Kathryn Morris Biography

Kathryn Morris is an American actress who is most recognized for playing Detective Lilly Rush on the CBS police procedural series ‘Cold Case’. Kathryn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, but grew up in Connecticut. She was the youngest of her parents’ six children. Her father was a Bible scholar, while her mother was an insurance agent. Her parents divorced when she was six. She and her siblings lived with their father. Her family travelled the entire southern ‘Bible Belt’ as a gospel group called ‘The Morris Code’. They sang at church functions and weddings. Kathryn participated in several high school plays before landing her first acting gig in a Japanese music video. She met with an accident while driving to her first professional acting job. She still arrived on time and performed well. Her first screen appearance was for a television movie called ‘Long Road Home’, which aired in 1991. In the same year, she made her Hollywood debut by appearing in the film ‘Cool as Ice’. After that, she has made several appearances in television series and feature films. She has a production company called Hot Plate Productions. In August 2013, Kathryn and her long-term boyfriend Johnny Messner became the proud parents of twin boys, Jameson and Rocco.