Multi-award-winning British actress SAMANTHA MORTON first garnered international attention in 1997 starring in Carine Adler’s Under the Skin, earning her the Boston Film Critics Award for Best Actress.

She has since gone on to work with such acclaimed directors as Woody Allen
(Sweet and Lowdown,1999), Lynne Ramsay (Morvern Callar,2002), Stephen Spielberg (Minority Report, 2002), Jim Sheridan (In America, 2002), Michael Winterbottom (Code 46, 2003), Shekhar Kapur (The Golden Age, 2007),Harmony Korine (Mister Lonely, 2007), Anton Corbijn (Control, 2007), Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche, New York, 2008), David Cronenberg (Cosmopolis 2012), Andrew Stanton (John Carter, 2012), Spike Jonze (Her, 2013) and David Yates (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,2016). In a highly decorated career Morton has twice been nominated for an Academy Award®, twice nominated for a BAFTA award and in 2007 she received a Best Actress Golden Globe® for her portrayal of notorious child-murderer Myra Hindley in the NBC/Channel 4 film
Longford.

In 2009, Morton made her directorial debut with The Unloved, a semi autobiographical film based in the British children’s care system, winning the BAFTA Television Award for Best Single Drama.

Most recently Morton can be seen in the Dominic Savage drama I Am Kirsty, all three seasons of the hit Hulu tv show Harlots and AMC’s award winning “The Walking Dead”, where she plays the newest villain, Alpha.