IMDb: Behind-the-Scenes Photo from ‘The Odyssey’ Set Reveals How Samantha Morton’s Terrifying Circe Scene Was Filmed
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Samantha Morton
Samantha Jane Morton is an English actress and musician. Known for her work in independent films, particularly period dramas with dark and tragic themes, she has received various accolades including a BAFTA TV Award and a Golden Globe Award, with nominations for two Academy Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Morton was honored with the BAFTA Fellowship in 2024 and was appointed Officer of the Ord…
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Born 13 May 1977 · Q230190
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2026· 9 entries
The Guardian: Post your questions for actor and musician Samantha Morton
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Public attention spiked: 44,797 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.1× the usual 6,310, with 7 article edits. Editors noted: Early life and education
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Public attention spiked: 47,182 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.5× the usual 6,310, with 6 article edits. Editors noted: Roles in television (since 2015)
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Public attention spiked: 47,633 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.5× the usual 6,310, with 7 article edits. Editors noted: Roles in television (since 2015) Small expansion.
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Public attention spiked: 78,203 Wikipedia readers in one day, 12.4× the usual 6,310, with 8 article edits. Editors noted: Bot: Removing c:File:Samantha Morton at The Odyssey worldwide premiere.jpg , deleted by Herbythyme (Copyright violation, see Commons:Commons:Licensing).
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Public attention spiked: 22,027 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.5× the usual 6,310, with 1 article edits.
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“I think my version of Samantha was very... she”
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Morton said: "I think my version of Samantha was very
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2024· 5 entries
The Guardian: ‘The hardest thing is to forgive yourself’: actor Samantha Morton and writer Jenni Fagan on the trauma of growing up in care
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Awarded BAFTA Fellowship (2024).
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The Guardian: Sam Morton: Daffodils & Dirt review – actor’s intoxicating trip-hop debut
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The Guardian: Samantha Morton and Richard Russell on their new album: ‘We’re in the business of wellbeing’
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And was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2025 for services to drama and to charity
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: On my radar: Samantha Morton’s cultural highlights
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2022· 4 entries
The Guardian: ‘I was owned by the state’: Samantha Morton on foster care, political carnage and the time Robbie Coltrane paid for her curry
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The Guardian: Post your questions for Samantha Morton
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Morton returned to the big screen in three different roles: in The Whale, she played the ex-wife of Brendan Fraser's reclusive and morbidly obese professor; in Save the Cinema, she starred as a hairdresser campaigning to
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Morton began starring as Catherine de' Medici in the Starz television series The Serpent Queen
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2017· 1 entry
Morton has starred in the Hulu period drama series Harlots
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2015· 1 entry
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 r
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2012· 1 entry
Morton showed her support for the Fostering Network's annual campaign Foster Care Fortnight, and in September 2014, triggered by the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal, she discussed in a video interview the sex
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2011· 2 entries
In 2011, Morton wrote an open letter to her stepfather, hoping they would get back in touch after being estranged for several years.
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Morton wrote an open letter to her stepfather, hoping they would get back in touch after being estranged for several years
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2009· 1 entry
Also fronted a television advertising recruitment campaign for social workers in the UK
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2008· 3 entries
Was part of the Vodafone Foundation's World of Difference campaign, which gives people the opportunity to work for a charity of their choice
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Starred in The Daisy Chain, an Irish horror film about a couple who after the death of their daughter, take in an orphaned girl, only to become involved in a series of strange occurrences
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In early 2008, Morton revealed that she had been "close to death" after suffering a debilitating stroke after being hit on the head by a piece of 17th-century plaster, damaging her vertebral artery, in 2006.
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2007· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for Longford (2007).
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2006· 1 entry
Played the Moors murderess Myra Hindley in the television film Longford
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2004· 1 entry
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, opposi
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2000· 1 entry
They broke up when Morton was 15 weeks pregnant with their daughter, actress Esmé Creed-Miles, born in February 2000.
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1999· 1 entry
Was the romantic drama Dreaming of Joseph Lees, an adaptation of a story written by Catherine Linstrum set in rural England in the late 1950s; for her part, she won the Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actres
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1996· 1 entry
Before her breakthrough role in Under the Skin (1997)
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1991· 1 entry
Attended Clarendon College of Performing Arts to gain a BTEC award but subsequently left for personal reasons
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1977· 1 entry
Born 1977-05-13.
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1815· 1 entry
About youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance
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