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Feisty and forthright Samantha Morton is one of Britain's finest young actresses. Twice Oscar-nominated for her turns as Sean Penn's mute, mistreated lover in Woody Allen's Sweet And Lowdown (1999) and the grieving mother of Jim Sheridan's In America (2004), Morton's evocation of wordless emotion is virtually unsurpassed amongst her contemporaries. From a Nottingham council estate to a succession of care homes after her parents separated, Morton made her way to London at 16, found an agent and started to get noticed playing troubled teens in television dramas such as Cracker, Boon and Band Of Gold. Under The Skin (1997) was her first film role, leading to international acclaim and work with Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg (as a tormented psychic) in Minority Report (2002).
