Samantha Morton
Samantha Morton (born May 13, 1977, Nottingham, United Kingdom), aged 49, is a British actress. Notable films include The Walking Dead, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and The Odyssey. Morton's honours include BAFTA Fellowship and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.
Samantha Morton’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Fire Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Samantha
Samantha Morton’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Samantha in the U.S.?
#151
US rank in 2025
~594,052
Americans share it since 1880
1990
its peak year
In 1977, 3,284 American girls and 7 boys were registered Samantha — 85th among girls and 5,022nd among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Samantha’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
6
Soul Urge · being needed
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on S (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Samantha’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1977, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Samantha apart
The Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Television Film came in 2007, when Samantha Morton was 30.
The schooling ran through West Bridgford School.
Samantha Morton was 14 when the work began in 1991.
Tom Cotton shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- West Bridgford School
- Awards
- BAFTA Fellowship (2024) and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2007)
- Nominated for
- Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress and European Film Award for Best Actress
- Working from
- 1991
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 48
What the chart says
Samantha, according to the stars
Core essence
Samantha is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Samantha is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Samantha wants to be loved
Samantha wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Samantha creates
How Samantha makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Samantha creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Samantha is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Samantha is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Samantha gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Samantha's birth date. Working below.
Where Samantha sits
Six lines
Samantha’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Samantha Morton
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Nottingham on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Nottingham that night
Computed for 52.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Nottingham was Merak, in Ursa Major, 85.4° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.
From 53.0°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Nottingham at all: they sit past the −37.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 1° below the horizon, Moon down and 16% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Samantha's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · 1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Saturn
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Samantha Morton's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 13, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Samantha Morton was born on May 13, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
Samantha Morton's birth date, May 13, 1977, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Samantha’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Samantha Morton's date-only chart is Mars opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Samantha Morton combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Samantha’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMarsoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.7° orb
Samantha’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusconjunctionMars0.5° to 0.7° orb
Samantha’s affections and drive act as one.
stableVenusoppositionPluto0.6° to 1.2° orb
Samantha’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.9° to 1.6° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.9° to 1.0° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn1.6° to 2.1° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.6° to 1.7° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.2° to 2.4° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune2.4° to 2.9° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune2.8° to 3.6° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto3.1° to 3.4° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter3.3° to 3.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Samantha’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 2°46′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 27°28′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 14°07′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 9°04′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 2°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.2°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 0.5°
- Eros square Venus 1.4°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 2.0°
- Eros square Mars 2.0°
- Eros square Pluto 2.3°
Samantha’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 5 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars8 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn7 pts
7 major aspects
Configurations in Samantha’s chart
Kite · Venus, Saturn, Neptune, JupiterA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Venus, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
- Kite · Mars, Saturn, Neptune, JupiterA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
- Kite · Mars, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
T-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.6°
Born the same day as Samantha
Tom Cotton was born on May 13, 1977 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Nottingham, at 53.0°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Samantha
Other actors
- Robin Thicke1977
- Audrey Fleurot1977
- Tom Welling1977
- Brooke Mueller1977
- Jessica Chastain1977
- Shanola Hampton1977
Born in United Kingdom
- Johnny McDaidIrish musician, songwriter and music producer
- Peter Phillipsson of Anne, Princess Royal (born 1977); nephew of Charles III; first grandchild of Elizabeth II
- John OliverBritish-American comedian and television host
- James CordenEnglish actor, comedian, singer and television host (born 1978)
- Sam WorthingtonAustralian actor
- Samantha RonsonBritish singer, songwriter, guitarist, and DJ (born 1977)
More charts like Samantha’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Jenna UshkowitzKorean-American actress and singer
- Jamie-Lynn SiglerAmerican actress (born 1981)
- Gabourey SidibeAmerican actress (born 1983)
Born in Snake years
- Robert WardAmerican composer
- Zhou LongChinese-American composer
- Richard HowardAmerican poet and literary critic
Also born on May 13
- Stevie Wonder1950
- Scott Morrison1968
- Debby Ryan1993
- Dennis Rodman1961
- Stephen Colbert1964
- Lena Dunham1986
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Damiano DavidItalian singer-songwriter
- Mark KellyAmerican politician, astronaut, and naval officer
- Nicola PeltzAmerican actress
Other Taurus Snake charts
- Michael AtiyahBritish mathematician
- Maryam MirzakhaniIranian mathematician
- Ronald RossBritish doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist
- Harold UreyAmerican physical chemist
Other Gilded Guardians
- Martin FlavinAmerican novelist, playwright, screenwriter
- Laura PoitrasAmerican documentary film director and producer (born 1964)
- Rhys IsaacSouth African-Australian historian and academic
- Tom KittAmerican composer and musician
Famous people with Life Path 6
- James DeanAmerican actor
- Justin TimberlakeAmerican singer and actor
- Corazon AquinoPresident of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992
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Samantha’s cards
Computed from May 13, 1977. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Samantha’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q230190 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Samantha Morton at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Samantha Morton.
Quick answers about Samantha Morton’s chart
- How old is Samantha Morton?
- Samantha Morton is 49 years old, born May 13, 1977 in Nottingham, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Samantha Morton?
- Samantha Morton is a Taurus: born May 13, 1977, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Samantha Morton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 13, 1977 birth.
- What is Samantha Morton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Samantha Morton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Samantha Morton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Samantha Morton's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 5 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
