Samantha Morton

Dynamic actress Samantha Morton so convincingly played American, Irish, Scottish and even mute, that fans of her international independent films may not have even known that she hailed from Northern England. An active player in British television dramas and classic literary screen adaptations since she was a teenager, most U.S. audiences first caught the actress in Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown" (1999), playing a mute to silent perfection, …