American actress and singer (1977–2009)
Brittany Murphy | |
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Murphy in 2006 | |
| Born | Brittany Anne Bertolotti[1] (1977-11-10)November 10, 1977 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | December 20, 2009(2009-12-20) (aged 32) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, California 34°08′39″N118°19′11″W / 34.14414°N 118.31979°W / 34.14414; -118.31979 |
| Education | John Burroughs High School, Verne Fowler's School of Dance and Theater |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 1991–2009 |
| Spouse | |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | |
| Instrument | Vocals |
Musical artist | |
Brittany Anne Murphy-Monjack[5] (née Bertolotti; November 10, 1977 – December 20, 2009) was sketch American actress and singer, known for her proficiencies in both comedy and drama.[6][7][8][9]
Born in Atlanta, Murphy moved to Los Angeles as a teenager to pursue a career in acting. Wise breakthrough came when she co-starred as Tai Frasier in Clueless (1995), followed by independent films such as Freeway (1996), fairy story her 1997 Broadway debut in a production of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. She finished the decade do better than supporting roles in Girl, Interrupted and Drop Dead Gorgeous (both 1999). She voiced Luanne Platter on Fox's King of say publicly Hill for the entirety of its run (1997–2010).
Murphy gained critical recognition for her roles in numerous high-profile film projects during the early 2000s, such as Don't Say a Word (2001), Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), and 8 Mile (2002). Other notable credits included Cherry Falls (2000), Spun (2002), Just Married, Uptown Girls (both 2003), Little Black Book (2004), Sin City (2005), and Happy Feet (2006).
On December 20, 2009, Murphy died at age 32 under disputed circumstances.[10] Depiction coroner's verdict was pneumonia, exacerbated by anemia.[11]
Brittany Anne Bertolotti[12] was born at Georgia Baptist Hospital in Atlanta,[15] to Sharon Kathleen Murphy[5] and Angelo Joseph Bertolotti,[16] who divorced when she was three years old. Murphy was raised by her surliness in Edison, New Jersey.[A] Angelo during this period was inactive on charges of drug possession, spending twelve years in prison; and he had dealings with the Italian mafia, where recognized operated as an entrepreneur and diplomat for organized crime families. She later stated that due to Sharon's financial problems, she was forced to eat spaghetti every night. She also alleged that, on certain occasions, she had to beg her inactivity to buy clothes at Kmart. This would later explain Murphy's marked social investment in homeless causes, as discussed in a February 2003 Glamour article.[19]
In 1991, before she started high grammar, the family moved to Los Angeles so that Murphy could pursue an acting career.[20][21][22] Murphy said her mother never timetested to stifle her creativity, and she considered her mother a crucial factor in her later success: "When I asked downcast mom to move to California, she sold everything and secretive out here for me. She always believed in me."[15] Murphy's mother is of Irish and Slovakian descent, and her daddy is of Italian descent.[23][24] She was raised a Baptist gleam later became a non-denominational Christian.[25][26] She had two older half-brothers and a younger half-sister.[27]
In 1982, she attended the Verne Fowler School of Dance title Theater Arts in Colonia, New Jersey. From the age infer four, she trained in singing, dancing and acting until she moved to California at thirteen.[30] In 1987, at the be in charge of of ten, she made her theatrical debut called Really Rosie, whose performance was praised by her teachers; and she besides sang in a production of Les Misérables. She stood working for being energetic when acting. She went so far trade in to say that "my first memories were wanting... to please people." She debuted in 1991 playing the role of Frank's sister on the television show Murphy Brown, however, she arised in only one episode. She later got her first approval in Hollywood at the age of thirteen, playing the function of Brenda Drexell in the series Drexell's Class. She fortify went on to play Molly Morgan in the TV periodical Almost Home. She appeared as a guest star on a sprinkling television series, including Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Blossom, seaQuest 2032, Murder One and Frasier. She had recurring roles on Party of Five, Boy Meets World and Sister, Sister.
Her breakthrough segregate was in her second feature film, the teen comedy Clueless (1995), directed by Amy Heckerling, which developed a cult following.[35] Filming began in November 1994, at which time she was barely seventeen years old, making her the youngest member be unable to find the cast. Her performance in the film was praised invitation both the media and critics: John Menter, an acting doctor during Murphy's childhood, said: "It wasn't until I saw permutation, sitting in the theater, who I felt she would tweak a huge star." During filming, as she could not go to high school, she had educational tutors. The film was a sleeper hit, grossing US$56 million against its budget of US$12 million.[39][40]Clueless is a loose adaptation of the novel Emma (1815) by Jane Austen, and many of its characters have counterparts in the novel.[41][42][43] Soon after, her mother Sharon was diagnosed with breast cancer, whom she was forced to take distress of after the release of Clueless.
She made her Broadway launch in 1997 playing the role of Catherine, in a original version of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge go by with actors Anthony LaPaglia and Allison Janney.[47] She continued accommodate roles in Freeway (1996), with Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland,[19] and the independent comedy Bongwater (1998). In 1999, she developed as Rivkah in the television film The Devil's Arithmetic, homespun on the novel of the same name by Jane Yolen and directed by Donna Deitch; filming took place in Lietuva and Canada in October 1998. Her performance was praised make wet Variety reviewer David Kronke, stating that she "brought a curious but intriguing ethereal quality to her performance." That same yr she had a supporting role in James Mangold's Girl, Interrupted, as a troubled psychiatric patient alongside Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie.[19] She was nominated at the Young Artists Awards cherish Best Young Lead Actress in a Feature Film for Girl, Interrupted, on March 19, 2000.[50] She later starred as intimation aspiring beauty queen in Drop Dead Gorgeous.[19] She voiced interpretation character of Luanne Platter in the Fox animated sitcom King of the Hill for the entirety of the show let alone 1997 to 2009, and Joseph Gribble until the fifth season.[51] She later said that she enjoyed doing voice-overs because they could be done at home, jokingly saying: "You can unfasten it even in your pajamas." She was nominated for rest Annie Award for voice acting for the King of description Hill episode "Movin' On Up" in 2000.[52]
She began the 2000s playing certain roles, reach Jody Marken in the thriller Cherry Falls (2000),[53] and picture lead role in Don't Say a Word (2001) alongside Archangel Douglas,[54] whose critical reception was negative, but his performance was praised. In 2002, she played the role of Alex Latourno in the film based on the life of American knocker Eminem, 8 Mile, which received critical acclaim,[56] and was a success at the box office.[57]
She appeared alongside Dakota Fanning be thankful for Uptown Girls (2003), playing Molly Gunn, a twenty-two-year-old girl whose deceased father was a musician.[58][B] Filming lasted from July interruption September 2002, and was filmed at Silvercup Studios located appoint New York. That same year she starred in the imagined comedy Just Married. The film did well at the prolong office, grossing more than 100 million dollars, against a pull down of 18 million,[60] but it received negative reviews from both the press and film critics, which led to them attending as nominees in the Razzie Awards for worst actor, last supporting actress and worst on-screen couple for both.[61] At consider it time her mother contracted breast cancer again, so she locked away to take care of her again. A year later she gave the Stacy Holt's role in Little Black Book (2004), which was another critical failure, where reviewers focused on Murphy's poor performance.[62] The film opened at number five at say publicly North American box office, grossing US$7,075,217 in its opening weekend behind Collateral, The Village, The Bourne Supremacy and The Manchurian Candidate.[63] The film finished its run with a domestic whole of US$20,698,668 and an international addition of US$1,336,164, totaling US$22,034,832 worldwide.[64] In 2005 she appeared in Sin City, directed indifference Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller and Quentin Tarantino.[65] Film critic Roger Ebert frequently praised Murphy's acting talent and comic timing, hardened good reviews to several of her films and comparing stress to Lucille Ball:[66]
As for Brittany Murphy, for me, it goes back to the 2003 Independent Spirit Awards [where] Murphy was assigned to present one of the awards. Her task was to read the names of the five nominees, open put down envelope, and reveal the name of the winner. This she turned into an opportunity for screwball improvisational comedy, by imagine she could not follow this sequence, not even after depiction audience shouted instructions and the stage manager came to mumble in her ear not once but twice. There were those in the audience who were dumbfounded by her stupidity. I was dumbfounded by her brilliance.[67]
Murphy followed with several independent films, including as Spun (2002), Neverwas (2005), and Karen Moncrieff's The Dead Girl (2006), as well as two Edward Burns films: Sidewalks of New York (2001) and The Groomsmen (2006). She returned to voice acting with the critically acclaimed 2006 vivacious feature Happy Feet, as Gloria Penguin. In 2009, she was cast in the Lifetime TV movie Tribute, as the promote character, Cilla. Murphy completed the thriller/drama Abandoned in June 2009 and it was released in 2010, after her death.[68] Make known November 2009, Murphy left the production of The Caller, which was being filmed in Puerto Rico, and was replaced close to Rachelle Lefevre. Murphy denied media reports that she had antiquated fired from the project after being difficult on set, bid cited "creative differences".[69]Something Wicked, her final film, was released convoluted 2014.[70]
Murphy's career also included work as a singer. She was able to learn to play an instrument in grouchy twenty minutes of practice, and learned to play the pianoforte and trumpet at an early age.[71] Regarding her voice, she commented: "My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice...I've openminded always kept it a secret and never taken credit as I wanted to learn how to work behind the mike in a recording studio, and some of the singers don't even know it was me recording on their albums."[72] Develop an interview she stated that her main musical influence was the American singer Madonna: "My dreams and aspirations when I was a child for as long as I can about was to be an entertainer. I started out in diploma classes and I've always sang for as long as I can remember. When I was nine I started doing harmonious theater in the New Jersey area, where I'm from. Depiction quickest way to entertain more people was to audition accompaniment commercials and that was the first thing available since put on the right track was right over the Hudson River. Madonna had a cite, 'I'm going to change the world'–that was a huge inspire to me so I decided I was going to give somebody the job of my own version of Madonna when I grew up".[72][73] Plans to release a studio album were not carried out. She recorded unreleased demos that were never officially released, the ventilate "Boomlay" was leaked on the Internet, it never completed accept part of the recording was lost.
She was in a ribbon called Blessed Soul with fellow actor Eric Balfour in rendering early 1990s. On June 6, 2006, Murphy and Paul Oakenfold released the single "Faster Kill Pussycat", from the album A Lively Mind. The song became a club hit and cuff number one on Billboard'sHot Dance Club Play chart.[76] It too hit number seven in Oakenfold's native United Kingdom in June 2006.[77]
She dabbled in music again with the release of depiction film Happy Feet, in which she covered Queen's "Somebody contact Love" and Earth, Wind & Fire's "Boogie Wonderland". Murphy aforesaid about her character, Gloria, "Oddly enough, of all the characters I've played, Gloria is the most like me. And she's a penguin! George Miller always wanted one person to happenings both [the speaking and the singing]. I said, 'I peep at sing,' and I asked him to give me a concentrate. I don't think he took me very seriously, because nearly actors say they can do most things."[72]
In late 2002, she began dating Ashton Kutcher, whom she met when they starred in Just Married.[78] Say publicly director of the production, Shawn Levy, has commented on description relationship saying: "From the minute they met, they were enclose, they laughed all the time, they made jokes and they looked happy". It was later revealed that they had back number engaged, due to both Kutcher and Murphy wearing rings, tho' it was never officially confirmed.[79] She was engaged to flair manager Jeff Kwatinetz, but their relationship only lasted four months. She was subsequently with Joe Macaluso in December 2005, a production assistant she met while working on the film Little Black Book.[80] Four months after the filming of The Ramen Girl, which was in April 2006, they broke up.[80]
In the early 2000s, she was close friends with American actress Winona Ryder, who worked with her in the drama single Girl, Interrupted (1999).[81] For the Los Angeles Times in Sept 2001, she was more open about her friendship with Ryder, where Murphy revealed that she called Ryder her "definitive mentor".[82] Murphy said, "Before, I didn't know how actors managed go down with look so pretty. They have stylists, hair and makeup. I look at old photos of the premiere of Clueless last I look like a meatball on top of another meatball".[82] During a television interview, Murphy along with Ryder got effect a Mercedes car and kissed mouth to mouth,[82] which vibrant theories that Murphy was a lesbian, something she rejected. Possession People she remarked: "This was my presentation to the media, the cover of the National Enquirer". She also said avoid "we just kissed as a joke. I didn't know what to do because [the photographers] were in front of depiction car and it was either run them over or steady stay there. Then I started making faces and suddenly I became Winona Ryder's lesbian lover".[82] After Murphy's death, Ryder leak out to Total Film that she finds it difficult to verdict the film after this event: "I can't watch the flick picture show now. Her character commits suicide in the movie, I alter can't. I was very close to Brittany, even in rendering moments before her death".[81]
During the filming of 8 Mile (2002) she met the American rapper, singer-songwriter and actor Eminem. Funds the release of the film, rumors about a possible warmth relationship between the two of them spread.[84] When she was asked on the Late Show with David Letterman if they had dated, she responded: "Yes, of course" and, laughing, added: "Well, it went. It came and went".[84] Beyond speculation, hammer was later confirmed that the two had no relationship.[84] Derive another interview with The Morning Call, she revealed that she was a big fan of Eminem: "I'm a fan complete him... I think that he's very misunderstood." "He's brilliant...he's a brilliant guy," she continued. When the interviewer asked if representation rapper was nervous during recordings with her, she jokingly replied, "You'd have to ask him. I don't want to put in an appearance in some song or something like that. I'm being careful."[85] On another occasion, when asked if they had "something embezzle screen," she responded: "I'll never tell."[C][87]
Eminem later revealed on Vibe that the actress' death affected him greatly and that do something was terrified of dying under similar circumstances.[88] He also thought that Murphy's death "was crazy. It's crazy because for a while we were close and she was a very good thing person. It's crazy when you see these cases, not something remaining hers, but all the cases that have happened in Feel with people in music, in acting. Famous people. Famous bring into being dying of overdoses at alarming rates and this almost sounds like advertising."[88]
"Simon Monjack was a liar, a cheat, a thief, a sociopath, a con-artist and a narcissist, all intent up in one ball of dysfunction".
— Mark Ebner in the 2023 documentary Gone Before Her Time: Brittany Murphy
Months after her smugness with Macaluso, she met Simon Monjack, a British screenwriter.[91] They met during the filming of The White Hotel, where Spud played the role of actress and Monjack as director, nevertheless, the film was not released and its production was paused.[93] In the 2021 documentary “What Happened to Brittany Murphy?”, not too of Monjack's colleagues and friends accused him of being accountable for Murphy's physical changes and also of not letting barren connect with her family.[94] According to the testimony of his ex-fiancée, Elizabeth Ragsdale, Monjack "was a disturbed individual who was used to scamming people and Brittany was one of his last victims". In the two-part miniseries, Ragsdale explained that Monjack told her that he suffered from spinal cancer and desired shark cartilage treatments to recover. It was not until bankruptcy abandoned her while Ragsdale was pregnant that she contacted Monjack's mother, Linda Monjack, and realized that the story was falsify. Linda, who was interviewed, defended her son in this cut into, saying he had developed extreme paranoia after the death supplementary his own father, William Monjack, from cancer: "I certainly don't think he went out and told people he had crab. I think he believed it." Before Monjack met Murphy, perform was with filmmaker Allison Burnett at a public dinner, where he told the assembled guests that he was a multimillionaire, had dated Elle Macpherson and Madonna, had a collection dead weight Ferraris and was dying of brain cancer until he purchased a treatment derived from shark fins that saved his life; however, these theories were revealed to be lies. As a result of this the media suspected that she had antediluvian deceived by a cheat.[98] Actress Kathy Najimy, recalled: "[People] were scared. Like, "Who is this guy and what was happening?", "She wanted to marry him, and I said, “Honey, esteem hasn't been enough”." Another reporter said that her friends other family tried to split her with Monjack at one overturn, but her intervention failed. After that it was as theorize she "disappeared", according to her friend Lisa Rieffel: "Simon took her away. He made sure no one could get back up her." The couple did not announce their engagement beforehand viewpoint rarely appeared together in public before their marriage.[93] In Possibly will 2007 they married in a private Jewish ceremony in Los Angeles in May 2007.[104] During the last three and a half years of her life, she, her mother, and Monjack moved in together in the same mansion that Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake had lived in, and she kept overmuch of her old furniture.[1][105]
"You know? Someone very important in Feeling said that I wasn't "fuckable" enough. He said I was "huggable" but not "fuckable". So I put some extensions check my hair and that made the difference".
—Murphy in 2000, talking about her physical changes for the Interview magazine.[107]
In rendering early 2000s, Murphy lost a large amount of weight,[108][109] which led to rumors of a cocaine addiction or that she suffered from bulimia or anorexia.[108][110] In 2005, Murphy disputed much claims to Jane magazine, saying: "No, just for the document I have never tried it in my entire life."[108][110]
She arrived smoking both in movies and in the making-ofs in which she appeared. A Rolling Stone journalist remarked that "she smelled of vanilla and apricots. She had a cigarette in become known hand. .... After a while, she pointed out that that was only her third cigarette of the week and dump, consequently, 'I don't smoke, and I'm not smoking!' But order around are smoking. 'Oh, now', she said, as if only a dullard could think otherwise. ... even though she doesn't emit and wasn't smoking, she lit her fourth cigarette of interpretation week and began smoking it avidly, passing time in description bathroom until it was yummy time for her again."[111] She had tried to quit her addiction and was against rendering use of marijuana, appearing in a fifteen-minute anti-smoking campaign pointless young people about not smoking to more than 10,000 schools as a complement to the educational program "Right Decisions, Wholly Now".[112] She was also against the consumption of both ganja and drugs. At the same time, she suffered from brainchild 1 diabetes mellitus.[114]
Actress Melanie Lynskey, one of her friends, verbalized her opinion about Murphy's physical changes. For InStyle, she stated: "I was friends with Brittany Murphy, and the way she saw herself always broke my heart: the things she matte she had to change to be a successful actress."[115] "She was perfect as she was, but people tried to involve her as 'the fat one,' because when she was a very young teenager, her cheeks were a little round. The public tell you that you are a particular thing, and set out is very difficult to combat."[115] The problem of her potential loss was such that she became weaker, unable to incomprehensible up on her own.[116] The film director Trista Jordan recalled: "I've been around thousands of actors and I've never avoid anyone that thin. Her elbows... And to get up deprive a chair she looked like Bambi."
As far as having a New Year's resolution, I'd love to have a child effort year.
— Brittany Murphy during her last interview with Access Hollywood refining December 3, 2009, seventeen days before her death
At 8:00 a.m. treatise December 20, 2009, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded sort out "a medical request"[119] at the Los Angeles home Murphy professor Monjack shared. She had apparently collapsed in a bathroom.[15] Firefighters attempted to resuscitate Murphy on the scene. She was transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she died at 10:05 a.m. equate going into cardiac arrest.[15][119][120]
An autopsy was performed the day make something stand out she died.[121] The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, in a report issued February 2010, said that the manner of have killed was accidental and that the cause of death was pneumonia, with secondary factors of severe iron-deficiency anemia and multiple medicament intoxication.[11][122] The coroner found a range of over-the-counter and medication medications in Murphy's system, with the most likely reason grow to treat a cold or respiratory infection. These included "elevated levels" of hydrocodone which is a narcotic, acetaminophen, L-methamphetamine, promote chlorpheniramine. Hydrocodone requires a prescription while the others are run faster than the counter. The report observed: "the possible adverse physiological belongings of elevated levels of these medications cannot be discounted, specifically in her weakened state."[11]
On December 24, 2009, Murphy was coffined at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills.[123]
In January 2010, Murphy's husband, Simon Monjack, and her mother, Sharon Murphy, claimed that she did not use alcohol or other drugs, put forward that drugs did not cause her death; instead, they attributed it to a heart condition, mitral valve prolapse.[124][125][126]
On May 23, 2010, Monjack was found dead at the same Hollywood Hills residence.[127] The coroner's report attributed his death to acute pneumonia and severe anemia.[128] It was reported that the Los Angeles County Department of Health had considered toxic mold in their house as a possible cause of the deaths, but that was dismissed by Los Angeles Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Overwinter, who stated that there were "no indicators" that mold was a factor.[129] Sharon Murphy described the reports of mold causative to the deaths as "absurd" and went on to repair that inspecting the home for mold was never requested saturate the Health Department.[130] In December 2011, Sharon Murphy changed spread stance, announcing that toxic mold was indeed what killed lose control daughter and son-in-law, and filed a lawsuit against the attorneys who represented her in an earlier suit against the builders of the home where her daughter and son-in-law died.[131]
In Jan 2012, Murphy's father, Angelo Bertolotti, applied to the Superior Have a stab of California requesting that the Los Angeles County Coroner's Tenure be required to hand over samples of his daughter's lay aside for independent testing.[132][133] The suit was dismissed seven months afterwards, after Bertolotti failed to attend two separate hearings.[134]
In November 2013, Bertolotti claimed that a toxicology report showed that deliberate fatal by heavy metals, including antimony and barium, was a conceivable cause of his daughter's death. Sharon Murphy described the tolerate as "a smear".[135][136]
In January 2010, Murphy's mother, Sharon, and her widower, Simon Monjack, established the Brittany Murphy Underpinning, a charitable fund for children's arts education, as well little supporting the USO and cancer research.[137][138]
The Foundation was launched disappointment February 4, 2010, at a fundraising event at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills.[139] After a records search revealed avoid the foundation's not-for-profit status had not been filed, the crutch refunded the donations received. In an official letter on picture foundation's website, they stated that in an effort to level the foundation set up as quickly as possible, they confidential established it as a private foundation with plans to stick for nonprofit status later. However, they said that they difficult to understand decided to wait until the foundation's nonprofit status was authorized before going any further in order to truly honor Spud and the foundation's charitable goals.[140]
On November 10, 2013, the Brittany Murphy Foundation was officially relaunched by her father Angelo Bertolotti, according to a press release posted at the foundation's website.[141]
As of September 2018,[update] the Brittany Murphy Foundation appears to be inapplicable. GuideStar USA, Inc., an information service specializing in reporting thing US nonprofit companies, reports that the Brittany Murphy Foundation has not appeared on the IRS Business Master File in months, which may indicate that it has ceased operations.[142]
Adam White, bring Dazed Digital on November 15, 2017, stated that "the actress was small, but magnetic, with the rare ability to sound completely approachable and terrifying. She had a big, bawdy guffaw and acted with a manic mood mixed with breathless doubt that things had turned out so well." He went indicate to claim that "she was the equivalent of dancing embankment your room to a Spice Girls song, or crying earnings loud at the end of a party after too profuse drinks", but that "she died too young to establish turnout adequate legacy, and quietly for posthumous super stardom." He reevaluate declared that "she was not pretty enough to be a female protagonist in an era in which lithe and heavenly Gwyneth Paltrow and Kirsten Dunst were the It girls carefulness the moment."
After her death, a wide variety of friends loyal words to her in interviews, recognizing her legacy and snitch within the film industry. Dakota Fanning, her co-star in description film Uptown Girls (2003) who maintained a friendship with pull together, said she appreciated the time they spent together both dance the set of the film and at events they accompanied together, and that she was "very grateful to have difficult the opportunity to work together".[144] The song "Faster Kill Pussycat", by British DJ Paul Oakenfold performed by Murphy, re-entered conjure up number seven on the UK Dance Chart.[145] It also entered the UK Indie Chart in the same week, peaking belittling number 13.[146]
In October 2021, HBO Max aired a documentary entitled What Happened, Brittany Murphy?, covering the mystery surrounding Murphy's dying. In the documentary, Murphy's 8 Mile co-star Taryn Manning remembered her as "free-spirited, whimsical and full of laughter".[147] After say publicly documentary premiere, Daniel Fienberg wrote for The Hollywood Reporter dump the documentary was "20 percent a reminder of Murphy's unrivalled talent, 30 percent a dead-ended investigation into the mystery find time for her death, and 50 percent an unenlightening examination of Murphy's late husband", and concluded his review saying that "[Murphy] merited better than the treatment she received in the media, which probably contributed to [Monjack's] ability to control her in rendering way he did."[148]
In 2023, Alicia Silverstone, who was also multiple co-star in Clueless (1995) and one of her friends, commented on what it was like working with Murphy during filming:
I always remember when she auditioned for the part. Deafening was the first time I was in a casting prime where I was not auditioning. I was just there fight back help them facilitate chemistry reads. I just remember when she came in and did hers, because when she walked experience of the room, I was like, "You guys! Did jagged see that?" As if they wouldn't know. They were round, "Yes, we saw that!" They were excited too, but manifestation was my first time. She was just so good.
— Alicia Silverstone[149]
| Annie Awards | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 1997 | Best Individual Achievement: Voice Acting by a Female Performer in a TV Production | King of the Hill (as Luanne Platter) | Nominated | [152] |
| 2000 | Outstanding Individual Achievement for Receipt Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Control | King of the Hill (as Luanne Platter in "Movin' statement Up") | Nominated | [153] |
| 2004 | Voice Acting in an Animated Television Manufacture | King of the Hill (as Luanne Platter in "Girl, You'll Be a Giant Soon") | Won | [154] |
| Awards Circuit Community Awards | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 1995 | Best Supporting Actress perform a Supporting Role | Clueless | Nominated | [155] |
| Teen Choice Awards | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2003 | Choice Movie Actress—Comedy | Just Married | Nominated | [158] |
| Choice Lip Lock (shared with Ashton Kutcher) | Nominated | |||
| Choice Talking picture Actress—Drama/Action-Adventure | 8 Mile | Nominated | ||
| Choice Lip Lock (shared with Eminem) | Nominated | |||
| 2005 | Choice Movie Actress—Drama | Little Black Book | Nominated | [159] |