Name: Brittany Murphy
Birth Name: Brittany Anne Murphy
Birthdate: Nov. 10, 1977
Birthplace: Atlanta, Ga.
1-MINUTE RESUME FOR BRITTANY MURPHY
Her parents divorced when she was very young; her mother raised the
actress in New Jersey, and by age 9 she was doing regional theater.
With a chaperone, she moved to L.A. at age 13, landing a part on TV's
Blossom and her breakthrough role as Alicia Silverstone's sidekick in 1995's
Clueless. She dismissed the cutesy route (most of the time) and went for edgier stuff: Eminem's trashy galpal in
8 Mile, a meth-head in
Spun, a loonybin nutjob in
Girl, Interrupted and waitress Shellie in
Sin City.
5 Things:
1. She says that Eminem taught her the right way to give "the finger" while making 8 Mile It took her 17 takes to get it right.
2. She's been living with her mother since May 2005.
3. She's broken her nose three times: in a car accident, doing a
handstand in a Jacuzzi and bumping heads with her mother when they were
about to kiss each other goodnight.
4. She and her ex-beau, Ashton Kutcher, bought matching rings and spoke to each other in fake Italian while filming Just Married in Venice, Italy.
5. By age 26, she'd made 28 movies.
Quote:
On the rumors about her: "I don't have an eating disorder, and I never
did. And while we're at it, I'm not a drug addict nor an alcoholic, and
the only time I ever got drunk enough to vomit, it was because I
couldn't stand the taste of the tonic water in whatever I was drinking."
—
Esquire, Mar. 2004
Family:
Fiancé: Joe Macaluso, production assistant grip; engaged Dec. 2005
FILMS
Happy Feet - (2006) - Voice
The Groomsmen - (2006) - Actor
The Dead Girl - (2006) - Actor
King of the Hill Season 1-3 - (2005) - Voice
Sin City - (2005) - Actor
Little Black Book - (2004) - Actor
King of the Hill - Season 6 - (2004) - Voice
King of the Hill - Season 3 - (2004) - Voice
King of the Hill - Season 4 - (2004) - Voice
Just Married - (2003) - Actor
Just Married/There's Something About Mary - (2003) - Actor
Good Boy! - (2003) - Voice
Le Divorce/Just Married - (2003) - Actor
Spun - (2003) - Actor
Uptown Girls - (2003) - Actor
8 Mile - (2002) - Actor
8 Mile/Empire - (2002) - Actor
King of the Hill - Season 5 - (2002) - Voice
Summer Catch - (2001) - Actor
Riding in Cars With Boys - (2001) - Actor
Don't Say a Word - (2001) - Actor
Cherry Falls - (2000) - Actor
Cherry Falls/ Terror Tract - (2000) - Actor
Common Ground - (2000) - Actor
Trixie - (2000) - Actor
Girl, Interrupted - (1999) - Actor
The Devil's Arithmetic - (1999) - Actor
Phoenix - (1998) - Actor
Zack and Reba - (1998) - Actor
Falling Sky - (1998) - Actor
King of the Hill - Season 2 - (1998) - Voice
The Prophecy 2: Ashtown - (1997) - Actor
Bongwater - (1997) - Actor
King of the Hill - Season 1 - (1997) - Voice
Drive - (1996) - Actor
Clueless - (1995) - Actor
