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Kathryn Morris
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Birth name : Kathryn Morris |
| Date of birth :
28 January 1969 |
| Place of birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
| Nickname:
Katie |
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| Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) |
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"I love comedy. I would love to do more of it. There have actually been so many close calls on me doing some straight-out black comedy and I’ve almost done some pretty substantial roles. I think comedy is much harder. But I think that if you have a really strong base in drama, then comedy is much more believable. Doing the work you do in drama, when you do a comedy it makes the comedy so much richer and so much more believable. I love both." |
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Kathryn Morris (born January 28, 1969) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her lead role in the CBS series Cold Case. Before Kathryn Morris was cast in her career-making role as Detective Lilly Rush, the cool, tough-talking cop on “Cold Case” (2003 - ), the gamine blond played roles in many b-grade horror films and small parts in several influential 90s movies.
Morris' first role was a minor one in the 1991 telemovie Long Road Home. Morris made two horror movies in 1995. She appeared in “Sleepstalker: The Sandman’s Last Rites,” in which a dead serial killer returns as an amorphous but deadly pile of sand and the telepic “W.E.I.R.D. World” (FOX), a horror anthology about a scientific organization where everyone is trying to double cross someone. Also in 1995, Morris was a member of a trailer park family manipulating the system in “Family Values” (UPN, 1995). Two years later Morris was a mental patient in “As Good as it Gets” (1997) with Jack Nicholson, and also played a regular role on the naval drama “Pensacola: Wings of Gold” (Syndicated, 1997-1998) with James Brolin. Morris made two more horror movies before the 90s were over. In “The Prophecy II” (1998), the Archangel Gabriel turns evil after doing some time in hell. She also appeared in “The Inferno” (1998), the second movie in a trilogy about three witches.
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. She played it 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.
The future TV star made her first guest appearance on “Murder: She Wrote,” “Silk Stalkings,” “Ink,” “L.A. Firefighters,” and “Poltergeist, The Legacy.” On “Xena: Warrior Princess,” (Syndicated, 1998), Morris played Najara, the vulnerable villain warrior. In 1999, Morris appeared in two episodes of “Magnificent Seven” (CBS) an episode of “Providence” (WB) and three movies, the updated “Inherit the Wind” telepic (SHO) with Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott and Beau Bridges; “Screenplay” in which a desperate Hollywood screenwriter holds an agent hostage in an effort to sell his script; and she was half of a middle class couple marooned in a Colorado diner with the U.S. President during an international nuclear crisis in “Deterrence.” The film starred Timothy Hutton and Kevin Pollack.
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 his Minority Report was filming. In the latter, she portrayed the tormented wife of Tom Cruise's character. A real break came in 2002 with her role as Tom Cruise’s beautiful, whimsical estranged wife in “Minority Report,” also featuring then-newcomer Colin Farrell and Dame Judi Dench. Morris made two episodes of “The Mind of a Married Man” (HBO, 2001) and starred in “The Hire: Hostage” (2001), as a kidnap victim whose only hope is her cell phone, before being tapped for her breakout role as the sole female detective on the “Cold Case” (CBS, 2003 - ) police squad. As the star, not to mention the only regular female role on the show, Morris brought a steely determination to the part, which makes Detective Lilly Rush seem absolutely indomitable. Rush is smart, cool and always right. And it looks incredibly easy.
In 2003, Morris won the lead role of detective Lilly Rush in the CBS dramatic series Cold Case in which she plays a passionately concerned but relationship-shy detective assigned to solving murders that frequently are decades old. The actress also appeared in the 2004 films Mindhunters and Paycheck. Along with the new, steady prime-time exposure, Morris was also seen with Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman in the blockbuster, “Paycheck” (2003), in which an engineer’s memory is erased mysteriously and he must piece his life back together. The following year, the lovely actress had a role in “Mindhunters” (2004). Morris starred with Val Kilmer, LL Cool J and Christian Slater in this film where an FBI training session on an island goes horribly wrong after it’s discovered that one of them is a serial killer.
Most sources report Morris was born in Cincinnati, Ohio (though CBS News identifies her birthplace as Dallas). She was raised in the Churches of Christ religion in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, and toured the country in the family's gospel band, Morris Code. She attended two colleges in the Philadelphia area, including Temple University. She lives in Los Angeles, California. In 2003, she was briefly engaged to Randy Hamilton, a financial advisor.
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