Samantha Morton

Samantha Morton is a British actor and director, born in Nottingham in 1977. She trained with the Central Junior Television Workshop and developed an early television career before gaining attention in Carine Adler’s Under the Skin (1997).

Her film work includes Sweet and Lowdown, Morvern Callar, In America, Minority Report and Control, moving between independent cinema and major studio productions. She made her directing debut with The Unloved (2009). Her performances in Sweet and Lowdown and In America received Academy Award nominations, and she was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship in 2024.