She attended the small high school of Winsdor Locks, where she took part in many plays, and had many roles of singing. Several other small parts followed, including a bit part as a psychiatric patient in the Oscar-winning As Good as It Gets. Morris continued to work in films (notably ones directed by Rod Lurie) and had a brief stint on the Xena series in 1999. in 2003, Morris won the lead role of detective Lilly Rush in the CBS dramatic series Cold Case. She is quoted saying, “Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the U.S. More than one million cases of skin cancers are diagnosed each year, and one person dies from it every hour. She lived in both Texas and Connecticut as a child with her parents and five siblings.
