Sarah Jane Morris is an American

United States

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 actress. She plays Julia Walker

Julia Walker

Julia Ridge is a fictional character on the primetime show Brothers & Sisters. She is played by actress Sarah Jane Morris.-Background:Julia was the only child of Ben and Beth Ridge. She eventually met and married Thomas Walker....

 on Brothers & Sisters and formerly had a recurring role on Felicity.

Personal life

Born in Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....

, the daughter of Walker Morris, a commercial airline pilot, and Janie Morris, a social worker, the youngest of four siblings, she graduated from the private all-girls' Hutchison School

Hutchison School

Hutchison School is an independent day school for girls in grades PK-12 located in Memphis, Tennessee.- History :Hutchison School was founded by Mary Grimes Hutchison in 1902. The first few years of the school included the training of young boys and girls by Miss Hutchison alone. One of its most...

 in Memphis. She attended Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University is a private university in Dallas, Texas, United States. Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU operates campuses in Dallas, Plano, and Taos, New Mexico. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church...

 (SMU) in Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Texas

Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma

Kappa Kappa Gamma

Kappa Kappa Gamma is a collegiate women's fraternity, founded at Monmouth College, in Monmouth, Illinois, USA. Although the groundwork of the organization was developed as early as 1869, the 1876 Convention voted that October 13, 1870 should be recognized at the official Founders Day, because no...

, and where she met her future husband, Ned Brower

Ned Brower

Edward Andrew "Ned" Brower is the drummer/vocalist in the Los Angeles rock quintet Rooney and is also a model and actor. Brower was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S., and raised in Seattle, Washington. He has modeled for J...

 (they married on February 19, 2005). They have a son, Emmett Andrew Brower (born January 24, 2010).

Career

Morris moved to Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 after college to pursue an acting career and immediately found work on such network television series as Boston Public

Boston Public

Boston Public is an American drama television series created by David E. Kelley and broadcast on Fox. It centered on Winslow High School, a fictional public high school located in Boston, Massachusetts. The show was named for the real public school district in which it takes place...

, Undeclared

Undeclared

Undeclared is an American sitcom that aired on Fox during the 2001–02 season.- Premise :The half-hour comedy was Judd Apatow's follow-up to his earlier television series Freaks and Geeks, which also lasted for one season...

and Ed

Ed (TV series)

Ed is an NBC television program co-produced by David Letterman's Worldwide Pants Incorporated, NBC Productions, and Viacom Productions that aired from 2000 to 2004....

.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Other notes
2000	Coyote Ugly Coyote Ugly (film) Coyote Ugly is a 2000 romantic comedy/drama based on the actual Coyote Ugly Saloon, set in New York City. The film stars Piper Perabo and Adam Garcia...	Girl at the Surprise Party
2005	Underclassman Underclassman Underclassman is a 2005 action comedy film directed by Marcos Siega, and stars Nick Cannon, Shawn Ashmore, Roselyn Sánchez, Kelly Hu, Hugh Bonneville, and Cheech Marin...	Jamie	Uncredited Role
2007	Look	Courtney
2008	Seven Pounds Seven Pounds Seven Pounds is a 2008 film, directed by Gabriele Muccino. Will Smith stars as a man who sets out to change the lives of seven people. Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, and Barry Pepper star. The film was released in theaters in the United States and Canada on December 19, 2008, by Columbia Pictures...	Susan
2009	Seeds	Vivian	Short film
2010	6 Month Rule	Beth	post-production
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Boston Public Boston Public Boston Public is an American drama television series created by David E. Kelley and broadcast on Fox. It centered on Winslow High School, a fictional public high school located in Boston, Massachusetts. The show was named for the real public school district in which it takes place...	Sally Barnes	Episode: Chapter Fifteen Episode: Chapter Nineteen
	Murder in Small Town X Murder in Small Town X Murder in Small Town X is an American reality television series created by George Verschoor, Robert Fisher, Jr., and Gordon Cassidy and was hosted by Sgt...	Abigail 'Abby' Flint	Unknown episodes
	Dark Angel Dark Angel (TV series) Dark Angel is an American biopunk/cyberpunk science fiction television series created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee. The show premiered in the United States on the Fox network on October 3, 2000, and was canceled after two seasons...	X6/Ralph	Episode: Bag 'Em
	Undeclared Undeclared Undeclared is an American sitcom that aired on Fox during the 2001–02 season.- Premise :The half-hour comedy was Judd Apatow's follow-up to his earlier television series Freaks and Geeks, which also lasted for one season...	Jana	Episode: Rush and Pledge Episode: Hell Week
	Undressed Undressed Undressed is an American anthology series that aired on MTV from July 26, 1999 to September 5, 2002. The series was created and executive produced by British director Roland Joffé.-Synopsis:...	Paula	Unknown episodes
2001–2002	Felicity	Zoe Webb	8 episodes
2002	First Monday First Monday First Monday was a short-lived U.S. television midseason replacement drama centered on the U.S. Supreme Court. Like another 2002 series, "The Court," it was inspired by the prominent role the Supreme Court played in settling the 2000 presidential election...	Brittany Kant	Episode: Age of Consent
2003	Ed Ed (TV series) Ed is an NBC television program co-produced by David Letterman's Worldwide Pants Incorporated, NBC Productions, and Viacom Productions that aired from 2000 to 2004....	Stacie	Episode: The Decision
2005	Cold Case	Amy Lind (1999)	Episode: Start-Up
2006	Windfall	Zoe Reida	4 episodes
2006–2009	Brothers & Sisters	Julia Walker Julia Walker Julia Ridge is a fictional character on the primetime show Brothers & Sisters. She is played by actress Sarah Jane Morris.-Background:Julia was the only child of Ben and Beth Ridge. She eventually met and married Thomas Walker....	65 episodes
2008	Law & Order: Criminal Intent Law & Order: Criminal Intent Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30, 2001, as the second spin-off of Wolf's successful crime drama...	Marla Reynolds	Episode: Kissinger Please Note We Are No Longer Accepting Letters of Recommendation from Henry Kissinger "Please Note We Are No Longer Accepting Letters of Recommendation from Henry Kissinger" is a seventh season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. The episode first aired on July 6, 2008...
2009	Ghost Whisperer Ghost Whisperer Ghost Whisperer is an American television supernatural drama, which ran on CBS from September 23, 2005 to May 21, 2010.The series follows the life of Melinda Gordon , who has the ability to see and communicate with ghosts...	Caroline Mayhew	Episode: Head Over Heels
2011-	NCIS NCIS (TV series) NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S...	Special Agent Erica "E.J." Jane Barrett	Five Episodes (Season 8) Episodes TBA (Season 9)

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