Can someone join me in appreciating this severely under appreciated actress? She's been nominated for two Oscars, but no one seems to know who the hell she is. I love her because of:

In America
Morvern Callar
Code 46

the U2 video for "Electrical Storm"

She's become my actress to look for when choosing a movie to watch.

Plus, I believe she's to be a crucial figure in the new Joy Division movie.

Go on, heap some praise.

yeh shes great, shes been in a lot of films i seem to come upon

I'm convinced Morvern Callar has changed my subconscious dramatically.

But, honestly, as long as you appreciate her, who gives a flying fuck if she's famous or not?

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the first thing she ever did was something called band of gold. it was a uk tv drama about prostitutes and their lives together. it was excellent.

i was only about 13-14 when it was on and can still remember it now (i'm 27 now).

I thought Morvern Collar was the most pretensious piece of shit film I've ever seen in my life... I like Samantha Morton, but that movie was horrible. There is no reason whatsoever to care about her character and the shots throughout the whole thing was the result of some hipster filmmaker desperate to get attention.

And I just want to say that the only reason the film got some good reviews (all by men might I add) is because there's a scene with two naked chicks in a tub together.

Very good in In America, must see more of her.

she was great in dreaming of joseph lees. her acting with her eyes is just so expressive. oh and in america is also beautiful, very inspiring.

Love her...she's so believable in every role I've seen her in. Same with Emily Watson, and I get them confused sometimes.

I'm a huge fan of the book by Alan Warner, it's one of my favorite novels of all time. The brilliance of the book is that Morvern is just so detached from everything. What would happen if someone just did the opposite of what was expected at every turn? In spite of doing that, though, it doesn't make her happy. That's what I love about it. The book is beautiful and I was worried that the movie would pander to the more obvious sexual scenes of the book. That it would end up as a party movie, but I thought it was very subtle. All this to say that I liked it.

To each there own, though.

she's brilliant. Her and Emily Watson are both underappreciated screen gems. People would rather honor the Nicole Kidmans and Gwyneth Paltrows.

wow,
i didn't know this had been made into a film, i LOVE the book, I must go track down the dvd

i loved band of gold, although i was probably too young to be watching it (i would have been about 10 if you're right about how old you were)

i remember that they very suddenly took it off the air saying 'band of gold will be back in the autumn'. my brother and i (he was also a big fan) waited anxiously but it never came back on

i think her best performance is in sweet and lowdown though

I agree.

Well, to be fair, both Samantha and Emily have received Oscar nominations...but for the most part they make British/European movies while Nicole and Gwyneth mostly stick to the Hollywood thing. Nicole and Gwyneth lead the Hollywood event-attending/celeb-dating life so they get more attention from media and awards organizations, unfortunately. But I do think they're fine actresses in their own right. Samantha and Emily just do smaller films.

She seems to become somewhat of a diva of late, but i ADORED her in Band of Gold. that little blonde wig, and those vacant, little girl eyes......

that series was so good, i may even try and track it down....

OMG I love Samantha Morton. She's absolutely incredible in every role I've seen her in. I want to see the Libertine, not because of Johnny Depp, but because she's in it.

Sweet & Low Down
Morvern Callar
Code 46
Pandaemonium (a British film about Coleridge)
even that Tom Cruise film was palatable because of Morton's presence in it.

morvern callar is unadulterated brilliance. lynne ramsay is supremely talented director and anything but a 'hipster filmmaker desperate to get attention". go watch ratcatcher and get back to me. go look up the correct spelling of the word "pretensious" (and maybe the correct definition as well) and then get back to me.
lynne ramsey is pure integrity.
not many hipster filmmakers desperate to get attention have their first feature and 3 shorts released as a criterion collection DVD.
i don't necessarily think that that makes anyone wrong for not liking the movie, but flippantly dismissing her like that without knowing her work is straight-up lame. the movie gets on people's nerves becuz it's unnerving and doesn't offer any moral conclusions to anything. it takes an purely observational standpoint and doesn't give any 1-2-3 answers as to the character's motivations or desires. samantha morton's performance is inverdibly subtle and people can't take it and label it and think it's purposefully difficult and i don't see it that way. and this isn't the opinion of a straight man getting off on "two naked chicks in a bathtub. everyone i know is in awe of that movie, especially my "hipster-filmmaker friends", all gay men or straight women.
why someone who advertises themselves as "artsy-fartsy-dumbass and a bit pretensious" has a problem with a film they label as being "pretensious" is beyond me.
now i am totally (and deservedly) gonna get shit from you but whatevs.

-a