| Kathryn Morris | |
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| Born | January 28, 1969 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Other names | Kathy Morris |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1991 - Present |
Kathryn Morris (born January 28, 1969) is an American actress, best known for her lead role as Detective Lilly Rush in the CBS series Cold Case.
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Morris' first role was a minor one in the 1991 tele-movie Long Road Home. Several other small parts followed, including a bit part as a psychiatric patient in the Oscar-winning As Good as It Gets. Her breakthrough role came as Lt. Annalisa "Stinger" Lindstrom in the television series Pensacola: Wings of Gold in 1997 for two seasons. Morris continued to work in films (notably ones directed by Rod Lurie) and had a brief stint on the Xena series in 1999.
After seeing her in the film The Contender, which DreamWorks distributed, Steven Spielberg cast her in two successive films, but her scenes as a rock star in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence which required her to take singing and guitar lessons were cut by the director while the next production, Minority Report, was filming. In the latter, she portrayed the tormented wife of Tom Cruise's character.[1][2]
In 2003, Morris won the lead role of detective Lilly Rush in the CBS dramatic series Cold Case. She also appeared in the 2004 films Mindhunters and Paycheck, opposite Ben Affleck, and more recently as the journalist wife of Josh Hartnett in Lurie's drama Resurrecting the Champ (2007). Morris will appear in the upcoming film Cougars Inc, which is due out in 2011.
Morris became the spokesperson for a new UV-Protective t-shirt line being launched by the Sun Safety Alliance (SSA), in collaboration with the Entertainment Industries Council, Inc. (EIC) in the Summer of 2009. SSA has teamed up with AYANA Apparel to provide fashion-forward UV-Protective t-shirts that protect your skin while maintaining your sense of style. Proceeds from this t-shirt line will be donated to SSA for educational programs to promote skin cancer prevention. She is quoted saying, “Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the U.S. More than one million cases of skin cancers are diagnosed each year, and one person dies from it every hour. As someone with fair skin, how could I not get involved in trying to prevent something so preventable?”
Morris was born in Cincinnati, Ohio[2] (though CBS News identifies her birthplace as Dallas).[4] She lived in both Texas and Connecticut as a child with her parents and five siblings. As a child, Morris and her family travelled the southern 'Bible Belt' as a gospel group called 'The Morris Code.' The group was mainly made up of Kathryn's father and three (out of five) of her siblings.[2] She attended two colleges in the Philadelphia area, Northeastern Christian College and Temple University.
She lives in Los Angeles, California.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1991 | Cool as Ice | Jen | |
| Long Road Home | Billy Jo Robertson | TV movies | |
| 1994 | Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story | Angela | |
| Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All | Zundro (Sandra) | ||
| Street Justice | Remy | Episode: "Pilot" | |
| A Friend to Die For | Monica Whitley | TV movies | |
| 1995 | W.E.I.R.D. World | Lucy | |
| Family Values | Borgyork Grumm | ||
| Sleepstalker | Megan | ||
| 1996 | The Prince | Emily | |
| Murder, She Wrote | Doreen | Episode: "What You Don't Know Can Kill You" | |
| L.A. Firefighters | Helen Regan | Episode: "Till Death Do Us Part" Episode: "It's a Family Affair" Episode: "The Fire Down Below" |
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| Silk Stalkings | Judith Millay | Episode: "Compulsion" | |
| Relativity | Sylvie | Episode: "Pilot" | |
| Ink | Woman | Episode: "Above the Fold" | |
| 1997 | Poltergeist: The Legacy | Laura Davis | Episode: "Silent Partner" |
| As Good as It Gets | Psychiatric Patient | ||
| Pensacola: Wings of Gold | Lt. Annalisa Lindstrom | 1997-1998 (22 episodes) | |
| 1998 | The Prophecy II | Anxious Mother | Video |
| Inferno | Ryan Tibbet | TV movie | |
| Xena: Warrior Princess | Najara | Episode: "Crusader" | |
| 1999 | Episode: "The Convert" | ||
| The Magnificent Seven | Charlotte Richmond | Episode: "Wagon Train: Part 1" Episode: "Wagon Train: Part 2" |
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| Inherit the Wind | Rachel Brown | TV movie | |
| Screenplay | |||
| Deterrence | Lizzie Woods | ||
| Providence | Molly | Episode: "The Third Thing" | |
| 2000 | The Contender | Paige Willomina | |
| Hell Swarm | Allie | TV movies | |
| Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For | Patricia Williams | ||
| 2001 | Role of a Lifetime | Chelsea Cellini | |
| Artificial Intelligence: AI | Teenage Honey | ||
| The Last Castle | DOD Investigator (scenes deleted) | ||
| And Never Let Her Go | Anne Marie Fahey | TV movie | |
| The Mind of a Married Man | Sandy | 4 episodes | |
| 2002 | Minority Report | Lara Clarke | |
| Hostage | Linda Delacroix | ||
| 2003 | Paycheck | Rita Dunne | |
| Cold Case | Lilly Rush | 2003-2010 (156 episodes) | |
| 2004 | Mindhunters | Sara Moore | |
| 2007 | Resurrecting the Champ | Joyce Kernan | |
| 2008 | Assassination of a High School President | Nurse Platt | |
| 2011 | Cougars, Inc. | Alison | |
| 2011 | Moneyball | Tara Beane |