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Samara Morgan is a fictional character played by Daveigh Chase, Kelly Stables, and Bonnie Morgan. She was featured in the films The Ring, The Ring Two, and Rings.

Samara Morgan is depicted as an otherworldly little girl, responsible for the creation of the cursed videotape from the American version of the Ring story. Her usual appearance is of a girl with long, dark hair covering her face and wearing a white dress. Samara possesses the power of nensha like Sadako, capable of burning images onto surfaces and into the minds of others. Unlike Sadako, Samara psychically disfigures her victims' faces before they finally die of a heart attack.

Samara's history is covered through the American films. The Ring states that Anna and Richard Morgan, who own a horse ranch on Moesko Island, Washington, claimed to have adopted Samara from unknown parents on the mainland after numerous unsuccessful attempts to have a child on their own. As Samara grows older, her powers burn horrible images into Anna's mind, nearly driving her insane. Richard banishes Samara to live in the ranch's barn, but she uses her powers to drive Anna's beloved horses to suicide after they "kept her up at night". At some point, Samara is taken to a psychiatric hospital but the doctors are unable to explain her powers. During a family vacation on Shelter Mountain, Anna attacks Samara as she stands before an old well, suffocating her with a garbage bag and then dropping her down the well. Anna then commits suicide by jumping off a cliff. However, Samara clings to life for seven days alone in the well before dying from a combination of starvation and hypothermia. Eventually, a set of rental cabins are built near the well, one on top of it. This allows Samara to project her visions into a VCR tape, creating the seven-day curse. Samara's curse kills Katie, the niece of journalist Rachel Keller, who investigates the tape's origins. Rachel, her ex-boyfriend Noah Clay and their son Aidan all watch the video. Rachel meets Richard, who warns her to stay away and then kills himself via electrocution. Rachel and Noah eventually find Samara's corpse in the well and bury it. This however does nothing to appease Samara as hoped by Rachel and Noah and she kills Noah as per the rules of the curse. Rachel destroys the original videocassette in a fit of rage but uses a copied version of the video to continue the curse in order to save Aidan.

The Ring Two expands upon Samara's backstory: her mother, a woman named Evelyn believed that her daughter had a demon inside her and tried to drown the girl, but she was prevented by nuns. Evelyn is sent to an insane asylum, while Samara was put up for adoption. In the film's present timeline, Samara deliberately manipulates the tape to get back to Rachel, having decided to make Rachel her new mother. After Rachel burns the tape, Samara possesses Aidan. Rachel drugs Samara and then nearly drowns Aidan to exorcise her. Samara retreats into a television set, and Rachel allows herself to be pulled into Samara's visionary world and down the well. Rachel climbs out of the well with Samara pursuing her, but Rachel covers the seal on the well just in time.

In Rings, the film expands further back on Evelyn's backstory. Evelyn was kidnapped by a local priest, Galen Burke, who raped and impregnated her, which led to Samara's conception during Evelyn's captivity. Years after his daughter's death, Burke sealed Samara's remains in a wall of his house at some point after the events of the first film, knowing her spirit would still plague those who have encountered her. He also blinded himself so Samara could not kill him. Samara has been looking for a compassionate host in order to be reborn, which she finds in a teenage girl named Julia. Burke tries to kill Julia, but Samara rises out of Julia's iPhone, restores Burke's sight, and kills him. After the cremation of her remains, Samara's spirit now resides in Julia. In the film's closing scenes, Samara's video begins spreading online and goes viral.

Victims

1. Dr. Scott - Psychically attacked to death.
2. 36 Morgan ranch horses - Leapt off a cliff to their deaths.
3. Katie Embry - Heart attack.
4. Josh Turnadot - Thrown off balcony to his death.
5. Scott Monroy - Killed on impact in car crash.
6. Stacey Miller - Killed on impact in car crash.
7. Shelter Mountain innkeeper (deleted scenes) - Heart attack.
8. Ferry horse - Mangled to death by the ferry propellers.
9. Noah Clay - Heart attack.
10. Unnamed video rental store customer - Heart attack.
11. Numerous Rings members Heart attack or driven to commit suicide by Samara.
12. Jake Pierce - Heart attack.
13. Dr. Emma Temple - Injected air into her veins.
14. Max Rourke - Heart attack.
15. Carter - Heart attack.
16. Faith - Heart attack.
17. Kelly - Heart attack.
18. Thousands of other plane passengers - Incinerated in plane crash.
19. Skye Johnston - Heart attack.
20. Professor Gabriel Brown - Electrocuted by utility pole.
21. Galen Burke - Heart attack.
22. Holt Anthony (presumed) - Heart attack.
23. Julia (presumed) - Possessed.