Samantha Morton Net Worth

Samantha Morton's Quotes

• My foster mother died and I did not have a relationship with my real parents. I know who they are. It's not upsetting; it's just the way it is. You cannot change things. My childhood isn't like an albatross around my neck.
• With publicity, you have to retain a level of privacy. For me, work and my life shouldn't be one and the same.
• Acting and music are self indulgent professions and they are a luxury unless you love what you do. I have a love/hate relationship with what I do. I think, 'Where's the relevance of this? I'm not a doctor, I'm not an aid worker.' But then I think you only have one life and I am a vessel for stories to be told.
• Woody Allen makes Woody Allen comedies and they are all about him. Steven Spielberg likes to tell someone else's story and it is not only about him. Fine direction such as Spielberg's is rare. You have to be very confident to direct actors. Too many directors merely know where to point the camera.
• In films, it's just that one minute you're strong, then you're told you're difficult. The minute you say, 'No, I won't take my top off' or 'No, I won't work overtime', you're bloody difficult.

Interesting Facts about Samantha Morton

1. Has eight siblings.
2. Dropped out of school at 13.
3. Moved to London from Nottingham at 16.
4. Born in a Nottingham council estate.
5. Turned down the role of Lisa in Girl, Interrupted (1999) and Angelina Jolie was cast instead. At the 72nd Academy Awards in 2000 Jolie won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in which Morton was nominated in the same category for Sweet and Lowdown (1999).
6. Turned down the title role in Iris (2001) and Kate Winslet was cast instead.
7. Wanted a role in Love Actually (2003) but was turned down in favor of Martine McCutcheon and Keira Knightley.
8. Was actually the third choice to play Agatha in Minority Report (2002); Cate Blanchett, Jenna Elfman and Kate Winslet all turned it down.
9. Attended The West Bridgford Comprehensive School, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham. The school has a book containing newspaper cuttings of her achievements in the reception.
10. Was originally cast as Diane Arbus in Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) and Nicole Kidman was cast instead.
11. Turned down the role of Ophelia in Hamlet (2000) due to scheduling conflicts with Sweet and Lowdown (1999). In The Libertine (2004) she played the actress Elizabeth Barry who in the film plays a stunning Ophelia on stage.
12. Parents split up when she was three. The children stayed with their father.
13. Cousin of the actor Daniel Morton yet they have never worked together.
14. She has stated that, if she weren't an actress, she might work in social care or politics, and intends to combine her acting work with it some day.
15. She has a reputation for being difficult on set, by her own admission: in an interview given with The Guardian Weekend magazine in 2009, she stated that it was fair enough to tell crew members to shut it if they were chatting away while she was giving it her all - she works hard and expects others to do so, too.
16. In early 2008, she revealed that she had been "close to death" after suffering a debilitating stroke due to being hit by a piece of 17th-century plaster that fell on her head (damaging her vertebral artery) when filming for Transsiberian (2008) in 2006 causing partial paralysis and loss of vision and was replaced by Emily Mortimer. She was in hospital for three weeks after the incident. She withdrew from the public spotlight and took an 18-month break from film acting to spent time in physical and speech therapy, learning how to walk and remaster her speaking skills. She went straight from therapy into filming Synecdoche, New York (2008). She reports "I still have a slight dis-fluency, sentences are spaced differently, but I was given a clean bill of health.".
17. Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her daughter Edie in order to begin filming The Messenger (2009).
18. Her parents split up when she was just three and she lived with her father until she was eight when she was made a ward of court, because neither of her parents could take care of her and her siblings. Her father was an abusive alcoholic and the mother trapped in a violent relationship with her second husband.
19. Has two siblings, a brother and a sister. Beothe Marcus (born 1971) is a Royal Marine, sister Penny (born 1972) works with children with learning disabilities.
20. Parents' names are Peter and Pamela.