FrameThrower · Actors · Samantha Morton
Samantha Morton
9 films · 484 frames · top-billed in 6 · 2002–2022
Born 13 May 1977 · Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Samantha Jane Morton is an English actress. She is known for her work in independent films with dark and tragic themes, in particular period dramas. She has received numerous accolades, including the BAFTA Fellowship, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Morton was a member of the Central Junior Television Workshop in her native Nottingham and began her career in British television in 1991. She appeared in the ITV series Band of Gold (1995–1996) and the BBC miniseries The History of Tom Jones: a Foundling (1997).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 484 frames · top-billed in 6 · 2002–2022
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film2007
- BAFTA Fellowship2024
How their films are shot
Measured across 484 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Samantha takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 9 films we hold, 51% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Samantha takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 484 frames from Samantha Morton's 9 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.