I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.

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.