Samantha Jane
Morton (born 13 May 1977) is an English actress, screenwriter and director. She
has received critical acclaim and numerous accolades throughout her career,
including one BAFTA TV
Award, one Golden Globe Award and has been nominated twice for an Academy Award and once for
an Emmy Award. She has often
been described as one of the greatest actors of her generation.
Morton began her
acting career with guest roles in television shows such as Soldier Soldier and Cracker, before appearing
from 1995 to 1996 in the ITV drama Band of Gold. She then starred
in the period dramas and coming-of-age features Emma, Jane Eyre and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. The well-received Under the
Skin (1997) made
director Woody Allen cast Morton in Sweet and Lowdown (1999), which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She then went on
to play critically praised roles in smaller and independent projects such as Morvern
Callar (2002) and In America (2003). For the latter, she received a second
Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actress, for her
performance as the young Irish mother, Sarah, coping with life in New York City. At this time, she also found
commercial success with 2002's science fiction thriller Minority
Report, opposite Tom Cruise. For her role as Myra Hindley in 2006's Longford, she won a Golden Globe
Award for Best Supporting Actress (television).
In 2007, Morton
appeared in the biographical films Control (as Deborah Curtis), and Elizabeth:
The Golden Age (as Mary, Queen
of Scots). The same year, she also played a Marilyn Monroe impersonator
in Mister Lonely. She went on to star in Synecdoche,
New York (2008) and The Messenger (2009). She made her directorial début with the
2009 British television film The Unloved, for which she won a BAFTA
Television Award for Best Single Drama. After a three-year withdrawal from
film, she appeared in John Carter (2012), Cosmopolis (2012), Decoding
Annie Parker (2013), and the
2014 period film Miss Julie, directed by Liv Ullmann.
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