On June 6, 2006, Murphy and Paul Oakenfold released the single "Faster Kill Pussycat," from the album A Lively Mind. She was in a band called Blessed Soul with fellow actor Eric Balfour in the early 1990s. Murphy performing for the crew during a United Services Organization show aboard USS Nimitz in 2003. There were reports that she was "fired from one movie" and that her recent career had been "marked by trouble" and that she had been "addled while shooting another" film. Murphy denied media reports that she had been fired from the project after being difficult on the set, and cited "creative differences". In November 2009, Murphy left the production of The Caller, which was being filmed in Puerto Rico, and was replaced by Rachelle Lefevre. The film is scheduled for release in 2010. Murphy completed her last film, the thriller/drama Abandoned, in June 2009. Luanne will be a shining legacy for an actress with a comic gift and a tragic fate. She was nominated for an Annie Award for voice acting in the King of the Hill episode "Movin' On Up." Corliss described Murphy's talent as a voice actor:Ī dizzy blond with a knack for disastrous relationships, Luanne busted out of stereotype thanks to the deep-throated Texas texture Murphy provided for the character, and her vocal ability to switch in a trice from humor to pathos as Luanne's inane enthusiasms would explode into fortissimo fears. She also did the voice of Gloria the penguin in the 2006 feature Happy Feet. Time reporter Richard Corliss described her as a "hot property" regarding the "specialized field of voice work for cartoons." She did the voice role of character Luanne Platter on the animated sitcom King of the Hill for the entirety of the show's run beginning in 1997. Murphy was a critically acclaimed voice actor. She was set to appear in the Sylvester Stallone film, The Expendables, which will be released in 2010.
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In 2009, she was cast in the TV movie, Tribute, as the main character, Cilla. Film critic Roger Ebert gave positive reviews and compared her to Lucille Ball. Murphy starred in many films (see filmography below). Murphy also guest-starred on several television series. She then went on to play Molly Morgan in the short-lived The Torkelsons spinoff Almost Home.
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Murphy landed her first job in Hollywood when she was 14, starring as Brenda Drexell in the series Drexell's Class. Murphy had two older half-brothers, Jeff and Tony Bertolotti, and a younger half-sister, Pia Bertolotti. She was raised a Baptist and later became a non-denominational Christian. … She always believed in me." Murphy's mother is of Irish and Eastern European descent and her father is Italian American. Murphy said her mother never tried to stifle her creativity, and she considered her mother a crucial factor in her later success: "When I asked my mom to move to California, she sold everything and moved out here for me.
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Time Magazine reported that the young Murphy persuaded her mother to move to Los Angeles so she could pursue a movie career. Her parents, Sharon Kathleen Murphy and Angelo Bertolotti, divorced when she was two years old, and Murphy was raised by her mother in Edison, New Jersey, where she attended Edison High School, the same high school actress Susan Sarandon attended. Her final film Something Wicked was released posthumously in early 2013.īrittany Anne Murphy was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 10, 1977. Murphy had no children, although there was a report in the Huffington Post claiming that Murphy had "wanted to become a mother soon." The in-demand actress had hit film vehicles such as Clueless and Riding in Cars with Boys as well as doing voice-over work and starring in numerous television shows. A report in BBC News suggested that the actress could have survived "if she had seen a doctor in time". Murphy's husband Simon Monjack and Murphy's mother claimed that the actress had been experiencing "flu-like symptoms" days before she collapsed in her home in the Hollywood Hills. However, there were findings that anemia and prescription drugs may have played a role in the death of the actor who once starred in films such as Drop Dead Gorgeous, Girl, Interrupted and Deadline, leaving some questions unanswered. Murphy's death was ruled to be an accident by a Los Angeles coroner and was primarily caused by pneumonia.
The talented singer and actress entertained troops aboard an aircraft carrier in 2003.īrittany Anne Murphy-Monjack (November 10, 1977 – December 20, 2009), known professionally as Brittany Murphy, was an American actress and singer who died at age 32.
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