{"id":19377,"date":"2021-04-07T20:09:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T01:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=19377"},"modified":"2021-04-07T20:09:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T01:09:16","slug":"starz-conjures-up-the-serpent-queen-lead-with-multi-award-winning-samantha-morton-set-to-star-as-catherine-de-medici","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/07\/starz-conjures-up-the-serpent-queen-lead-with-multi-award-winning-samantha-morton-set-to-star-as-catherine-de-medici\/","title":{"rendered":"Starz Conjures Up &#8220;The Serpent Queen&#8221; Lead with Multi-Award Winning Samantha Morton Set to Star as Catherine de Medici"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19378\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Serpent-Queen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Serpent-Queen.jpg 650w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Serpent-Queen-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>STARZ announced today Golden Globe(R) winner, two-time Academy Award(R) and two-time BAFTA Award-nominated actress, Samantha Morton (<em>Minority Report<\/em>, &#8220;<em>Harlots<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>The Walking Dead<\/em>&#8220;), has been cast to star as the nefarious Catherine de Medici in the new STARZ Original series &#8220;<strong><em>The Serpent Queen<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; &#8211; the dark legend centered on de Medici &#8211; from writer and executive producer Justin Haythe (<em>Revolutionary Road, Red Sparrow, The Lone Ranger<\/em>). The series will also be executive produced by Francis Lawrence (<em>The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2<\/em>) and Erwin Stoff (<em>The Matrix, 13 Hours, Edge of Tomorrow<\/em>). Stacie Passon (&#8220;<em>Transparent<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Dickinson<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Billions<\/em>&#8220;) will direct multiple episodes, including the premiere episode.<\/p>\n<p>Multi-award-winning British actress Samantha Morton first garnered international attention in Carine Adler&#8217;s Under the Skin, earning her the Boston Film Critics Award for Best Actress. She has since gone on to work with such acclaimed directors as Woody Allen (<em>Sweet and Lowdown<\/em>), Lynne Ramsay (<em>Morvern Callar<\/em>), Stephen Spielberg (<em>Minority Report<\/em>), Jim Sheridan (<em>In America<\/em>), Michael Winterbottom (<em>Code 46<\/em>), Shekhar Kapur (<em>The Golden Age<\/em>), Harmony Korine (<em>Mister Lonely<\/em>), Anton Corbijn (<em>Control<\/em>), Charlie Kaufman (<em>Synecdoche, New York<\/em>), David Cronenberg (<em>Cosmopolis<\/em>), Andrew Stanton (<em>John Carter<\/em>), Spike Jonze (<em>Her<\/em>), and David Yates (<em>Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them<\/em>). In a highly-acclaimed career, Morton has twice been nominated for an Academy Award(R), twice nominated for a BAFTA award, and in 2007 she received a Best Actress Golden Globe(R) for her portrayal of notorious child-murderer Myra Hindley in the NBC\/Channel 4 film &#8220;<em>Longford<\/em>.&#8221; In 2009, Morton made her directorial debut with &#8220;<em>The Unloved<\/em>,&#8221; a semi-autobiographical film based in the British children&#8217;s care system, winning the BAFTA Television Award for Best Single Drama. Recently Morton has starred in the hit Hulu\/ BBC television show &#8220;<em>Harlots<\/em>&#8221; and AMC&#8217;s award-winning &#8220;<em>The Walking Dead<\/em>,&#8221; where she played the iconic villain, Alpha. In 2020, Morton was nominated for Best Actress BAFTA for the Dominic Savage drama &#8220;<em>I Am Kirsty<\/em>.&#8221; Morton recently finished filming the movie <em>Save the Cinema<\/em>.<\/p><div id=\"morty-4063726036\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Exemplifying the network&#8217;s #TakeTheLead commitment, &#8220;<em>The Serpent Queen<\/em>&#8221; is a cunning account of one of the most influential women ever to wear a crown. Considered an immigrant, common and plain, Catherine de Medici is married into the 16th-century French court as an orphaned teenager expected to bring a fortune in dowry and produce many heirs, only to discover that her husband is in love with an older woman, her dowry is unpaid and she&#8217;s unable to conceive. 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