Ruth Morris [is] the body double for a key, one-armed character in [a new film, 'True Grit',] the Coens' version of the classic Charles Portis novel about flinty 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), who hires crusty U.S. Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) to track down her father's killer.Warm and outgoing, Morris was born with only one arm in a car in Houston 29 years ago. She was doing social work at Advanced Arm Dynamics in Irving when a nationwide casting call went out for a woman of about her height and body type with a missing left upper limb.Now studying for a doctorate at the University of Texas School of Public Health in San Antonio, Morris had done some stage work and was on the dance team at San Marcos High School.
From the web: http://www.austin360.com/recreation/ruth-morris-a-social-worker-who-helps-amputees-292398.html
My comment: Great to see the flexibility and range of skills that social workers can put to good use.
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