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\n\t\tSamantha Morton has revealed her sister has passed away at the age of 53 (Picture: Deadline via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tSamantha Morton has revealed her sister has passed away at the age of 53 (Picture: Deadline via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Samantha Morton<\/a> has revealed that her older sister has died, just 18 months after her father.<\/p>\n The Odyssey actress, <\/a>49, explained that she\u2019s still \u2018dealing with coroners and trauma\u2019 after her sibling died earlier this year.<\/p>\n Samantha is one of nine siblings and previously revealed how she spent much of her childhood in foster homes.<\/p>\n Speaking to The Sunday Times<\/a>, the award-winning actress said: \u2018My relationship with my past changes as I age and my children age, but things keep happening.<\/p>\n \u2018I sadly lost my sister on April 22 this year, she was 53.<\/p>\n \u2018I am still dealing with the coroners and the trauma. I lost my real father 18 months ago. Trauma. So the past is always with me and I\u2019m not saying I\u2019m not going to be all right next week, but every day I wake, say a prayer and say \u201cPlease help me\u201d.\u2019<\/p>\n \t\t Discussing her difficult upbringing, she said: \u2018The past never leaves you.<\/p>\n \u2018It\u2019s in your DNA, and trauma is a constant battle.\u2019<\/p>\n Samantha was born to factory worker Pamela and coal miner Peter. Her mother experienced mental health<\/a> complications, and her father was an alcoholic.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2018Someone told me I was resilient when I was younger. But sometimes you\u2019ve got no choice other than to be resilient because if you are not you\u2019re dead,\u2019 she recalled.<\/p>\n \u2018I went pillar to post with foster families, homeless hostels, sleeping by the bins at the back of the Co-op, because it was too dangerous to go back to the children\u2019s home because of the abuse.\u2019<\/p>\n She added: \u2018I have made choices that have always been about survival, because I watched my mum trying to survive and I watched my dad trying to survive.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n She added that her earlier years helped in her portrayal of Circe<\/a> in\u00a0Christopher Nolan<\/a>\u2019s epic The Odyssey.<\/p>\n \t\t \u2018These weren\u2019t just words. I believe them as Sam, not just Circe,\u2019 she explained.<\/p>\n \u2018And when I opened my mouth, I was every woman. I was speaking for my mother, who suffered all sorts at the hands of men. And my sister, friends, grandmother. It was all the wrongs and ways that women have been depicted or treated forever.\u2019<\/p>\n Samantha, who is a mother to three children, Esm\u00e9 Creed-Miles with actor Charlie Creed-Miles, and her younger children Edie and Theodore with filmmaker Harry Holm, previously revealed how she was \u2018saved\u2019 by acting.<\/p>\n In an emotional acceptance speech in 2024 she dedicated her Bafta Fellowship \u2018to every child in care, or who has been in care and who didn\u2019t survive\u2019.<\/p>\n Arrow![\"Samantha](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SEI_304275238-96d3.jpg\")
\n\t\tThe Odyssey actress, 49, is one of nine siblings (Picture: AP Photo\/Scott A Garfitt)<\/p>\n![\"Mandatory](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SEI_304278711-2d05.jpg\")
\n\t\tMorton has been in a relationship with film-maker Harry Holm for over two decades (Picture: Anthony Harvey\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n
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