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Brittany Murphy, born November 10, 1977, in Atlanta, GA, landed her first ongoing television role when she was 13 years old, playing Wendy in the sitcom, Blossom. She went on to act in Sister, Sister, Party of Five, Boy Meets World, and Nash Bridges, among other shows. Her screen credits include, Clueless, Drive, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Girl, Interrupted, Don't Say a Word, and Riding in Cars With Boys, and she had four new movies out in 2003. Murphy also provides the voice for sex-kitten Luanne, in the animated Fox series, King of the Hill.

Last updated: June 16, 2004.

 
 
Who2 Biography: Brittany Murphy, Actor

  • Born: 10 November 1977
  • Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia
  • Best Known As: Eminem's girlfriend in the 2002 film 8 Mile

Actress Brittany Murphy has made a Hollywood specialty of playing rough-around-the-edges chums and lovers. After guest starring roles in TV series like Blossom and Party of Five, she made her feature film debut in Clueless (1995) as Tai, the low-rent ugly duckling befriended by Alicia Silverstone's sleek Cher. Murphy won good reviews as Daisy, Winona Ryder's suicidal fellow mental patient in Girl, Interrupted (1999). She followed that with supporting roles in a string of "chick flicks" including Sidewalks of New York (2001) and Riding In Cars With Boys (2002, with Drew Barrymore). Murphy gradually remade herself from dowdy brunette to sultry blonde: she played Eminem's fame-hungry girlfriend in 8 Mile, the 2002 film inspired by the rapper's life, and the waitress Shellie in the violent comic book drama Sin City (2005, with Bruce Willis). Murphy also provides the voice of Luanne in the long-running animated series King of the Hill.

Murphy became engaged to film crew electrician Joe Macaluso in December of 2005; they split in August of 2006. She had previously been engaged to Jeff Kwatinetz, CEO of the talent management company The Firm... Murphy will reportedly be the voice of the fairy Tinkerbell in the 2007 Disney film Tinkerbell and the Ring of Belief... She provided vocals on Paul Oakenfold's single Faster Kill Pussycat, a dance club hit in 2006.

 
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Brittany Murphy

  • Born: Nov 10, 1977
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '90s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: Clueless, Girl, Interrupted, Drop Dead Gorgeous
  • First Major Screen Credit: Clueless (1995)

Biography

Brittany Murphy first came to the attention of film audiences as Tai, one of Alicia Silverstone's airhead friends, in the 1995 comedy Clueless. Though convincing as a dim-bulb character, Murphy cuts dramatically against this grain off-camera, as a ferociously intelligent and ambitious young performer who had acting in her blood from early childhood. As a teenager and young adult, she gave expression to the scope of her talent and versatility with a series of engaging film and television roles.

Born in Atlanta on November 10, 1977, Murphy was raised by her single mother in Edison, New Jersey; she later indicated, in interviews, that her mom struggled financially - that they were forced to eat spaghetti night after night, and that on certain occasions, she had to beg her mother to buy clothes at KMart; this would later account for Murphy's marked social investment in homeless causes, as discussed in a February 2003 Glamour article.

A precocious child who began putting on shows when she was a toddler, Murphy was acting in regional theatre productions by the age of nine. Work in various commercials followed, and in 1990 she landed her first television appearance at the age of twelve, on the sitcom Blossom. She also secured a supporting role as Brenda Drexell, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Dabney Coleman's fifth grade teacher Otis Drexell, on the (mercifully) short-lived 1991 FOX sitcom Drexell's Class. The following year, Murphy took her first cinematic bow in the dysfunctional family drama Family Prayers.

Murphy's talent for portraying, dramatically, all degrees on the spectrum of behavioral dysfunction further came to light in three successive projects through 1999: the blackly comic Reese Witherspoon trailer trash odyssey Freeway (1996) (as a disfigured lesbian who befriends Witherspoon's Vanessa); a mental patient in Lloyd Kramer's made-for-TV David and Lisa (1998), and James Mangold's Girl, Interrupted (1999) (as yet another resident at a mental institution).

Meanwhile, on a less ambitious (albeit more whimsical) note, Murphy also became a fixtureon King of the Hill, Mike Judge's long-running contemporary cartoon of suburban life in the southern U.S., as Luanne Platter, the hair stylist niece who comes to live with Hank Hill's family. Murphy kept a full plate as the millennium wrapped. In addition to her work for Mangold in 1999,

she also explored the collective insanity of the beauty pageant world in Drop Dead Gorgeous, while on the small screen, she covered much darker thematic ground with the well-received Holocaust drama The Devil's Arithmetic (also 1999). In 2001, Murphy appeared in the Michael Douglas thriller Don't Say a Word, and alongside Drew Barrymore in Riding in Cars With Boys.

Cast opposite Eminem in director Curtis Hanson's 2002 drama 8 Mile, Murphy performed compellingly as an aspiring rap star's unapologetic muse; in 2004, Murphy headlined Nick Hurran's thoroughly disappointing rom-com Little Black Book. She also made a splash in Robert Rodriguez's innovative graphic novel adaptation Sin City, as the arrogant waitress who becomes the prize in a heated rivalry between Benicio del Toro and Clive Owen.

Murphy made appearances in four features in 2006. In Alex Keshishian's progressive romantic comedy Love and Other Disasters, she played a London-based American expatriate, employed at Vogue, who tries to fix up her gay roommate; in Ed Burns's sixth directorial outing, the Big Chill-like romantic comedy The Groomsmen, she played the expectant girlfriend of Burns's Paulie. She also portrayed a member of the ensemble in Karen Moncrieff's murder mystery The Dead Girl, about a group of seemingly disconnected individuals whose lives intersect as a girl's murderer comes to light, and one of the lead voices in George "Babe" Miller's Happy Feet, an animated penguin tale.

Murphy's appearance alongside Ashton Kutcher in Just Married was - to some degree - a case of art imitating life: offscreen, Murphy and Kutcher began to date as well (and became a hot tabloid item), though unlike their onscreen counterparts, they never wed. ~ Rebecca Flint, All Movie Guide

 
Wikipedia: Brittany Murphy
Brittany Murphy
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Murphy at the December 2006 Australian premiere of Happy Feet
Birth name Brittany Anne Bertolotti
Born November 10 1977 (1977--) (age 29)
Flag of Georgia (U.S. state) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.

Brittany Murphy (born Brittany Anne Bertolotti on November 10, 1977) is an American actress and recording artist. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the Hollywood films such as Clueless, Girl, Interrupted, 8 Mile, Sin City, The Dead Girl, and Happy Feet, which have all been box office and critical successes.

Biography

Early life

Murphy was born in Atlanta, Georgia to Angelo Bertolotti, an Italian American, and Sharon (Murphy), who is of Irish and Eastern European descent.[1][2][3][4] Murphy's parents divorced shortly after her birth, and she was raised in Edison, New Jersey (she graduated from Edison High School) and Burbank, California by her single, working-class mother; she has had little contact with her father, who later served time for racketeering, since the divorce. Murphy was raised a Baptist and attended a Lutheran school, but is now a non-denominational practicing Christian.[5][6]

When she was nine years old, Murphy landed a singing role in a musical version of Les Misérables, and had signed on with a manager by the time she turned thirteen.

Acting

Murphy landed her first job in Hollywood when she was fourteen, starring as Brenda Drexell in the television series Drexell's Class. She then went on to play Molly Morgan in the short lived The Torkelsons spinoff Almost Home. She was also the lead singer of the band Blessed With Soul in the early 1990s, and was at one time signed on to play late singer Janis Joplin in a biography, but the film was not made because of legal disputes over music rights.

Murphy has since starred in many successful films, including Clueless (1995), Girl, Interrupted (1999), Don't Say a Word (2001), 8 Mile (2002) and Uptown Girls (2003) as well as many lesser known films, such as Spun (2003). She has also appeared on several television series, including Sister, Sister, Boy Meets World and as the voice of Luanne Platter on the long-running animated series King of the Hill.

She most recently appeared in the films Little Black Book (2004), which was considered a critical and commercial failure, and the critically acclaimed Sin City (2005). Also in 2005, she appeared in the promo video for Tears for Fears' comeback single Closest Thing To Heaven, and in August, Brittany co-presented UK music show CD:UK alongside Holly Willoughby.

Murphy is also filming five other films. She will star in The Ramen Girl. The Other Side, and The White Hotel; she has a voice role for the animated character Tinkerbell in an upcoming Disney movie, and she is reprising her role as Shellie in Sin City 2.

Music

In the Spring of 2006, Paul Oakenfold along with Brittany Murphy released the single "Faster Kill Pussycat", with the album A Lively Mind which was released on June 6 in the United States. The song has become a club hit, and hit number one on Billboard magazine's Hot Dance Club Play chart. It also hit number seven in the UK singles chart in June 2006. She dabbled in music again with the release of her movie Happy Feet, in which she covered Queen's classic "Somebody to Love" and Earth, Wind & Fire's "Boogie Wonderland".

Brittany is currently working on her debut album, which is inspired by techno-pop sound. The album will be released in 2007. She is working with various producers and DJs including with Paul Oakenfold, Chris Cox, Max Martin and Timbaland.

Personal life

Actor Jonathan Brandis was Murphy's high school prom date. Once engaged to talent manager Jeff Kwatinetz[1], in December 2005, Murphy became engaged to Joe Macaluso, a production assistant she met while working on her film, Little Black Book. In August 2006, they ended their engagement. In May 2007, Murphy married screenwriter Simon Monjack in a private Jewish ceremony officiated by a rabbi.[7]

Murphy's weight loss and transformation over the years caused speculation of an eating disorder or plastic surgery, both of which she has denied.[citation needed] During 2005, Murphy was the spokesmodel for Jordache jeans.

In 2006, Brittany Murphy was voted 36th in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women List, 29th in Celebrity Sleuths 25 Sexiest List and in May of the same year, Maxim magazine named Murphy #49 on its annual Hot 100 List.

Her mother, Sharon was diagnosed as having breast cancer, when Brittany was 15. She survived by having a double mastectomy.[8]

Filmography

Year Title Role
1995 Clueless Tai Fraiser
Victim of the Night Julia Newland
1996 Freeway Rhonda
1997 Drive Deliverance Bodine
Bongwater
1998 David and Lisa Lisa
The Prophecy II Izzy
Falling Sky Emily Nicholson
1999 Girl, Interrupted Daisy Randone
Drop Dead Gorgeous Lisa Swensen
The Devil's Arithmetic Rivka
2000 Cherry Falls Jody Marken
Common Ground Dorothy Nelson
2001 Sidewalks of New York Ashley
Don't Say a Word Elisabeth Burrows
Riding in Cars with Boys Fay Forrester
Summer Catch Dede Mulligan
2002 8 Mile Alex
2003 Uptown Girls Molly Gunn
Spun Nikki
Just Married Sarah McNerney
2004 Little Black Book Stacy
2005 Sin City Shellie
2006 Love and Other Disasters Jacks
Happy Feet Gloria (voice)
The Groomsmen Sue
The Dead Girl Krista
2007 The Ramen Girl Abby
2008 Tinker Bell Tinker Bell (voice)
2009 The White Hotel Tinkerbell (voice)
Sin City 2 Shellie

Discography

Year Title Chart positions
U.K U.S. Dance NZ AUS
2006 "Faster Kill Pussycat"
(Oakenfold featuring Brittany Murphy)
7
1
19
44

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