Brittany Murphy
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Atlanta, Georgia
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 dat
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Something Wicked |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Deadline |
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— | 2012 |
33% | Top Priority: The Terror Within |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Abandoned |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Across The Hall |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Megafault |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Tribute |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | The Ramen Girl |
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— | 2008 |
76% | The Dead Girl |
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— | 2006 |
76% | Happy Feet |
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$197.8M | 2006 |
20% | Love and Other Disasters |
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— | 2006 |
52% | The Groomsmen |
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— | 2006 |
14% | Neverwas |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | I'm Still Here |
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— | 2005 |
77% | Sin City |
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— | 2005 |
22% | Little Black Book |
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$20.5M | 2004 |
44% | Good Boy! |
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$37.6M | 2003 |
13% | Uptown Girls |
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$37M | 2003 |
37% | Spun |
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$0.3M | 2003 |
20% | Just Married |
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$56M | 2003 |
75% | 8 Mile |
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$116.7M | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Drive |
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— | 2002 |
56% | Sidewalks of New York |
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$2.2M | 2001 |
49% | Riding in Cars With Boys |
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$29.7M | 2001 |
24% | Don't Say a Word |
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$54.3M | 2001 |
8% | Summer Catch |
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$19.1M | 2001 |
59% | Cherry Falls |
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— | 2000 |
28% | Trixie |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Common Ground |
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— | 2000 |
53% | Girl, Interrupted |
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— | 1999 |
46% | Drop Dead Gorgeous |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | The Devil's Arithmetic |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | David y Lisa |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Zack and Reba |
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— | 1998 |
50% | Phoenix |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Drive |
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— | 1998 |
17% | Bongwater |
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— | 1998 |
33% | The Prophecy II |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Falling Sky |
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— | 1998 |
77% | Freeway |
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— | 1996 |
81% | Clueless |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Family Prayers |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | The Prophecy 2: Ashtown |
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TV
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King of the Hill
1997-2010
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93% |
Futurama
1999-2013
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No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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No Score Yet |
Saturday Night Live
1975
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No Score Yet |
Boy Meets World
1993-2000
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93% |
Frasier
1993-2004
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No Score Yet |
Party of Five
1994-2000
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70% |
The Torkelsons
1991-1993
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14% |
Drexell's Class
1991-1992
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No Score Yet |
Murphy Brown
1988-2019
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No Score Yet |
Almost Home
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Quotes from Brittany Murphy's Characters
Alex: | Are you askin' me out for a date, Jimmy Smith Jr. |
Jimmy Smith Jr. AKA Rabbit: | Well, a matter of fact, as I am?. |
Jimmy Smith Jr. AKA Rabbit: | Well, a matter of fact, as I am? |
Alex: | Why don't you take me somewhere now?. |
Alex: | Why don't you take me somewhere now? |
Josh: | Be seeing you. |
Tai: | Yeah, I hope not sporadically. |
Roma Schleine: | Kids and grown ups can't be friends. |
Molly Gunn: | I don't see any grown ups here. |
Ray Schleine: | Every grown-up is good at something. Oh, my bad. I don't see any grown-ups around here. |
Molly Gunn: | What's so great about being a grown-up anyway? So I can turn out like you? |
Stacy: | "Life's funny like that, once we let go of the wheel, you might end up right where you belong" |
Stacy: | Life's funny like that, once we let go of the wheel, you might end up right where you belong. |
Cher Horowitz: | No, she's a full-on Monet. |
Tai: | What's a Monet? |
Cher Horowitz: | It's like a painting, see? From far away, it's okay, but up close it's a big old mess. |
Nelly: | 3, 2, 1... BLAST OFF! |
Nelly: | I'm not shaking because I'm nervous. I'm shaking because I'm excited. |
Alex: | Why did you take off?. |
Alex: | Why did you take off? |
Jimmy Smith Jr. AKA Rabbit: | I don't live here?. |
Jimmy Smith Jr. AKA Rabbit: | I don't really live here. |
Alex: | So why did you take off?. |
Alex: | So? Why did you take off? |
Sarah: | Tom u r acting crazy |
Sarah: | Tom you are acting crazy. |
Tom Leezak: | Maybe coz i just got hit in the head by a 10 pound ashtray |
Tom Leezak: | Well, maybe it's cuz I just got hit in the head with a ten pound ASHTRAY! |
Sarah: | Baby,just floor it |
Sarah: | Baby, just floor it. |
Tom Leezak: | I am flooring it...if i push any harder my foot would blow through the floor and we would be flinstoning our asses there |
Tom Leezak: | I am flooring it. If i push any harder my foot would blow through the floor and we would be flinstoning our asses there. |
Tom Leezak: | I am flooring it. If i push any harder my foot would blow through the floor and we would be Flinstoning our asses there. |
Tai: | You're a virgin who can't drive. |