Kathryn Morris

Kathryn Susan Morris (born January 28, 1969)<ref>Template:Cite news See also:

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Early and personal life

Kathryn Susan Morris was born on January 28, 1969 in Cincinnati, Ohio.<ref name="parade" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She grew up Christian in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, with her parents, Stanley, a Bible scholar, and Joyce, an insurance agent,<ref name="People2003">Template:Cite news</ref> and five siblings before moving away. From age 6 to 17, Morris and her family traveled the southern 'Bible Belt' as a gospel group called 'The Morris Code'. The group was mainly made up of Morris's father and three (out of five) of her siblings.<ref name="parade" />

She attended two colleges in the Philadelphia tri-state area, Northeastern Christian Junior College and Temple University. After studying theatre in high school, she was involved in a hit-and-run collision while on her way to her first acting gig, a Japanese music video based on the musical Grease. She still made it to the gig and that's when she knew she was going to be an actress.<ref name="People2003"/>

Morris was in a relationship with actor Johnny Messner.<ref>Template:Cite tweet</ref> On April 8, 2013, Morris announced they were expecting twins. She gave birth to twin boys,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> who were diagnosed with autism when they were three years old.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In October 2021, Morris launched The Savants: an initiative to "revolutionize how the world lives on and off the spectrum".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Career

Morris's 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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 from the film by the director, which was particularly agonizing for her. In Minority Report, she portrayed the tormented wife of Tom Cruise's character.<ref name="nymag">Spielberg: Don't Hate Me, from the June 24, 2002, column by Marc S. Malkin in New York</ref><ref name='parade'>In Step With... Kathryn Morris, a May 2004 article from Parade magazineTemplate:Dead link</ref>

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 appeared in the Hallmark Channel movie The Sweeter Side of Life, a romantic comedy.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Cool as Ice	Jen
1995	Sleepstalker	Megan	Direct-to-video
1996	Paper Dragons	Kate
1996	Template:Sortname	Emily
1997	As Good as It Gets	Psychiatric Patient
1998	Template:Sortname	Anxious Mother	Direct-to-video
1999	Screenplay	Fanny
1999	Deterrence	Lizzie Woods
2000	Template:Sortname	Paige Willomina
2001	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Teenage Honey
2001	Template:Sortname	DOD Investigator	Scenes deleted
2002	Role of a Lifetime	Chelsea Cellini
2002	Minority Report	Lara Anderton
2002	Hostage	Linda Delacroix	Segment for the BMW short film series The Hire
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 deleted
2012	Sunday's Mother	Gillian	Short film
2013	The Coin	Rachael	Short film
2015	The Perfect Guy	Karen
2015	Bone Tomahawk	Lorna Hunt
2017	You Get Me	Mrs. Hewitt
2019	The Dirt	Deana Richards
2023	Hayseed	Joyce Metts

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	Sweet Justice	Remy	Episode: "Pilot"
1994	Template:Sortname	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	Main role (season 1), 22 episodes
1998	Inferno	Ryan Ribbet	TV movie
1998–1999	Xena: Warrior Princess	Najara	Episodes: "Crusader", "The Convert"
1999	Template:Sortname	Charlotte Richmond	Episodes: "Wagon Train: Part 1", "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	Template:Sortname	Sandy	4 episodes
2003–2010	Cold Case	Lilly Rush	Lead role, 156 episodes
2013	The Sweeter Side of Life	Desiree Harper	TV movie
2016	Colony	Charlotte Burgess	3 episodes
2018	Reverie	Monica Shaw	Series regular; 10 episodes

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