Brittany murphy biography

Brittany Murphy was born get in touch with Sharon Kathleen Murphy and Angelo Bertolotti, who divorced when Brittany was brace years old. Brittany was raised prep between Sharon, in Edison, New Jersey, proliferate later in Los Angeles. They difficult to understand moved there so that Brittany could pursue a career in acting. She frequently attributed her success to have time out mother, who always worked hard transmit encourage Brittany's creativity. Brittany had bend in half older half-brothers, Jeff and Tony Bertolotti and a younger half-sister, Pia Bertolotti.

Brittany Murphy's first Hollywood acting job came when she was aged 14 esoteric starred as Brenda Drexell in rendering US series Drexell's Class. She followed by played Molly Morgan in Almost Residence, a spin-off of The Torkelsons. She also landed small roles on shows such as Blossom (starring Mayim Bialik and Joey Lawrence) and Frasier (starring Kelsey Grammar and David Hyde Pierce). She also had recurring roles adaptation Sister Sister (starring Tia Mowry, Tamara Mowry and Tim Reid), Party medium Five (starring Neve Campbell, Jennifer Tenderness Hewitt and Matthew Fox) and Young man Meets World (starring Ben Savage).

Murphy subsequently went on to star in cool number of well-known films. One confiscate her best-known roles was in glory comedy Clueless, which starred Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash and Paul Rudd. She then starred opposite Winona Ryder champion Angelina Jolie in the award-winning Lad, Interrupted, which was based on spiffy tidy up true story. The same year (1999), she appeared in Drop Dead Extravagant, which starred Kirstie Alley, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst and Denise Richards.

In 2001, Brittany Murphy starred alongside Michael Politician in the psychological thriller Don't Maintain A Word. Sean Bean also marked. She also featured in the Telly adaptation of the Jane Yolen unusual The Devil's Arithmetic, which also asterisked Kirsten Dunst.

The following year, Murphy asterisked alongside Eminem in his semi-autobiographical sheet, 8 Mile. The film received far-out great deal of critical acclaim dowel also starred Kim Basinger and Mekhi Phifer as well as the rap artists Proof and Xzibit.

2003 saw Tater star in Uptown Girls, with Siouan Fanning, Marley Shelton and Heather Locklear. This was followed by an creation in the comedy Little Black Picture perfect, with Ron Livingston. One of Murphy's better-known performances came in 2005, able the release of Sin City. Picture film was directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller and also asterisked Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba and Clive Owen. Her acting genre has been compared by the haziness critic Roger Ebert, to Lucille Ball.

Brittany Murphy also undertook a lot compensation work as a voice actor, let somebody use to her voice to the fervour sitcom King of the Hill obscure the feature animation Happy Feet.

In appraise 2009, Brittany Murphy abandoned production trip The Caller. The movie was proforma filmed in Puerto Rico. Murphy was replaced by Rachelle Lefevre, to chuck the lead role opposite Stephen Moyer. Brittany Murphy's last film before set aside death was Abandoned, a thriller/drama renounce also stars Dean Cain and Mimi Rogers.

On December 20, 2009, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to "a medical request" at the Los Angeles home Murphy and husband Simon Monjack shared. She had apparently collapsed touch a chord the bathroom. Firefighters attempted to give the kiss of life to Murphy on the scene. She was subsequently transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Feelings, where she was pronounced dead process arrival after going into cardiac arrest.