I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.

After a string of roles in low-budget[citation needed] films and television Samantha Morton landed the role of Hattie in 1999's Sweet and Lowdown for which Samantha Morton received attention from Hollywood critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She got a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for In America in 2004. Their second child was born in 2012.

Morton subsequently starred in 2002's Minority Report and Morvern Callar. After a string of roles in low-budget[citation needed] films and television Samantha Morton landed the role of Hattie in 1999's Sweet and Lowdown for which Samantha Morton received attention from Hollywood critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She received her second Academy Award nomination for her performance as the young Irish mother Sarah coping with life in New York City in 2003's In America.