Celebrity Nooz: Kathryn Morris

Kathryn Morris (Actress) - Cold Case

Updated: 2/07/22

Name: Kathryn Morris

Birth Name: Kathryn Susan Morris

Born: January 28, 1969 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Claim To Fame: Kathryn Morris is an American actress best known for her lead role as Detective Lilly Rush in the hit CBS TV-series Cold Case.

Family Life: Morris has been in a relationship with Johnny Messner since 2010. They have twin sons together, Jameson West Messner & Rocco McQueen Messner.

Info: Grew up in Windsor Locks, Connecticut with her parents, Stanley, a Bible scholar, and Joyce, an insurance agent, 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'.

She attended two colleges in the Philadelphia area, Northeastern Christian Junior College and Temple University.

Morris gave birth to twin boys, Jameson and Rocco, on August 21, 2013. Jameson and Rocco were diagnosed with autism when they were 3 years old. In October 2021, Morris launched The Savants; an initiative to "revolutionize how the world lives on and off the spectrum".

Trivia: Morris's first role was a minor one in the 1991 tele-movie Long Road Home.

Her breakthrough role came as Lt. Annalisa "Stinger" Lindstrom in the television series Pensacola: Wings of Gold in 1997 for two seasons.

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.

Where Are They Now: Morris is heading the cast of the Indie Comedy-Mystery film Hayseed, which is currently in post-production. No released date has been announced.

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