Samantha Morton

Samantha Morton

Born: May 13, 1977
in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Samantha Jane Morton (born May 13, 1977) is an English actress and director. Known for her work in independent cinema, she is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as 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). Morton's early film roles include Emma (1996), Jane Eyre (1997), and Under the Skin (1997). She received two Academy Award nominations, one for Best Supporting Actress for Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown (1999), and the other for Best Actress for Jim Sheridan's In America (2003). Other notable film credits include Morvern Callar (2002), Minority Report (2002), The Libertine (2004), Control (2007), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Synecdoche, New York (2008), The Messenger (2009), John Carter (2012), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), and The Whale (2022).

For her portrayal of Myra Hindley in the HBO film Longford (2006) she received Primetime Emmy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe Award nominations. Morton made her directorial debut with the television film The Unloved (2009), which won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Single Drama. She has starred in various programs, such as The Last Panthers (2015), Rillington Place (2016), Harlots (2017–2019), The Walking Dead (2019–2020), and The Serpent Queen (2022–present).

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Title: The Burning Girls
Character: Reverend Jack Brooks
Released: October 19, 2023
Type: TV
Follows Reverend Jack Brooks and her daughter in Chapel Croft, a place for a fresh start that soon reveals its community's dark history and where ancient superstitions and mistrust of outsiders are quite common.
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The Whale
Title: The Whale
Character: Mary
Released: December 9, 2022
Type: Movie
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
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She Said
Title: She Said
Character: Zelda Perkins
Released: November 17, 2022
Type: Movie
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
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Title: The Serpent Queen
Character: Catherine de' Medici
Released: September 11, 2022
Type: TV
Considered an immigrant, common and plain, Catherine de Medici is married into the 16th century French court as an orphaned teenager expected to bring a fortune in dowry and produce many heirs, only to discover that her husband is in love with an older woman, her dowry is unpaid and she’s unable to concieve. Yet, only with her intelligence and determination, she manages to keep her marriage alive and masters the bloodsport that is the monarchy better than anyone else, ruling France for 50 years.
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Title: Tales of the Walking Dead
Character: Dee
Released: August 14, 2022
Type: TV
An episodic anthology series focused on both new and established characters set in the world of "The Walking Dead."
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Save the Cinema
Title: Save the Cinema
Character: Liz Evans
Released: January 14, 2022
Type: Movie
The true story of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and leader of a youth theatre in Carmarthen, Wales, who began a campaign in 1993 to save the Lyric theatre from closure. Alongside then Mayor of Carmarthen Richard Goodridge, they enlisted the help of Steven Spielberg, securing a special premiere of Jurassic Park.
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Title: I Am...
Character: Kirsty
Released: July 23, 2019
Type: TV
Each hour-long film follows a different woman as they experience “moments that are emotionally raw, thought-provoking and utterly personal”.
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Two for Joy
Title: Two for Joy
Character: Aisha
Released: September 28, 2018
Type: Movie
A troubled family's problems come to a head during a stay in a seaside town.
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Title: Harlots
Character: Margaret Wells
Released: March 27, 2017
Type: TV
Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.
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Title: Rillington Place
Character: Ethel Christie
Released: November 29, 2016
Type: TV
A three-part drama about serial killer John Christie and the murders at 10 Rillington Place in the 1940s and early 1950s.
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Title: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Character: Mary Lou Barebone
Released: November 16, 2016
Type: Movie
In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.
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Title: Artists in Love
Character: Host
Released: March 8, 2016
Type: TV
A Sky Arts Production Hub docu-series that gives an insight into the relationships between writers, musicians, directors, painters and their muses, from Federico Fellini and Giulietta Masina to Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe.
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Title: The Last Panthers
Character: Naomi
Released: November 12, 2015
Type: TV
The six-part series opens with a daring diamond heist before quickly delving into the dark heart of Europe where a shadowy alliance of gangsters and 'banksters' now rules. Naomi is the British loss adjustor charged with recovering the stolen diamonds whatever the cost. Also in pursuit is French-Algerian policeman Khalil.
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Cider with Rosie
Title: Cider with Rosie
Character: Annie Lee
Released: September 27, 2015
Type: Movie
A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
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The Harvest
Title: The Harvest
Character: Katherine
Released: April 10, 2015
Type: Movie
Maryann moves in with her grandparents after she's orphaned. Desperately lonely, she sets out to befriend a neighboring deathly ill, bed-ridden boy, despite the outright disapproval of his mother. Maryann's persistence pays off, however, and during a series of secret visits she gradually uncovers some seriously sinister goings-on in the house.
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Miss Julie
Title: Miss Julie
Character: Kathleen
Released: September 7, 2014
Type: Movie
Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her.
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Decoding Annie Parker
Title: Decoding Annie Parker
Character: Annie Parker
Released: May 2, 2014
Type: Movie
The lives of a breast-cancer patient and a researcher who is trying to prove a genetic link to cancer intersect in a groundbreaking study.
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Angels & Ghosts
Title: Angels & Ghosts
Character: Amber Crick (voice)
Released: December 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, Angels and Ghosts tells the emotive journey of Amber, a young girl who is on a quest to find her brothers who have disappeared. It's a gripping animated adventure exploring the potent themes of mental health and family bonds. The story, told as a monologue from Amber's perspective, is narrated by Oscar nominated actress Samantha Morton.
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Title: The Frame
Character: Vija Kinsky
Released: April 9, 2013
Type: TV
A journey through the world of classic and contemporary cinema.
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Title: The Frame
Character: Maria Gonzales
Released: April 9, 2013
Type: TV
A journey through the world of classic and contemporary cinema.
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Citizens of Cosmopolis
Title: Citizens of Cosmopolis
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 2012
Type: Movie
An in-depth documentary about the making of David Cronenberg's feature film, Cosmopolis (2012), an adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel of the same name.
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Cosmopolis
Title: Cosmopolis
Character: Vija Kinsky
Released: May 25, 2012
Type: Movie
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo during a riot in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's life begins to crumble.
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John Carter
Title: John Carter
Character: Sola
Released: March 7, 2012
Type: Movie
John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
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Title: The Walking Dead
Character: Alpha
Released: October 31, 2010
Type: TV
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
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Miliband of Brothers
Title: Miliband of Brothers
Character: Self - Narrator
Released: September 24, 2010
Type: Movie
Charting the rise of the Milliband brother, from their left-wing upbringing to their University days, using dramatized scenes and interviews with people who knew them.
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The Messenger
Title: The Messenger
Character: Olivia Pitterson
Released: November 13, 2009
Type: Movie
Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone, to give notice to the families of fallen soldiers. The Sergeant is drawn to Olivia Pitterson, to whom he has delivered news of her husband’s death.
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The Daisy Chain
Title: The Daisy Chain
Character: Martha Conroy
Released: November 9, 2008
Type: Movie
A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to become involved in a series of strange occurrences.
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Synecdoche, New York
Title: Synecdoche, New York
Character: Hazel
Released: October 24, 2008
Type: Movie
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
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Mister Lonely
Title: Mister Lonely
Character: Marilyn Monroe
Released: February 2, 2008
Type: Movie
In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.
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Control
Title: Control
Character: Debbie Curtis
Released: September 12, 2007
Type: Movie
The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Title: Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Character: Mary, Queen of Scots
Released: September 9, 2007
Type: Movie
When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, she and her shrewd adviser must act to safeguard the lives of her people.
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Title: Would I Lie to You?
Character: Self
Released: June 16, 2007
Type: TV
A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrageous lies during a series of different rounds including "Home Truths", "This Is My..." and "Quickfire Lies". It is up to the opposing team to tell tall tales from fantastic facts.
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Title: The Graham Norton Show
Character: Self
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: TV
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
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Expired
Title: Expired
Character: Claire Barney
Released: January 19, 2007
Type: Movie
The film revolves around Claire, a kind soul who resents having to enforce the law at all times, and Jay, an angry Traffic Officer who loves his job, being the perfect outlet for his anger and frustrations. Coming both from a place of despair and loneliness, Jay and Claire meet and engage in a tumultuous relationship which will eventually teach them that love can spread redemption.
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Max & Ruby - A Merry Bunny Christmas
Title: Max & Ruby - A Merry Bunny Christmas
Character: Ruby
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
A Nick Jr. animated preschool series based on the hugely popular storybooks by Rosemary Wells. Max & Ruby celebrates the warm & humorous relationship between Max, an enthusiastic and determined bunny, and his big sister Ruby. The TV series has a distinct look & feel, incorporating 2D characters into a 3D world. Books first launched 1979 & more than a million books have been sold to date.
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Longford
Title: Longford
Character: Myra Hindley
Released: October 26, 2006
Type: Movie
A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.
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Free Jimmy
Title: Free Jimmy
Character: Sonia (voice)
Released: April 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant.
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Lassie
Title: Lassie
Character: Sarah Carraclough
Released: December 16, 2005
Type: Movie
A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
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River Queen
Title: River Queen
Character: Sarah O'Brien
Released: September 12, 2005
Type: Movie
An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.
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Enduring Love
Title: Enduring Love
Character: Claire
Released: October 29, 2004
Type: Movie
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously in trouble. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. Joe and three other men rush to secure the basket. But fate has other ideas...
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The Libertine
Title: The Libertine
Character: Elizabeth Barry
Released: September 16, 2004
Type: Movie
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
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Max & Ruby's Christmas
Title: Max & Ruby's Christmas
Character: Ruby (voice)
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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In America
Title: In America
Character: Sarah
Released: October 31, 2003
Type: Movie
A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
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Code 46
Title: Code 46
Character: Maria Gonzales
Released: September 2, 2003
Type: Movie
In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria Gonzalez, the woman in charge of the forgeries. After a passionate affair, Gold returns home, having named a coworker as the culprit. But when one of Gonzalez's customers is found dead, Gold is sent back to Shanghai to complete the investigation.
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Morvern Callar
Title: Morvern Callar
Character: Morvern Callar
Released: November 1, 2002
Type: Movie
After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.
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Minority Report
Title: Minority Report
Character: Agatha [Pre-Cog Chamber]
Released: June 20, 2002
Type: Movie
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
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Title: V Graham Norton
Character: Self
Released: May 6, 2002
Type: TV
V Graham Norton was an entertainment programme shown on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom starring Graham Norton, broadcast every weeknight as a successor to the weekly So Graham Norton. It aired from 6 May 2002 to 26 December 2003. It featured celebrities who chatted with Graham and became involved in studio games which were usually laden with sexual innuendo. The studio games were later featured on the clip show Nortonland in 2007 on digital channel Challenge. The show featured a 'webcam', a roving television camera which was randomly situated in a different place in the UK each week and which followed Graham's instructions and allowed him to interact with the public live. The feature was made technically possible using digital microwave link technology provided by Rear Window Television with the 'spontaneous' webcam feature always produced as a full quality Outside Broadcast, before being made to look like a traditional webcam at the studios.
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Title: 토끼네 집으로 오세요
Released: May 3, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: Max and Ruby
Character: Ruby
Released: May 3, 2002
Type: TV
Meet two funny bunny siblings, the energetic and mischievous Max, and the patient, smart and goal-oriented Ruby. The show models empowering messages by showing Max and Ruby playing together and resolving their differences respectfully and supportively.
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Eden
Title: Eden
Character: Sam
Released: August 29, 2001
Type: Movie
In 1939, Kalman, an ambitious young businessman, leaves Europe to join his sister Samantha in Palestine. She lives with Dov, an idealistic architect obsessed with the Bauhaus style. With their friends, they form a group, which discusses the future Israeli State.
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Pandaemonium
Title: Pandaemonium
Character: Sara Coleridge
Released: June 29, 2001
Type: Movie
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate English poetry in the spirt of liberty and democracy. As time goes by, cracks begin to appear in the relationship. Sam becomes addicted to opium, while William's ego and ambition distance him further from his friend.
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Jesus' Son
Title: Jesus' Son
Character: Michelle
Released: June 16, 2000
Type: Movie
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
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Sweet and Lowdown
Title: Sweet and Lowdown
Character: Hattie
Released: December 3, 1999
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
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Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Title: Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Character: Eva
Released: October 29, 1999
Type: Movie
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone else's fantasy, Harry (Lee Ross). When Harry learns that Eva is planning to leave the village in order to live with and look after the injured Lees, he devises a gruesome scheme in order to force her to stay and look after him.
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The Last Yellow
Title: The Last Yellow
Character: Jackie
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Two losers try to lift themselves out of the mire by letting their fantasy world take over their lives.
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Under the Skin
Title: Under the Skin
Character: Iris Kelly
Released: November 28, 1997
Type: Movie
Although married and pregnant Rose has always been mother's favorite, it is younger sister Iris whose life is shaken up by mother's death. Suffocating, Iris spirals out of control and copes by losing herself in sexual oblivion.
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Title: The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
Character: Sophie Western
Released: November 9, 1997
Type: TV
Adaptation of the classic novel by Henry Fielding chronicling the life, loves and adventures of the charming Tom.
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This Is the Sea
Title: This Is the Sea
Character: Hazel Stokes
Released: September 15, 1997
Type: Movie
The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan (leader in militant underground and pal of Malachy's brother Padhar), who wants Malachy to be recruited and fight for the cause and by Hazel's brother Jef, who spies on her meetings.
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Title: The View
Character: Self
Released: August 11, 1997
Type: TV
ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Meghan McCain, and Abby Huntsman, discussing the most exciting events of the day. Hot topics in the news, the best experts in their field, celebrity interviews and general entertainment are all part of The View.
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Jane Eyre
Title: Jane Eyre
Character: Jane Eyre
Released: March 9, 1997
Type: Movie
Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is filmed yet again. The story of the Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor is given a standard romantic flare, but sparks do not seem to happen between the two leads in this version.
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Emma
Title: Emma
Character: Harriet Smith
Released: October 2, 1996
Type: Movie
Emma Woodhouse has a rigid sense of propriety as regards matrimonial alliances. Unfortunately she insists on matchmaking for her less forceful friend, Harriet, and so causes her to come to grief. Through the sharp words of Mr. Knightley, and the example of the opinionated Mrs. Elton, someone not unlike herself, Emma's attitudes begin to soften.
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The Future Lasts A Long Time
Title: The Future Lasts A Long Time
Character: May
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Dream-like short film starring Samantha Morton, in one of her earliest screen credits, as one of a couple on the run who hide out in the Fens.
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Band of Gold
Title: Band of Gold
Character: Tracy Richards
Released: March 12, 1995
Type: Movie
A mother leads a life of prostitution after separating from her abusive boyfriend in order to support her family.
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Title: Band of Gold
Character: Tracy Richards
Released: March 12, 1995
Type: TV
Band of Gold is a British drama series written by Kay Mellor and produced by Granada Television. It was originally shown on ITV between 1995 and 1997. Starring Geraldine James, Cathy Tyson, Barbara Dickson and Samantha Morton, the series revolves around the lives of a group of women who live and work in Bradford's red-light district. Three seasons of Band of Gold were produced (the third under the moniker of Gold, with only a small number of characters from the first two series).
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Title: Cracker
Character: Joanne Barnes
Released: September 27, 1993
Type: TV
The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.
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Title: Peak Practice
Character: Abbey / Pauline Jones
Released: May 10, 1993
Type: TV
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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Magik
Title: Magik
Character: Lucia
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Lewis Clark is a brilliant author who stumbles upon a world of Magic after the disappearance of his two young children. He begins a quest to try to stop the insidious evil that threatens to destroy both his new world and his old one.
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Title: Dead Talk Live
Character: Self - Guest
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Film/TV Entertainment TV Talk Show Featuring Celebrity Guest Interviews.
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Title: Burning Girls
Character: Reverend Jack Brooks
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Reverend Jack Brooks is a single parent haunted by a tragedy from her previous church and who bears the onus of her husband’s death. She and her daughter Flo arrive in Chapel Croft in the hope of a fresh start, however, they soon find the village rife with conspiracies and secrets.