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Murphy first came to the attention of film audiences when she starred
as Tai, one of Alicia Silverstone's airhead friends in the 1995 comedy
Clueless. After making her name as this dim bulb character, Murphy
went on to prove that she was anything but clueless with a number
of television and film roles that gave expression to the scope of
her talent and versatility. Born in Atlanta on November 10, 1977,
Murphy was raised by her mother in Edison, New Jersey.
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 role, on the
sitcom Blossom. She then went on to a lead on the short-lived sitcom Drexell's
Class in 1991, and the following year she made her film debut in the dysfunctional
family drama Family Prayers. Murphy's talent for portraying all sorts of dysfunction
was further exhibited in such films as Clueless; the Reese Witherspoon trailer
trash odyssey Freeway (1996); and the made-for-TV David and Lisa (1998). Murphy
won particular acclaim for her work in the last film; the story of two emotionally
troubled teens (Murphy and Lukas Haas) who reach out to each other allowed the
actress to prove herself in a purely dramatic role.
In 1999, Murphy could again be seen portraying an emotionally damaged character
in Girl,Interrupted, in which she played a patient at a mental institution. That
same year, she explored the collective insanity of the beauty pageant world in
Drop Dead Gorgeous, playing a pageant contestant who'd rather be living it up
in New York with her cross-dressing brother. On the small screen that year, she
switched to much darker fare with the Holocaust drama The Devil's Arithmetic.
In addition to the praise she has received for her film portrayals, Murphy has
won a different sort of acclaim for the work she has done on the animated TV
series King of the Hill. As the voice of the Hills' beauty school sex kitten
niece Luanne, the actress earned the kind of recognition that can only come from
an animated character who was named one of the sexiest women on television by
a major men's magazine.Brittany
Murphy Nude Gallery
Actress - filmography
(In Production) (2000s) (1990s)
Happy Feet (2006) (filming) (voice) .... Gloria
Little Black Book (2004) (filming) .... Stacy
Good Boy! (2003) (voice) .... Nelly
Uptown Girls (2003) .... Molly
Just Married (2003) .... Sarah McNerney
... aka Voll verheiratet (2003) (Germany)
8 Mile (2002) .... Alex
Spun (2002) .... Nikki
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) .... Fay Hope Forrester
Don't Say a Word (2001) .... Elisabeth Burrows
Summer Catch (2001) .... Dede Mulligan
Sidewalks of New York (2001) .... Ashley
Audition, The (2000) .... Daniella
Cherry Falls (2000) .... Jody Marken
Angels! (2000) .... Nurse Bellows
Trixie (2000) .... Ruby Pearli
Common Ground (2000) (TV) .... Dorothy Nelson
Girl, Interrupted (1999) .... Daisy Randone
... aka Durchgeknallt (2000) (Germany)
... aka Durchgeknallt - Girl, interrupted (2000) (Germany: TV title)
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999/I) .... Lisa Swenson
... aka Gnadenlos schön (1999) (Germany)
Devil's Arithmetic, The (1999) (TV) .... Rivkah
Falling Sky (1998) .... Emily Nicholson
David and Lisa (1998) (TV) .... Lisa
... aka Oprah Winfrey Presents: David and Lisa (1998) (TV) (USA: complete title)
Zack and Reba (1998) .... Reba Simpson
Phoenix (1998) .... Veronica
Bongwater (1998) .... Mary
Prophecy II, The (1998) (V) .... Izzy
... aka God's Army II (1998) (V) (Europe: English title)
Drive (1997) .... Deliverance Bodine
" Pepper Ann" (1997) TV Series (voice) .... Tank the 8th grader
... aka "Disney's Pepper Ann" (1997)
" King of the Hill" (1997) TV Series (voice) .... Luanne Platter, Joseph
Gribble (Age 12)
Freeway (1996) .... Rhonda
Double Jeopardy (1996) (TV) .... Julia Marie Neuland
... aka Victim of the Night (1996) (TV) (USA: cable TV title)
Clueless (1995) .... Tai Fraiser
... aka I Was a Teenage Teenager (1995)
... aka No Worries (1995)
" Sister, Sister" (1994) TV Series .... Sarah (1994-1995)
Family Prayers (1993) .... Elise
" Almost Home" (1993) TV Series .... Molly Morgan
... aka "Torkelsons: Almost Home, The" (1993)
" Drexell's Class" (1991) TV Series .... Brenda Drexell
Herself - filmography
Making of '8 Mile' (2003) (V) (uncredited) .... Herself
Reel Comedy: Just Married (2003) (TV) .... Herself
MTV Video Music Awards 2002 (2002) (TV) (Presenter) .... Herself
... aka VMAs 2002 (2002) (TV) (USA: short title)
2002 MTV Movie Awards (2002) (TV) .... Presenter
Clueless: The E! True Hollywood Story (2001) (TV) (archive footage) .... Herself
Notable TV Guest Appearances
"Diary" (2000) playing "Herself" in episode: "Brittany
Murphy: Breaking Murphy's Law" 9 August 2003
" Diary" (2000) playing "Herself" in episode: "Ashton
Kutcher" 6 January 2003
" Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The" (1992) playing "Herself" 2
January 2003
" Saturday Night Live" (1975) playing "Host" (episode # 28.6)
16 November 2002
" Clueless" (1996) playing "Jasmine" in episode: "Driving
Me Crazy" (episode # 1.10) 22 November 1996
" Nash Bridges" (1996) playing "Carrie" in episode: "Night
Train" (episode # 2.7) 25 October 1996
" SeaQuest DSV" (1993) playing "Christine VanCamp" in episode: "Second
Chance" (episode # 3.10) 27 December 1995
" Marshal, The" (1995) playing "Lizzie Roth" in episode: "These
Foolish Things" (episode # 2.11) 11 December 1995
" Boy Meets World" (1993) playing "Trini" in episode: "The
Last Temptation of Cory" (episode # 3.9) 1 December 1995
" Murder One" (1995) playing "Diane 'Dee-Dee' Carson" in
episode: "Chapter Nine" (episode # 1.9) 23 November 1995
" Boy Meets World" (1993) playing "Trini" in episode: "My
Best Friend's Girl" (episode # 3.1) 22 September 1995
" Sister, Sister" (1994) playing "Sarah" in episode: "Smoking
in the Girls' Room" (episode # 2.16) 31 March 1995
" Party of Five" (1994) playing "Abby" in episode: "Good
Sports" (episode # 1.3) 26 September 1994
" Party of Five" (1994) playing "Abby" in episode: "Homework" (episode
# 1.2) 19 September 1994
" Sister, Sister" (1994) playing "Sarah" in episode: "The
Concert" (episode # 1.12) 6 September 1994
" Sister, Sister" (1994) playing "Sarah" in episode: "The
Birthday" (episode # 1.9) 28 June 1994
" Sister, Sister" (1994) playing "Sarah" in episode: "Cheater,
Cheater" (episode # 1.4) 15 April 1994
" Sister, Sister" (1994) playing "Sarah" in episode: "Slumber
Party" (episode # 1.3) 8 April 1994
" Sister, Sister" (1994) playing "Sarah" in episode: "First
Dates" (episode # 1.2) 1 April 1994
" Frasier" (1993) playing "Olsen" in episode: "Give
Him the Chair!" (episode # 1.19) 17 March 1994
" Blossom" (1991) playing "Wendy" in episode: "Blossom
in Paris: Part 1" (episode # 4.1) 19 September 1993
" Blossom" (1991) playing "Wendy" in episode: "Blossom
in Paris: Part 2" (episode # 4.2) 19 September 1993
" Blossom" (1991) playing "Wendy" in episode: "Blossom
in Paris: Part 3" (episode # 4.3) 19 September 1993
" Blossom" (1991) playing "Wendy" in episode: "Blossom
in Paris: Part 4" (episode # 4.4) 19 September 1993
" Parker Lewis Can't Lose" (1990) in episode: "The Kiss" (episode
# 3.3) 30 July 1992
" Murphy Brown" (1988) playing "Frank's Sister" in episode: "On
Another Plane: Part 1" (episode # 3.18) 25 February 1991
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