Samantha MortonFilmography

Born:: May 13, 1977 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: With only a handful of film credits to her name, British actress Samantha Morton earned a reputation as one of the most critically lauded up-and-comers of the late '90s. Small-boned and possessed of almost elfin features, Morton, who was born in Nottingham in 1977, began acting on television at...Read More

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John Carter of Mars

Actors: Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe, Samantha Morton, Dominic West, Polly Walker

Synopsis: WALL-E's Andrew Stanton steps out from the world of animation into live-action with this adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs character. Taylor Kitsch stars as John Carter, a Civil War soldier who finds himself magically teleported to the planet Mars, with fellow Wolverine star Lynn Collins Read More

1/1/12
The Messenger

Actors: Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone, Steve Buscemi, Eamonn Walker

Synopsis: An Iraq War veteran who just narrowly escaped death in combat struggles with his new post at the Casualty Notification Office while anticipating his upcoming discharge in this military drama starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Jena Malone, and Samantha Morton. Will Montgomery (Foster) has spent Read More

11/13/09
The Unloved

Crew: Director

Actors: Molly Windsor, Robert Carlyle, Susan Lynch

2009
Synecdoche, New York

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson

Synopsis: Synecdoche, New York marked the directorial debut of iconoclastic, cerebral screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as Caden Cotard, an eccentric playwright who lives with artist Adele Lack (Catherine Keener) and their daughter Olive in Schenectady, upstate New York. Prone to Read More

10/24/08
Expired

Actors: Samantha Morton, Jason Patric, Teri Garr, Illeana Douglas, Joe Camareno

Synopsis: A sheltered meter maid and her disturbed fellow parking enforcer discover that love can bloom even while working in a job that most folks despise in this unflinching look at modern love starring Samantha Morton and Jason Patric. Hypersensitive Claire (Morton) spends her days doling out parking Read More

6/20/08
Mister Lonely

Actors: Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant, James Fox, Melita Morgan

Synopsis: When a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in Paris falls for a Marilyn Monroe impersonator (Samantha Morton) during a performance at a retirement home, the lovestruck pair retreats to a seaside castle in the Scottish highlands populated by a commune of reclusive impersonators. Read More

3/14/08
Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen, Rhys Ifans, Jordi Mollà

Synopsis: Actress Cate Blanchett returns to her Oscar-nominated role and director Shekhar Kapur steps back into the director's chair for this belated sequel to the critically acclaimed 1998 biopic Elizabeth that explores the 16th century romance between the "Virgin Queen" and noted adventurer Sir Walter Read More

10/12/07
Control

Actors: Samantha Morton, Sam Riley, Alexandra Maria Lara, Joe Anderson, Toby Kebbell

Synopsis: Prolific music-video helmer and award-winning photographer Anton Corbijn makes his feature directorial debut with this biographical drama concerning the late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. Based on the book Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division by the enigmatic singer's wife Deborah Curtis Read More

10/10/07
Longford

Actors: Jim Broadbent, Samantha Morton, Lindsay Duncan, Andy Serkis, Robert Pugh

Synopsis: Academy-award-winning actor Jim Broadbent portrays controversial British campaigner Lord Longford in this biopic that details the former government minister and then-House of Lords leader's notorious encounter with infamous Moors Murderer Myra Hindley (Samantha Morton). A lifelong Christian who Read More

2007
Puffball

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Kelly Reilly, Miranda Richardson, Samantha Morton, Rita Tushingham, William Houston

Synopsis: Don't Look Now director Nicholas Roeg steps back behind the camera for the first time in fifteen years to weave this macabre tale of a young architect who finds her unborn child in danger after moving deep into the Irish countryside. Liffrey (Kelly Reilly) has had enough of the big city, and now Read More

2007
Free Jimmy

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Jan Saelid, Anders T. Andersen, Simon Pegg, Egil Birkeland, Phil Daniels, Terje Rangnes, Jay Simpson, Kristopher Schau, Kyle MacLachlan

Synopsis: A drug-addled elephant is on the run from people who either want to help him or kill him in this dark computer-animated comedy that is decidedly not for children. Jimmy is a performing elephant who travels with a third-rate Russian circus run by ringmaster Stromowski (voice of Jim Broadbent). Read More

2006
Lassie

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton, John Lynch, Peter Dinklage, Steve Pemberton

Synopsis: Everyone's favorite collie returns to the screen -- and to her native home back in Britain -- in director Charles Sturridge's faithful adaptation of author Eric Knight's sentimental kid and canine novel Lassie Come Home. When Lassie saves a fox from the hunting hounds of the duke of Rudling (Peter O'Toole Read More

12/16/05
The Libertine

Actors: Johnny Depp, John Malkovich, Samantha Morton, Rosamund Pike, Tom Hollander

Synopsis: A man who lives for pleasure finds his hedonism betrays him in time in this film adaptation of the play by Stephen Jeffreys. The second Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot (Johnny Depp), was a notorious figure in 17th century Europe; well-respected as a poet and author, Wilmot also earned no small Read More

11/25/05
River Queen

Actors: Samantha Morton, Anton Lesser

Synopsis: A woman who has come to a strange land is torn between the life she knows and the new life around her in this epic-scale historical drama. In 1854, New Zealand's indigenous Maori tribes were engaged in an ongoing battle to drive away European settlers eager to establish colonies in the nation's Read More

2005
Enduring Love

Actors: Rhys Ifans, Samantha Morton, Daniel Craig, Bill Nighy, Susan Lynch

Synopsis: Enduring Love is director Roger Michell and screenwriter Joe Penhall's adaptation of Ian McEwan's acclaimed novel. Joe (Daniel Craig, who starred in Michell's previous film, The Mother), a college professor, is out on a romantic picnic with his long-time girlfriend, Claire (Samantha Morton), a Read More

10/29/04
Code 46

Actors: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Jeanne Balibar, Om Puri, Essie Davis

Synopsis: In the not-so-distant future, a married man investigates a counterfeiter and ends up the perpetrator of an ethical crime in Code 46, the latest film from prolific British director Michael Winterbottom. Set against the backdrop of a technologically advanced Shanghai, where people are only allowed Read More

8/6/04
In America

Actors: Samantha Morton, Paddy Considine, Sarah Bolger, Emma Bolger, Djimon Hounsou

Synopsis: After chronicling various chapters of Irish history in such films as In the Name of the Father and The Field, writer/director Jim Sheridan turns his lens upon his own family's experiences immigrating to the United States in the aptly titled In America. The loosely autobiographical script centers Read More

11/26/03
Morvern Callar

Actors: Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott

Synopsis: A woman's life is set onto a new path by tragedy and confusion in this offbeat drama from maverick director Lynne Ramsay. Morvern Callar (Samantha Morton) is a woman in her early twenties who wakes up in her flat in a small Scottish town on Christmas morning to a rather unpleasant surprise -- her Read More

12/20/02
Minority Report

Actors: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow, Lois Smith

Synopsis: Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, this science fiction-thriller reflects the writer's familiar preoccupation with themes of concealed identity and mind control. Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton, a Washington, D.C. detective in the year 2054. Anderton works for "Precrime," a Read More

6/21/02
Max & Ruby [Animated TV Series]

Actors: Billy Rosenberg, Samantha Morton, Rebecca Peters, Julie Lemieux

Synopsis: This animated series for preschoolers was based on the children's books by Rosemary Wells, which had been bestsellers since 1979. The title characters were a brace of youthful bunny rabbits: adventurous toddler Max and his bossy but lovable seven-year-old sister Ruby. Although the two siblings Read More

2002
Pandaemonium

Actors: Linus Roache, John Hannah, Samantha Morton, Emily Woof, Emma Fielding

Synopsis: The troubled friendship and occasional rivalry between two of England's greatest poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, is explored in an unorthodox light in this historical drama from renegade director Julian Temple. As Coleridge (Linus Roache), Wordsworth (John Hannah), and Lord Read More

6/29/01
Eden

Actors: Samantha Morton, Thomas Jane, Luke Holland, Daphna Kastner, Danny Huston

Synopsis: Following up on his masterful, heart-wrenching war-drama Kippur, veteran Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï directs his first English language work based on a novel by Arthur Miller. Set in 1939, the film centers on Kalman, a young ambitious Jewish businessman who leaves his aged father in Europe to be Read More

2001
Jesus' Son

Actors: Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton, Denis Leary, Jack Black, Will Patton

Synopsis: In this independent drama, a young man tries to find himself in the early 1970s as he wades through a swamp of heroin addiction. FH (Billy Crudup) is a well-intentioned but weak-willed man whose propensity for messing up his life has earned him his nickname, short for "F--khead." FH's problems Read More

6/16/00
Sweet and Lowdown

Actors: Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Uma Thurman, Brian Markinson, Anthony LaPaglia, Woody Allen

Synopsis: Woody Allen immerses himself in the world of vintage jazz in this period mock-biography of a musician gifted in his art but a sad student in life. Emmet Ray (Sean Penn) is a 1930s jazz guitarist considered one of the finest musicians ever to touch a fretboard, second only to the legendary Django Read More

12/3/99
Dreaming of Joseph Lees

Actors: Samantha Morton, Lee Ross, Rupert Graves, Holly Aird, Miriam Margolyes

Synopsis: This drama takes place in Somerset, England in 1958. Eva is a twenty-year-old woman who fantasizes about travel, painting, classic books, and the attention of Joseph Lees, her second cousin, with whom she fell in love as a girl. Joseph, whom she has not seen for four years, is the only member of Read More

10/29/99
Under the Skin

Actors: Samantha Morton, Claire Rushbrook, Rita Tushingham, Mark Womack, Matthew Delamere

Synopsis: Samantha Morton, who soon after this film gained attention for her role in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, makes an impressive feature debut in first time writer-director Carine Adler's bittersweet saga about a troubled woman's uneven progress toward self-realization. Morton plays Iris, a woman Read More

6/5/98
The Last Yellow

Actors: Mark Addy, Charlie Creed-Miles, Samantha Morton, Kenneth Cranham, James Hooton

Synopsis: A loser looking for work is asked to become a hired killer in this dark comedy. Frank (Mark Addy)'s life is going nowhere when his mother throws him out of the house. Frank ends up sharing a house with his friend Kenny (Charlie Creed-Miles), who lives with his alcoholic grandfather and disabled Read More

1998
Tom Jones

Actors: Max Beesley, Samantha Morton

Synopsis: In this TV miniseries based on the 1749 Henry Fielding novel, kindly Squire Allworthy (Benjamin Whitrow) adopts an infant boy left at his home after unmarried Jenny Jones (Camille Coduri) is paid by the real mother to admit that the child is hers. Having lost his own children in infancy, then his Read More

1997
This Is The Sea

Actors: Samantha Morton, Ross McDade, Richard Harris, Gabriel Byrne, John Lynch

Synopsis: Mary McGuckian wrote and directed this "Romeo and Juliet"-style story set in Northern Ireland after the 1994 cease fire. Young Hazel Stokes (Samantha Morton) is very much a part of her family's austere, rural Protestant way of life, and her family, despite the cease-fire, feels betrayed by the Read More

1997
Jane Eyre

Actors: Samantha Morton, Ciarán Hinds, Gemma Jones, Richard Hawley

Synopsis: This made-for-TV feature was the tenth screen adaptation of the classic Gothic romance by Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre (Samantha Morton, who two years later would earn an Oscar nomination for her performance in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown) grew up an orphan under trying circumstances, but Read More

1997
Emma

Actors: Olivia Williams, Raymond Coulthard, Kate Beckinsale, Mark Strong, Samantha Morton

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel, Emma Woodhouse (Kate Beckinsale) is a clever young woman from a wealthy family who fancies herself a matchmaker and tries to find a husband for her shy friend Harriet (Samantha Morton). However, Emma's skills in bringing romances Read More

1996
Band of Gold [TV Series]

Actors: Cathy Tyson, Geraldine James, Barbara Dickson, Ruth Gemmell, Samantha Morton

1995