Samantha Morton

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 a...
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05/12/1977
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
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