Samantha Jones (fictional character)

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Samantha Jones is a fictional character in the HBO-produced television series Sex and the City. She is played by Kim Cattrall.

Samantha is one of four single friends portrayed in the series. Of the four, she is the most sexually liberated, and most of her storylines revolve around the many men and sex she has. She is confident, strong, outspoken, and a self-proclaimed "try-sexual" (meaning she'll try anything once).

Samantha is the oldest of the four friends (in season 6, she reveals she is "forty-fucking-five"), and owns her own public relations company. In the early part of the series, she lives on the Upper East Side, but ends up moving to an expensive apartment in the Meatpacking District (only after one of her late-night visitors lets in a mugger who attacks one of her older female neighbors).

Samantha's main love are men - many of them. Over the course of the series, she sleeps with plenty of interesting characters, including a man who will only "swing" with her if she takes an AIDS test, a guy with "funky spunk," and a trainer from her gym who brands her by shaving her hair "down there" into a lightning bolt. She never keeps the men around for long, and she once said that she frequently loses underwear because she leaves them at guys' places and never returns. She even slept with her good friend Charlotte's brother, prompting an angry Charlotte to call her vagina "the hottest spot in town, [because] it's always open."

One of Samantha's best qualities is her loyalty to her friends. When Carrie confesses to her that she's having an affair with her married ex-boyfriend (and cheating on her own boyfriend, as well), Samantha tells her that judging is not her style and offers her support. Although she fights with Charlotte a few times, they always manage to get past their differences and make up. Despite having trouble adjusting to Miranda having a child (in season 4), she willingly gives up a coveted hair appointment and sends Miranda in her place, staying behind to babysit and give her friend a much-needed break.

Samantha does have a few "serious" relationships throughout the run of the series. She flirts with lesbianism and enters into a brief relationship with a woman, an artist named Maria, in season 4. Later that season 4, she meets and falls in love with hotel magnate Richard Wright, only to have her heart broken when she catches him cheating on her. After giving Richard a second chance, she decides to end the relationship when she realizes she can't trust him. In the show's final season, she meets a waiter named Jerry Jerrod (she later changes his name to Smith Jerrod), who grows to "mean more to [her] than any man [she's] ever known."

In the show's last season, Samantha is diagnosed with breast cancer. She faces the challenge head on, playing with her look by wearing crazy wigs after she loses her hair to chemotherapy. In one of the final episodes, she gives a speech for a cancer benefit and receives a standing ovation for removing her wig onstage and admitting that she was suffering hot flashes. The audience appreciated her candor and honesty, and many of the women in the audience stood up and removed their own wigs.

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