Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)

Samantha Jones
Kim Cattrall as Samantha Jones
First appearance	Sex and the City: "Pilot" (episode 1.01) The Carrie Diaries: "Win Some, Lose Some" (episode 2.01)
Last appearance	Original series: Sex and the City 2
Created by	Candace Bushnell
Portrayed by	Kim Cattrall (adult; original series) Lindsey Gort (young adult; prequel series)
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Nickname(s)	Sam, Jonesy, Sammy Joe
Gender	Female
Occupation	Public relations
Family	Unnamed parents Two siblings
Nationality	American

Samantha Jones is a fictional character on the HBO-produced television series Sex and the City and its CW-produced prequel series The Carrie Diaries. She is portrayed by actresses Kim Cattrall and Lindsey Gort. Cattrall received a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award for her performances.

Samantha is one of four single friends portrayed in the series, a proud, confident, highly sexual woman. Most of her storylines revolve around the frequent sex and brief affairs she has. She is outspoken and a self-proclaimed "try-sexual" (meaning she'll try anything at least once). She is portrayed as brash, straightforward, highly protective of her friends and unafraid of confrontation. She also displays nonchalance toward dating and monogamy and becomes uncomfortable whenever her sexual relationships take an emotional turn.

Not much is known about Samantha's younger years. It is known that she came from a working class background, and she spent most of her teenage years selling Dilly bars at Dairy Queen to earn pocket money. Season 3 implies that she has at least two siblings, when she mentions that at her age, her mother "was saddled with three kids and a drunk husband". In the second episode of the second season of The Carrie Diaries, she said that she came from the Everglades, and that she used to have alligator overturned by car for breakfast. She later mentions partying at Studio 54 during its heyday, implying she moved sometime in the mid- to late-1970s from wherever she grew up to New York City. She has mentioned having had at least two abortions, one of which occurred while she was in college.

Samantha is the eldest of the four friends (in the final scene of the Sex and the City film, her 50th birthday is celebrated), though it is implied during the early seasons that the other three are not aware of how much older Samantha is than they are. She has her own public-relations company. In the book's prequel series, it is revealed that Carrie met Samantha first.