the lives of her people.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-09
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Max & Ruby's Christmas
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Max & Ruby - A Merry Bunny Christmas
Overview: A Nick Jr. animated preschool series based on the hugely popular storybooks by Rosemary Wells. Max & Ruby celebrates the warm & humorous relationship between Max, an enthusiastic and determined bunny, and his big sister Ruby. The TV series has a distinct look & feel, incorporating 2D characters into a 3D world. Books first launched 1979 & more than a million books have been sold to date.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Synecdoche, New York
Overview: A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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Control
Overview: The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-12
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River Queen
Overview: An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-12
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Jesus' Son
Overview: A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-16
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Emma
Overview: Emma Woodhouse has a rigid sense of propriety as regards matrimonial alliances. Unfortunately she insists on matchmaking for her less forceful friend, Harriet, and so causes her to come to grief. Through the sharp words of Mr. Knightley, and the example of the opinionated Mrs. Elton, someone not unlike herself, Emma's attitudes begin to soften.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-02
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Enduring Love
Overview: Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously in trouble. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. Joe and three other men rush to secure the basket. But fate has other ideas...
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-29
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Sweet and Lowdown
Overview: In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-03
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The Messenger
Overview: Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone, to give notice to the families of fallen soldiers. The Sergeant is drawn to Olivia Pitterson, to whom he has delivered news of her husband’s death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-13
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Pandaemonium
Overview: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate English poetry in the spirt of liberty and democracy. As time goes by, cracks begin to appear in the relationship. Sam becomes addicted to opium, while William's ego and ambition distance him further from his friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-29
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Longford
Overview: A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-26
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Lassie
Overview: A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-16
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The Daisy Chain
Overview: A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to become involved in a series of strange occurrences.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-09
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Mister Lonely
Overview: In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-02
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Jane Eyre
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-09
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This Is the Sea
Overview: The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan (leader in militant underground and pal of Malachy's brother Padhar), who wants Malachy to be recruited and fight for the cause and by Hazel's brother Jef, who spies on her meetings.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-15
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Cosmopolis
Overview: Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo during a riot in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's life begins to crumble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-25
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Morvern Callar
Overview: After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-01
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John Carter
Overview: John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-07
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Expired
Overview: The film revolves around Claire, a kind soul who resents having to enforce the law at all times, and Jay, an angry Traffic Officer who loves his job, being the perfect outlet for his anger and frustrations. Coming both from a place of despair and loneliness, Jay and Claire meet and engage in a tumultuous relationship which will eventually teach them that love can spread redemption.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-19
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Miliband of Brothers
Overview: Charting the rise of the Milliband brother, from their left-wing upbringing to their University days, using dramatized scenes and interviews with people who knew them.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-24
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Under the Skin
Overview: Although married and pregnant Rose has always been mother's favorite, it is younger sister Iris whose life is shaken up by mother's death. Suffocating, Iris spirals out of control and copes by losing herself in sexual oblivion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-28
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Eden
Overview: In 1939, Kalman, an ambitious young businessman, leaves Europe to join his sister Samantha in Palestine. She lives with Dov, an idealistic architect obsessed with the Bauhaus style. With their friends, they form a group, which discusses the future Israeli State.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-29
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Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Overview: Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone else's fantasy, Harry (Lee Ross). When Harry learns that Eva is planning to leave the village in order to live with and look after the injured Lees, he devises a gruesome scheme in order to force her to stay and look after him.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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She Said
Overview: New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-17
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Decoding Annie Parker
Overview: The lives of a breast-cancer patient and a researcher who is trying to prove a genetic link to cancer intersect in a groundbreaking study.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-02
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Miss Julie
Overview: Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-07
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The Harvest
Overview: After becoming orphaned, a lonely girl moves in with her grandparents and tries to befriend a sick, bed-ridden boy next door, despite his mother’s strong objections. Her persistence leads to a friendship, but during secret visits, she uncovers dark secrets in the boy's home.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-10
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The Libertine
Overview: The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-16
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Magik
Overview: Lewis Clark is a brilliant author who stumbles upon a world of Magic after the disappearance of his two young children. He begins a quest to try to stop the insidious evil that threatens to destroy both his new world and his old one.
Genres: Fantasy Animation
Original Language: en
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Cider with Rosie
Overview: A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-27
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Overview: In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-16
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The Entertainment System Is Down
Overview: Set on a long-haul flight where the entertainment systems fail, an eclectic group of international passengers are forced to face the horror of being bored.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
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2073
Overview: Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-27
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Two for Joy
Overview: A troubled family's problems come to a head during a stay in a seaside town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-28
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Angels & Ghosts
Overview: Based on a true story, Angels and Ghosts tells the emotive journey of Amber, a young girl who is on a quest to find her brothers who have disappeared. It's a gripping animated adventure exploring the potent themes of mental health and family bonds. The story, told as a monologue from Amber's perspective, is narrated by Oscar nominated actress Samantha Morton.
Genres: Animation Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-01
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Citizens of Cosmopolis
Overview: An in-depth documentary about the making of David Cronenberg's feature film, Cosmopolis (2012), an adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel of the same name.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-25
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The Future Lasts A Long Time
Overview: Dream-like short film starring Samantha Morton, in one of her earliest screen credits, as one of a couple on the run who hide out in the Fens.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Save the Cinema
Overview: The true story of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and leader of a youth theatre in Carmarthen, Wales, who began a campaign in 1993 to save the Lyric theatre from closure. Alongside then Mayor of Carmarthen Richard Goodridge, they enlisted the help of Steven Spielberg, securing a special premiere of Jurassic Park.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-14
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The Last Yellow
Overview: Two losers try to lift themselves out of the mire by letting their fantasy world take over their lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Whale
Overview: A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-09
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Anemone
Overview: Family bonds between fathers, sons, and brothers are explored as complex relationships unfold through personal journeys and generational conflicts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-10-03
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The Odyssey
Overview: An adaptation of Homer's epic poem of the same name, follow Odysseus in his perilous journey home after the Trojan War, showcasing his encounters with Polyphemus, the Sirens, Circe, and finishing with his reunion with his wife, Penelope.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2026-07-15
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