Kathryn Morris Far from her present day career of acting, her early days, from the age of five, were spent touring around the United States with her parents and six sisters in a gospel singing group, ‘Morris Code’. Kathryn Morris was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on January 28th 1969 but grew up in Windsor, Connecticut. She attended two colleges in Philadelphia including Temple University which is known for its programs in law, education, media and business. Morris moved from the travelling life of singing with her family into the theater and began refining her acting skills which lead to her making the decision to pursue a career as an actress. As with most young wanna-be’s she spent years waitressing and appearing in a 1998 television commercial for Nations Bank before her career was launched in her first film role where she was cast as the character of Billy Jo Roberston in the television movie ‘The Long Road Home’ in 1991, with Mark Harmon and an uncredited performance by Donald Sutherland. In that same year Kathryn made her debut in the fifteen minute Vanilla Ice ‘Cool’ video, which accompanied their rap single.
Several low profile roles came Kathryn’s way in the early days of her acting career such as a bit part as a psychiatric patient in the movie ‘As Good as it Gets’ which starred Jack Nicholson and Holly Hunt which achieved Oscar and Golden Globe status for both the movie and Nicholson. Morris went on to build her acting career by appearing, for a brief stint, as the villainous and vulnerable Najara on ‘Xena: Warrior Princess’ which starred Lucy Lawless and also featured Kevin Smith. The 1990’s and the new millennium brought bigger movie offers for Kathryn when she was cast in the movie ‘Minority Report’ with Tom Cruise and in the 2003 movie ‘Paycheck’ with Ben Affleck. The most notable role she had achieved by 2001 was her film appearance in Steven Speilberg’s A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) which also had her starring with John Hurt and Jude Law. The big break came for Morris when she took the leading role in the well received television series, ‘Cold Case’ in the role of Lilly Rush, a detective in the Philadelphia homicide squad who investigates unsolved crimes from years gone by with the help of co-stars Justin Chambers and Danny Pino. The series has become such an enormous success that it has been picked up by several international television companies.
Since 2004 Kathryn has lived in Los Angeles, California with her financial advisor fiancé, Randy Hamilton. ABB |
