Morris Purdee was raised by single mother Nancy Kopplin Morris throughout the midwestern United States. She became a member of the first graduating class of Columbine High School, graduating early. She studied early childhood education in college.
Personal life
In her late teens she married Nathan Purdee. The two supported themselves through college by working as bounty hunters in Denver, Colorado. They eventually moved to Los Angeles so that Purdee could pursue a career as an actor. The two divorced in the 1980s, but remarried in 1991 and moved to New York City to begin Purdee's tenure on One Life to Live and raise their newborn son Taylor A. Purdee. As of 2019 she resides in Pennsylvania with her husband.[1]
While continuing to work with Grant and husband Joseph Feury she began producing films, and eventually opened her own production company with her husband Nathan Purdee. The two groups worked together on a number of documentaries and narrative films for HBO, Lifetime, PBS, and Disney.
Morris Purdee teamed up again with Feury/Grant in the early 2000s to produce "...A Father...A Son...Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", the story of the Douglas Hollywood dynasty begun by Kirk Douglas, and the groundbreaking Baghdad ER for HBO, which went on to win 4 Emmys, a Peabody, and the Dupont-Columbia.[6][7]
In 2011 she began working more closely with son Taylor A. Purdee. The two have produced two feature length films together: the documentary This is Honduras, and the musical filmKillian & the Comeback Kids, which stars both Taylor and Nathan Purdee, as well as a number of specials, shorts, and re-releases. The features, both directed by Taylor, were expected to be released theatrically in 2020.[10][11]