Kathryn Morris Biography

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.

Career

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 as Najara.

After seeing her in the film, The Contender (which DreamWorks distributed), Steven Spielberg cast her in two successive films. Her scenes as a rock star in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, which required Morris to take intensive singing and guitar lessons were cut by the director, which was particularly agonizing for her. In Minority Report, she portrayed the tormented wife of Tom Cruise's character.

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 appeared in the film Cougars, Inc. which was distributed in 2011. In 2012, Morris landed the starring role in The Sweeter Side of Life, a romantic comedy, as Desiree Harper. The 90-minute film premiered on the Hallmark Channel on January 19, 2013.

Charity work

• Toys for Tots at Pole Position Raceway in 2007

Personal life

Morris was born in Cincinnati, Ohio (though CBS News identifies her birthplace as Dallas). She lived in both Texas and Connecticut as a child with her parents and five siblings. As a child, Morris and her family traveled 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. She attended two colleges in the Philadelphia area, Northeastern Christian College and Temple University.

She currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

On April 8, 2013, Morris announced that she and her boyfriend Johnny Messner are expecting twin boys in early September 2013. She welcomed twin boys Jameson and Rocco which were born on 21 August 2013.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Cool as Ice	Jen
1995	Sleepstalker	Megan	Video
1996	Paper Dragons	Kate
1996	'	Emily
1997	As Good as It Gets	Psychiatric Patient
1998	'	Anxious Mother	Video
1999	Screenplay	Fanny
1999	Deterrence (film)	Lizzie Woods
2000	'	Paige Willomina
2001	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Teenage Honey
2001	'	DOD Investigator (scenes deleted)
2002	Role of a Lifetime	Chelsea Cellini
2002	Minority Report	Lara Clarke
2002	Hostage	Linda Delacroix	Short film
2003	Paycheck	Rita Dunne
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	Billy Beane's Wife	Scenes Cut
2012	Sunday's Mother	Gillian	Short film
2013	The Sweeter Side of Life formerly Confections of a Discarded Woman	Desiree Harper	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Long Road Home	Billy Jo Robertson	TV movie
1994	Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story	Angela	TV movie
1994	Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All	Zundro (Sandra)	TV movie
1994	Street Justice	Remy	Episode: "Pilot"
1994	'	Monica Whitley	TV movie
1995	W.E.I.R.D. World	Lucy	TV movie
1995	Family Values	Borgyork Grumm	TV movie
1996	Murder, She Wrote	Doreen the Waitress	Episode: "What You Don't Know Can Kill You"
1996	L.A. Firefighters	Helen Regan	3 episodes
1996	Silk Stalkings	Judith Millay	Episode: "Compulsion"
1996	Relativity	Sylvie	Episode: "Pilot"
1996	Ink	Woman	Episode: "Above the Fold"
1997	Poltergeist: The Legacy	Laura Davis	Episode: "Silent Partner"
1997-1998	Pensacola: Wings of Gold	Stinger	22 episodes
1998	Inferno	Ryan Ribbet	TV movie
1998	Xena: Warrior Princess	Najara	Episode: "Crusader"
1999	Xena: Warrior Princess	Najara	Episode: "The Convert"
1999	'	Charlotte Richmond	Episode: "Wagon Train: Part 1" Episode: "Wagon Train: Part 2"
1999	Inherit the Wind	Rachel Brown	TV movie
1999	Providence	Molly	Episode: "The Third Thing"
2000	Hell Swarm	Allie	TV movie
2000	Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For	Patricia Williams	TV movie
2001	And Never Let Her Go	Anne Marie Fahey	TV movie
2001	'	Sandy	4 episodes
2003-2010	Cold Case	Lilly Rush	156 episodes
2013	The Sweeter Side of Life	Desiree Harper	TV movie