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Samantha Jane Morton (born 13 May 1977) is an English actress and film director. She began her performing career with guest roles in television shows such as Soldier Soldier and Boon before making her film debut in the 1997 drama film This Is the Sea, playing the character of Hazel Stokes. After a string of roles in low-budget and television films, she landed the role of Hattie in 1999's Sweet and Lowdown, for which she received the attention from Hollywood, the critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Morton subsequently starred in 2002's Minority Report and Morvern Callar. She received her second Academy Award nomination for her performance as the young Irish mother coping with life in New York City, Sarah, in 2003's In America. Morton starred in 2004's Enduring Love and The Libertine and 2005's Lassie. She received won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Movie for her role as ... Show more...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Samantha Jane Morton (born 13 May 1977) is an English actress and film director. She began her performing career with guest roles in television shows such as Soldier Soldier and Boon before making her film debut in the 1997 drama film This Is the Sea, playing the character of Hazel Stokes. After a string of roles in low-budget and television films, she landed the role of Hattie in 1999's Sweet and Lowdown, for which she received the attention from Hollywood, the critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Morton subsequently starred in 2002's Minority Report and Morvern Callar. She received her second Academy Award nomination for her performance as the young Irish mother coping with life in New York City, Sarah, in 2003's In America. Morton starred in 2004's Enduring Love and The Libertine and 2005's Lassie. She received won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Movie for her role as Myra Hindley in 2006's Longford. She appeared in the 2007 biographical films Control, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Mister Lonely, and she starred in 2008's Synecdoche, New York. Morton appeared in the 2009 critically acclaimed The Messenger. She made her directorial debut in the English television film The Unloved.
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Two for Joy (2018)
As: Aisha
Coming of age drama following a daughter, her mother and her wayward younger brother as their relationship reaches critical mass.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Tom Beard
Stars: Daniel Mays | Samantha Morton | Billie Piper | Bella Ramsey | Badger Skelton
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
As: Mary Lou Barebone
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.
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: David Yates
Stars: Colin Farrell | Dan Fogler | Eddie Redmayne | Katherine Waterston | Alison Sudol
Cider With Rosie (2015)
As: Annie Lee
A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Philippa Lowthorpe
Stars: Timothy Spall | June Whitfield | Samantha Morton | Shola Adewusi | Finn Bennett
Magik (2015)
As: Lucia
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.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Stephen Wallis
Stars: Dominique Swain | Benedict Cumberbatch | Matthew Goode | Jim Broadbent | Samantha Morton
Miss Julie (2014)
As: Kathleen
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.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Liv Ullmann
Stars: Colin Farrell | Jessica Chastain | Samantha Morton | Nora McMenamy
Angels & Ghosts (2013)
As: Amber Crick (voice)
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.
Runtime: 15 min.
Directed by: Sara Kenney
Stars: Samantha Morton
The Harvest (2013)
As: Katherine
Maryann moves in with her grandparents after she's orphaned. Desperately lonely, she sets out to befriend a neighboring deathly ill, bed-ridden boy, despite the outright disapproval of his mother. Maryann's persistence pays off, however, and during a series of secret visits she gradually uncovers some seriously sinister goings-on in the house.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: John McNaughton
Stars: Charlie Tahan | Michael Shannon | Peter Fonda | Samantha Morton | Natasha Calis
Decoding Annie Parker (2013)
As: Annie Parker
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.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Steven Bernstein
Stars: Helen Hunt | Alice Eve | Maggie Grace | Aaron Paul | Samantha Morton
Cosmopolis (2012)
As: Vija Kinsky
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.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Stars: Paul Giamatti | Robert Pattinson | Juliette Binoche | Sarah Gadon | Samantha Morton
John Carter (2012)
As: Sola
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.
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Andrew Stanton
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Taylor Kitsch | Thomas Haden Church | Lynn Collins | Samantha Morton
The Messenger (2009)
As: Olivia Pitterson
Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), 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 (Woody Harrelson), to give notice to the families of fallen soldiers. The Sergeant is drawn to Olivia Pitterson (Samantha Morton), to whom he has delivered news of her husband’s death.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Oren Moverman
Stars: Eamonn Walker | Woody Harrelson | Ben Foster | Jena Malone | Samantha Morton
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
As: Hazel
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.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Charlie Kaufman
Stars: Michelle Williams | Catherine Keener | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Samantha Morton
The Daisy Chain (2008)
As: Martha Conroy
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.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Aisling Walsh
Stars: Steven Mackintosh | Mhairi Anderson | Eva Birthistle | David Bradley | Samantha Morton
Control (2007)
As: Debbie Curtis
Control is the biography of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, taking his story from schoolboy days of 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Anton Corbijn
Stars: Joe Anderson | Alexandra Maria Lara | Samantha Morton | James Anthony Pearson | Sam Riley
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
As: Queen Mary
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 to the lives of her people.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Shekhar Kapur
Stars: Cate Blanchett | Geoffrey Rush | Clive Owen | Tom Hollander | Laurence Fox
Mister Lonely (2007)
As: Marilyn Monroe
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.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Harmony Korine
Stars: Diego Luna | James Fox | Denis Lavant | Werner Herzog | Samantha Morton
Expired (2007)
As: Claire Barney
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.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Cecilia Miniucchi
Stars: Jason Patric | Illeana Douglas | Teri Garr | Samantha Morton | Sonia Iris Lozada
Longford (2006)
As: Myra Hindley
A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Tom Hooper
Stars: Andy Serkis | Lindsay Duncan | Jim Broadbent | Samantha Morton | Kate Miles
Free Jimmy (2006)
As: Sonia (voice)
Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Christopher Nielsen
Stars: Simon Pegg | Woody Harrelson | Kyle MacLachlan | Phil Daniels | Samantha Morton
Lassie (2005)
As: Sarah Carraclough
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.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Charles Sturridge
Stars: John Lynch | Peter Dinklage | Peter O'Toole | Samantha Morton | Jonathan Mason
River Queen (2005)
As: Sarah O'Brien
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.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Vincent Ward
Stars: Kiefer Sutherland | Stephen Rea | Cliff Curtis | Temuera Morrison | Samantha Morton
Enduring Love (2004)
As: Claire
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 ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Roger Michell
Stars: Rhys Ifans | Bill Nighy | Susan Lynch | Samantha Morton | Daniel Craig
The Libertine (2004)
As: Elizabeth Barry
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.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Laurence Dunmore
Stars: Rosamund Pike | John Malkovich | Johnny Depp | Paul Ritter | Samantha Morton
Code 46 (2003)
As: Maria Gonzales
A futuristic 'Brief Encounter', a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Tim Robbins | Om Puri | Emil Marwa | Nabil Elouahabi | Samantha Morton
In America (2002)
As: Sarah
An Irish immigrant family adjusts to life in the United States, a chance to get over the lost son. They have no money and the apartment is in bad condition.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Jim Sheridan
Stars: Djimon Hounsou | Paddy Considine | Sarah Bolger | Samantha Morton | Emma Bolger
Minority Report (2002)
As: Agatha
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.
Runtime: 145 min.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Colin Farrell | Max von Sydow | Lois Smith | Tom Cruise | Samantha Morton
Morvern Callar (2002)
As: Morvern Callar
Morvern Callar wakes on Christmas morning to discover that her troubled boyfriend has committed suicide, leaving behind the unpublished manuscript to his first novel and a sum of money intended to pay for his burial. Instead, Morvern attempts to use both to reinvent her life.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Lynne Ramsay
Stars: Paul Popplewell | Dolly Wells | Samantha Morton | Kathleen McDermott | James Wilson
Eden (2001)
As: Sam
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. A loose adaptation of Arthur Miller's novel "Homely Girl, A Life".
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Amos Gitai
Stars: Danny Huston | Thomas Jane | Samantha Morton | Daphna Kastner | Luke Holland
Pandaemonium (2001)
As: Sara Coleridge
Set in England during the early 19th century, Pandaemonium evokes late-1960s America in its depiction of the relationship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Linus Roach) and William Wordsworth (John Hannah). Instead of going to Vietnam, Wordsworth goes off to fight against the French while Coleridge stays at home and promotes utopianism. After the war, the poets live and work together ...
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Julien Temple
Stars: Andrea Lowe | John Hannah | Linus Roache | Samantha Morton | Emily Woof
Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
As: Hattie
A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Tony Darrow | Woody Allen | Dan Moran | Daniel Okrent | Ben Duncan (DJ)
Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
As: Eva
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 ...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Eric Styles
Stars: Rupert Graves | Nicholas Woodeson | Samantha Morton | Felix Billson | Lee Ross
Jesus' Son (1999)
As: Michelle
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Alison Maclean
Stars: Dennis Hopper | Jack Black | Denis Leary | Billy Crudup | Samantha Morton
Under the Skin (1997)
As: Iris Kelly
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. She leaves her steady, Gary, for a steady stream of one night stands in the arms of mysterious strangers, alienating Gary, Rose, her friends, and her employers in the process. ...
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Carine Adler
Stars: Christine Tremarco | Rita Tushingham | Samantha Morton | Stuart Townsend | Claire Rushbrook
Jane Eyre (1997)
As: Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is filmed yet again. The story of the Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor is given a standard romantic flare, but sparks do not seem to happen between the two leads in this version.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Robert Young
Stars: Ciarán Hinds | Gemma Jones | Samantha Morton | Deborah Findlay | Laura Harling
This Is the Sea (1997)
As: Hazel Stokes
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.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Mary McGuckian
Stars: Richard Harris | John Lynch | Gabriel Byrne | Samantha Morton | Ross McDade
Emma (1996)
As: Harriet Smith
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.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Diarmuid Lawrence
Stars: Mark Strong | Kate Beckinsale | James Hazeldine | Bernard Hepton | Samantha Bond