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 Samantha Morton has established herself as one of the finest actors of her generation, winning Oscar nominations for her turns in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and Jim Sheridan's In America (2002). She has the talent to become one of the major performers in the cinema of this young century.Samantha Morton was born on May 13, 1977 in Nottingham, England to parents who divorced when she was three years old. Peter and Pamela Morton took other spouses and made Samantha part of a mixed family of 13; she has eight brothers and sisters. She turned to play-acting early in her life, while she was a school-girl.At 13, she left regular school to train as an actress at the Central Junior Television Workshop, where she learned her craft for three years. It was at the end of her training then that she decided that a life as a professional actress was for her.She honed her skills in television roles, working her way up from series television to TV-movies and prestigious mini-series, such as Emma (1996) and Jane Eyre (1997). Her first major film role, Under the Skin (1997), won her the Best Actress Award from the Boston Film Critics Society. Woody Allen cast her as Hattie, the "dumb" (unspeaking) lover of Sean Penn's caddish jazz guitarist in Sweet and Lowdown (1999), a beautiful performance in a role that could have flummoxed a less-talented performer. Penn was Oscar-nominated for his performance, but it was Morton's Hattie that was central to the success of the film, Allen's last unqualified success. She provided the moral and narrative center of the film. It was quite a remarkable performance for a 21-year old as she had to do all her acting with her face, having been shorn of her voice. The role of Hattie won Morton a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination.Ironically, Morton had never seen a Woody Allen movie before. (She grew up watching the TV and listening to the radio.) She agreed to do the film after reading the script (as she says, well-written roles for women are hard to find), and the movie made her a hot commodity in Hollywood after she won the Oscar nomination. (She lost out to Angelina Jolie). Morton was offered many roles, but was very choosy as she was not in acting as a game with a payoff of stardom and money.She had consolidated her reputation by following up the Allen film with work in indie features that showed that she was not only talented, but quite courageous as a performer. She played a heroin addict in the underrated Jesus' Son (1999) and gave a brilliant performance in Morvern Callar (2002), the story of a Scottish supermarket clerk coping with her boyfriend's suicide.Steven Spielberg cast her, opposite superstar Tom Cruise, as the clairvoyant in Minority Report (2002), in which she more than held her own opposite Cruise and the special effects. (She took the role as Cruise and Steven Spielberg are favorites of hers). As good as she was, Morton was better served by Irish director Jim Sheridan, Sheridan cast her as a character modeled after his wife in an autobiographical picture more in line with persona and that made better use of her talents. Her performance as the young Irish mother coping with life in New York City in In America (2002) won her numerous critics' awards and another Oscar nod, this time as Best Actress.At this point, one feels that the odds of her winning the Oscar are even or better. Samantha Morton continues to deliver fine work in provocative films such as Michael Winterbottom's Code 46 (2003), though she is branching out towards the mainstream, taking a role in the remake of that perennial family favorite, Lassie (2005).Born in Nottingham, England and trained at the Central Junior Television Workshop, Samantha's first television work came at the age of 13. Since then, she has played many minor TV roles in such dramas as Cracker (1993), Peak Practice (1993), Boon (1986), Soldier Soldier (1991) and Medics (1990), before reaching the big time with major roles in such TV movies and mini-series as Band of Gold (1995), Emma (1996), Jane Eyre (1997) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1997).
Bio:
Samantha Morton has established herself as one of the finest actors of her generation, winning Oscar nominations for her turns in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and Jim Sheridan's In America (2002). She has the talent to become one of the major performers in the cinema of this young century.Samantha Morton was born on May 13, 1977 in Nottingham, England to parents who divorced when she was three years old. Peter and Pamela Morton took other spouses and made Samantha part of a mixed family of 13; she has eight brothers and sisters. She turned to play-acting early in her life, while she was a school-girl.At 13, she left regular school to train as an actress at the Central Junior Television Workshop, where she learned her craft for three years. It was at the end of her training then that she decided that a life as a professional actress was for her.She honed her skills in television roles, working her way up from series television to TV-movies and prestigious mini-series, such as Emma (1996) and Jane Eyre (1997). Her first major film role, Under the Skin (1997), won her the Best Actress Award from the Boston Film Critics Society. Woody Allen cast her as Hattie, the "dumb" (unspeaking) lover of Sean Penn's caddish jazz guitarist in Sweet and Lowdown (1999), a beautiful performance in a role that could have flummoxed a less-talented performer. Penn was Oscar-nominated for his performance, but it was Morton's Hattie that was central to the success of the film, Allen's last unqualified success. She provided the moral and narrative center of the film. It was quite a remarkable performance for a 21-year old as she had to do all her acting with her face, having been shorn of her voice. The role of Hattie won Morton a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination.Ironically, Morton had never seen a Woody Allen movie before. (She grew up watching the TV and listening to the radio.) She agreed to do the film after reading the script (as she says, well-written roles for women are hard to find), and the movie made her a hot commodity in Hollywood after she won the Oscar nomination. (She lost out to Angelina Jolie). Morton was offered many roles, but was very choosy as she was not in acting as a game with a payoff of stardom and money.She had consolidated her reputation by following up the Allen film with work in indie features that showed that she was not only talented, but quite courageous as a performer. She played a heroin addict in the underrated Jesus' Son (1999) and gave a brilliant performance in Morvern Callar (2002), the story of a Scottish supermarket clerk coping with her boyfriend's suicide.Steven Spielberg cast her, opposite superstar Tom Cruise, as the clairvoyant in Minority Report (2002), in which she more than held her own opposite Cruise and the special effects. (She took the role as Cruise and Steven Spielberg are favorites of hers). As good as she was, Morton was better served by Irish director Jim Sheridan, Sheridan cast her as a character modeled after his wife in an autobiographical picture more in line with persona and that made better use of her talents. Her performance as the young Irish mother coping with life in New York City in In America (2002) won her numerous critics' awards and another Oscar nod, this time as Best Actress.At this point, one feels that the odds of her winning the Oscar are even or better. Samantha Morton continues to deliver fine work in provocative films such as Michael Winterbottom's Code 46 (2003), though she is branching out towards the mainstream, taking a role in the remake of that perennial family favorite, Lassie (2005).
Born in Nottingham, England and trained at the Central Junior Television Workshop, Samantha's first television work came at the age of 13. Since then, she has played many minor TV roles in such dramas as Cracker (1993), Peak Practice (1993), Boon (1986), Soldier Soldier (1991) and Medics (1990), before reaching the big time with major roles in such TV movies and mini-series as Band of Gold (1995), Emma (1996), Jane Eyre (1997) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1997).
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Was the original voice of Samantha in Her (2013). She was actually on set interacting with Joaquin Phoenix, not alone in a studio, but her voice was replaced during post-production with Scarlett Johansson's voice.In early 2008, she 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 (damaging her vertebral artery) when filming for Transsiberian (2008) in 2006 causing partial paralysis and loss of vision and was replaced by Emily Mortimer. She was in hospital for three weeks after the incident. She withdrew from the public spotlight and took an 18-month break from film acting to spent time in physical and speech therapy, learning how to walk and remaster her speaking skills. She went straight from therapy into filming Synecdoche, New York (2008). She reports "I still have a slight dis-fluency, sentences are spaced differently, but I was given a clean bill of health.".At 14, she was convicted of making threats to kill and sentenced to 18 weeks at an attendance center. She was originally charged with attempted murder. The incident occurred at a children's home in Nottingham during a riot.Dropped out of school at 13.Was homeless for almost a year, sleeping at friends' houses or in bus shelters between the ages 13 - 14.She has a reputation for being difficult on set, by her own admission: in an interview given with The Guardian Weekend magazine in 2009, she stated that it was fair enough to tell crew members to shut it if they were chatting away while she was giving it her all - she works hard and expects others to do so, too.Had a serious drug problem from age 14 onwards.Her parents split up when she was just three and she lived with her father until she was eight when she was made a ward of court, because neither of her parents could take care of her and her siblings. Her father was an abusive alcoholic and the mother trapped in a violent relationship with her second husband.Has eight siblings.Her daughter Esme Creed-Miles appeared alongside her in Mister Lonely (2007).Was Terry Gilliam's original choice for the role of Angelika in The Brothers Grimm (2005), but Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein vetoed it. According to Morton, they said the tops of her arms were "too fat" and "You think Matt [Damon] or Heath [Ledger] would want to fuck that?". She was replaced by Lena Headey.Turned down the role of Lisa in Girl, Interrupted (1999) and Angelina Jolie was cast instead. At the 72nd Academy Awards in 2000 Jolie won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in which Morton was nominated in the same category for Sweet and Lowdown (1999).Has three children: a daughter Esme Creed-Miles (b. February 5, 2000) with her ex-boyfriend Charlie Creed-Miles (they dated from 1999 to 2000); a daughter Edie Holm (b. January 4, 2008 in London) and a son Theodore Holm (b. 2012) with her boyfriend Harry Holm (they are dating since 2005).Was actually the third choice to play Agatha in Minority Report (2002); Cate Blanchett, Jenna Elfman and Kate Winslet all turned it down.Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her daughter Edie in order to begin filming The Messenger (2009).Was Paddy Considine's first choice for his directorial debut Tyrannosaur (2011) but had to turn it down due to being pregnant with her third child at the time. Olivia Colman was cast instead. She worked with Considine in In America (2002).Wanted a role in Love Actually (2003) but was turned down in favor of Martine McCutcheon and Keira Knightley.Turned down the title role in Iris (2001) and Kate Winslet was cast instead.Moved to London from Nottingham at 16.She has stated that, if she weren't an actress, she might work in social care or politics, and intends to combine her acting work with it some day.Has shaved her head for two parts as Agatha in Minority Report (2002) and as Alpha in The Walking Dead (2010).Co-starred with U2 drummer Larry Mullen, in the Director's cut video for the 2002 single "Electrical Storm" from the band's The Best Of 1990-2000 album release. The video was filmed in the south of France and directed by Anton Corbijn.Born in a Nottingham council estate.Was originally cast as Diane Arbus in Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) and Nicole Kidman was cast instead.Is just 12 years older than Jessica Brown Findlay, who played her daughter on Harlots (2017).Woody Allen cast her in Sweet and Lowdown (1999) after seeing Under the Skin (1997).Attended The West Bridgford Comprehensive School, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham. The school has a book containing newspaper cuttings of her achievements in the reception.Dropped out of Pride and Glory (2008) and was replaced by Jennifer Ehle. This would have been her second time working with Colin Farrell.Has two siblings, a brother and a sister. Beothe Marcus (born 1971) is a Royal Marine, sister Penny (born 1972) works with children with learning disabilities.Turned down the role of Ophelia in Hamlet (2000) due to scheduling conflicts with Sweet and Lowdown (1999). In The Libertine (2004) she played the actress Elizabeth Barry who in the film plays a stunning Ophelia on stage.Parents split up when she was three. The children stayed with their father.She has appeared in three films with Colin Farrell: Minority Report (2002), Miss Julie (2014) and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016).Cousin of the actor Daniel Morton yet they have never worked together.She coached fellow-Nottingham and BAFTA TV Award-winning actress Vicky McClure at the Central Junior Television Workshop.Is just 14 years older than Sarah Bolger and 19 years older than Emma Bolger, who played her daughters on In America (2002).Has played a sex worker twice in Band of Gold (1995) and Harlots (2017).Parents' names are Peter and Pamela.Is one of 19 actresses to have received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for a performance where they acted out a labor and/or birth; hers being for In America (2002). The others in chronological order are Luise Rainer for The Good Earth (1937), Jane Wyman for Johnny Belinda (1948), Eleanor Parker for Caged (1950), Elizabeth Taylor for Raintree County (1957), Leslie Caron for The L-Shaped Room (1962), Shirley MacLaine for Irma la Douce (1963), Vanessa Redgrave for Isadora (1968), Genevi��ve Bujold for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Marsha Mason for Cinderella Liberty (1973), Ann-Margret for Tommy (1975), Ellen Burstyn for Same Time, Next Year (1978), Jessica Lange for Sweet Dreams (1985), Meryl Streep for A Cry in the Dark (1988), Elliot Page for Juno (2007), Gabourey Sidibe for Precious (2009), Ruth Negga for Loving (2016), Yalitza Aparicio for Roma (2018) and Vanessa Kirby for Pieces of a Woman (2020).Molly Windsor who starred in her directorial debut The Unloved (2009) was attending the Central Junior Television Workshop at the time of casting and filming where Morton had also taken acting lessons as a teenager in the 1980s.As of 2018, has never appeared in a film nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. |
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Samantha Morton |
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Samantha Morton has established herself as one of the finest actors of her generation, winning Oscar nominations for her turns in Woody Allen\'s Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and Jim Sheridan\'s In America (2002). She has the talent to become one of the m |
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Was the original voice of Samantha in Her (2013). She was actually on set interacting with Joaquin Phoenix, not alone in a studio, but her voice was replaced during post-production with Scarlett Johansson's voice.In early 2008, she 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 (damaging her vertebral artery) when filming for Transsiberian (2008) in 2006 causing partial paralysis and loss of vision and was replaced by Emily Mortimer. She was in hospital for three weeks after the incident. She withdrew from the public spotlight and took an 18-month break from film acting to spent time in physical and speech therapy, learning how to walk and remaster her speaking skills. She went straight from therapy into filming Synecdoche, New York (2008). She reports "I still have a slight dis-fluency, sentences are spaced differently, but I was given a clean bill of health.".At 14, she was convicted of making threats to kill and sentenced to 18 weeks at an attendance center. She was originally charged with attempted murder. The incident occurred at a children's home in Nottingham during a riot.Dropped out of school at 13.Was homeless for almost a year, sleeping at friends' houses or in bus shelters between the ages 13 - 14.She has a reputation for being difficult on set, by her own admission: in an interview given with The Guardian Weekend magazine in 2009, she stated that it was fair enough to tell crew members to shut it if they were chatting away while she was giving it her all - she works hard and expects others to do so, too.Had a serious drug problem from age 14 onwards.Her parents split up when she was just three and she lived with her father until she was eight when she was made a ward of court, because neither of her parents could take care of her and her siblings. Her father was an abusive alcoholic and the mother trapped in a violent relationship with her second husband.Has eight siblings.Her daughter Esme Creed-Miles appeared alongside her in Mister Lonely (2007).Was Terry Gilliam's original choice for the role of Angelika in The Brothers Grimm (2005), but Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein vetoed it. According to Morton, they said the tops of her arms were "too fat" and "You think Matt [Damon] or Heath [Ledger] would want to fuck that?". She was replaced by Lena Headey.Turned down the role of Lisa in Girl, Interrupted (1999) and Angelina Jolie was cast instead. At the 72nd Academy Awards in 2000 Jolie won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in which Morton was nominated in the same category for Sweet and Lowdown (1999).Has three children: a daughter Esme Creed-Miles (b. February 5, 2000) with her ex-boyfriend Charlie Creed-Miles (they dated from 1999 to 2000); a daughter Edie Holm (b. January 4, 2008 in London) and a son Theodore Holm (b. 2012) with her boyfriend Harry Holm (they are dating since 2005).Was actually the third choice to play Agatha in Minority Report (2002); Cate Blanchett, Jenna Elfman and Kate Winslet all turned it down.Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her daughter Edie in order to begin filming The Messenger (2009).Was Paddy Considine's first choice for his directorial debut Tyrannosaur (2011) but had to turn it down due to being pregnant with her third child at the time. Olivia Colman was cast instead. She worked with Considine in In America (2002).Wanted a role in Love Actually (2003) but was turned down in favor of Martine McCutcheon and Keira Knightley.Turned down the title role in Iris (2001) and Kate Winslet was cast instead.Moved to London from Nottingham at 16.She has stated that, if she weren't an actress, she might work in social care or politics, and intends to combine her acting work with it some day.Has shaved her head for two parts as Agatha in Minority Report (2002) and as Alpha in The Walking Dead (2010).Co-starred with U2 drummer Larry Mullen, in the Director's cut video for the 2002 single "Electrical Storm" from the band's The Best Of 1990-2000 album release. The video was filmed in the south of France and directed by Anton Corbijn.Born in a Nottingham council estate.Was originally cast as Diane Arbus in Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) and Nicole Kidman was cast instead.Is just 12 years older than Jessica Brown Findlay, who played her daughter on Harlots (2017).Woody Allen cast her in Sweet and Lowdown (1999) after seeing Under the Skin (1997).Attended The West Bridgford Comprehensive School, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham. The school has a book containing newspaper cuttings of her achievements in the reception.Dropped out of Pride and Glory (2008) and was replaced by Jennifer Ehle. This would have been her second time working with Colin Farrell.Has two siblings, a brother and a sister. Beothe Marcus (born 1971) is a Royal Marine, sister Penny (born 1972) works with children with learning disabilities.Turned down the role of Ophelia in Hamlet (2000) due to scheduling conflicts with Sweet and Lowdown (1999). In The Libertine (2004) she played the actress Elizabeth Barry who in the film plays a stunning Ophelia on stage.Parents split up when she was three. The children stayed with their father.She has appeared in three films with Colin Farrell: Minority Report (2002), Miss Julie (2014) and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016).Cousin of the actor Daniel Morton yet they have never worked together.She coached fellow-Nottingham and BAFTA TV Award-winning actress Vicky McClure at the Central Junior Television Workshop.Is just 14 years older than Sarah Bolger and 19 years older than Emma Bolger, who played her daughters on In America (2002).Has played a sex worker twice in Band of Gold (1995) and Harlots (2017).Parents' names are Peter and Pamela.Is one of 19 actresses to have received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for a performance where they acted out a labor and/or birth; hers being for In America (2002). The others in chronological order are Luise Rainer for The Good Earth (1937), Jane Wyman for Johnny Belinda (1948), Eleanor Parker for Caged (1950), Elizabeth Taylor for Raintree County (1957), Leslie Caron for The L-Shaped Room (1962), Shirley MacLaine for Irma la Douce (1963), Vanessa Redgrave for Isadora (1968), Genevi��ve Bujold for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Marsha Mason for Cinderella Liberty (1973), Ann-Margret for Tommy (1975), Ellen Burstyn for Same Time, Next Year (1978), Jessica Lange for Sweet Dreams (1985), Meryl Streep for A Cry in the Dark (1988), Elliot Page for Juno (2007), Gabourey Sidibe for Precious (2009), Ruth Negga for Loving (2016), Yalitza Aparicio for Roma (2018) and Vanessa Kirby for Pieces of a Woman (2020).Molly Windsor who starred in her directorial debut The Unloved (2009) was attending the Central Junior Television Workshop at the time of casting and filming where Morton had also taken acting lessons as a teenager in the 1980s.As of 2018, has never appeared in a film nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. |
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My foster mother died and I did not have a relationship with my real parents. I know who they are. It's not upsetting; it's just the way it is. You cannot change things. My childhood isn't like an albatross around my neck.
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With publicity, you have to retain a level of privacy. For me, work and my life shouldn't be one and the same.
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Acting and music are self indulgent professions and they are a luxury unless you love what you do. I have a love/hate relationship with what I do. I think, 'Where's the relevance of this? I'm not a doctor, I'm not an aid worker.' But then I think you only have one life and I am a vessel for stories to be told.
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Woody Allen makes Woody Allen comedies and they are all about him. Steven Spielberg likes to tell someone else's story and it is not only about him. Fine direction such as Spielberg's is rare. You have to be very confident to direct actors. Too many directors merely know where to point the camera.
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In films, it's just that one minute you're strong, then you're told you're difficult. The minute you say, 'No, I won't take my top off' or 'No, I won't work overtime', you're bloody difficult. |
| Job title: |
Actress,Writer,Director |
| Others works: |
(2002) Appeared in U2's "Electrical Storm" music video (2002).
(2006) Appeared in "Sheena is a Parasite" music video for The Horrors, directed by Chris Cunningham (2006).
Appeared in "Ashes and Sand", a new play by Jud |
| Children: |
Theodore HolmEsme Creed-Miles |
| Parents: |
Pamela Morton
Peter Morton |
| Relatives: |
Daniel Morton (Cousin)
Beothe Marcus Morton (Sibling)
Penny Morton (Sibling) |
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