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Brittany Murphy
Birth Place: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Date of Birth: November 10th, 1977
Famous for: Just Married, 8 Mile, Clueless
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Brittany 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, Brittany 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. Cast opposite
Eminem in director Curtis Hanson's 2002 drama 8 Mile,
Murphy provided a compelling performance as an aspiring
rap star's unapologetic muse before starting 2003 on a
lighter note with the comedy Just Married.
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.
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