Samantha Morton

ABOUT SAMANTHA MORTON

British actress who starred with Tom Cruise in Minority Report . She later appeared in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and became a series regular on Harlots . In 2022, she played Mary in The Whale .

She grew up in a foster care program and served 18 weeks in a juvenile detention center for threatening to kill somebody.

She received numerous award nominations for her roles in Jesus' Son and Sweet and Lowdown. She has amassed over 60 different acting roles throughout her ongoing career.

She had a daughter named Esme with her boyfriend Charlie Creed-Miles in 2000. She began dating Harry Holm in 2005 and they had a daughter named Edie in 2008 and another child in 2012. The couple later got married.

One of her best known roles was in In America, which also starred Djimon Hounsou .