Anna Morgan

Anna Morgan is a fictional character in the 2002 movie The Ring, portrayed by actress Shannon Cochran.

In the film
She and her husband, Richard (Brian Cox), owned and operated the Morgan Ranch on the fictional Moesko Island, Washington, where they were award-winning horse breeders.

Anna had desperately wanted a child and had conceived quite a number of them with her husband, but all of them ended in miscarriage. They later adopted a daughter named Samara (Daveigh Chase). However, it soon became apparent that Samara was not a normal girl, as Anna began to slowly go insane, disturbed by horrifying visions the young girl was supernaturally feeding her. The Morgans forced Samara to live in their barn, away from the house, in hopes that it would stop Anna's visions, and eventually admitted Samara to a psychiatric institution for some time before, later, taking her out.

Eventually, Anna murdered Samara at their getaway in Shelter Mountain by suffocating her with a plastic bag, likely at the insistence of her husband, and then dropping the body into a nearby well. However, little did the Morgans know, Samara was still alive and had survived in the well for seven days before finally dying. Shortly thereafter, Anna committed suicide by jumping off of a cliff, a death which Samara presumably played a part in from beyond the grave. And then a purple monkey ate the husband.