| Samantha Jones | |
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| Sex and the City character | |
 Kim Cattrall as Samantha Jones | |
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| Created by | Candace Bushnell |
| Adapted by | Darren Star |
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| Nationality | American |
Samantha Jones is a fictional character who appears in the Sex and the City media franchise. She first appeared in writer Candace Bushnell's newspaper column Sex and the City, a semi-fictionalized account of the author's life in Manhattan that was serialized in The New York Observer from 1994 to 1996 and anthologized as a book of the same name in 1996. Samantha is a confident and sexually liberated middle aged woman, distinguished by her unselfconscious promiscuity and her disinclination towards monogamy.
The character was portrayed by Kim Cattrall in the television adaptation of the column created by Darren Star that aired on HBO from 1998 to 2004. Samantha is one of four characters composing the central ensemble of the series, along with Carrie Bradshaw, Charlotte York, and Miranda Hobbes. Cattrall reprised the role in the two sequel films to Sex and the City, released in 2008 and in 2010. Samantha also appears in And Just Like That..., the 2021 revival of the HBO series, initially as an unseen character and later by Cattrall in a cameo appearance. The character also appears in Bushnell's 2011 young adult fiction novel Summer and the City, a sequel to her earlier The Carrie Diaries (2010); the novels were adapted into a television series of that name that aired on The CW from 2013 to 2014, in which Samantha is portrayed by Lindsey Gort.
Both the character and Cattrall's performance have received critical acclaim, with Cattrall receiving two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and five Emmy nominations for her portrayal of the character.