Donna Murphy
Donna Murphy was born in New York City, New York, United States on March 7th, 1959 and is the Stage Actress. At the age of 65, Donna Murphy biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Donna Murphy (born March 7, 1959) is an American actress and singer best known for her appearances in musical theater.
She has twice been nominated for Best Actress in a Musical, as Fosca in Passion (1994–95) and Anna Leonowens in The King and I (1996–97).
Ruth Sherwood, Lotte Lenya in LoveMusik (2005), and Bubbie/Raisel in The People in the Picture (2011) were both selected for her roles as Ruth Sherwood in Wonderful Town (2003), Lotte Lenya (2007), and Bubbie/Raisel in The People in the Picture (2011). Murphy made her Broadway debut as a replacement in the 1979 musical They're Playing Our Song.
Her other stage appearances include the original off-Broadway productions of Song of Singapore (1991) and Hello Again (1993), as well as a Bette Midler substitute in a Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly! (2017–18).
In 1997, she received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special for her role in Someone Had to Be Benny, an episode of the HBO series Lifestories: Families in Crisis.
Anij in Star Trek: Insurrection (1998); Rosalie Octavius in Spider-Man 2 (2004); Mother Gothel in the animated film Tangled (2010); and one of the government secretaries in The Bourne Legacy (2012).
Early life and education
Murphy, the eldest of seven children, was born in Corona, Queens, New York, and Robert Murphy, an aerospace engineer. Murphy is of Irish, French, German, and Czech descent. Her family and her extended family migrated to Long Island, New York, near Hauppauge. She pleaded for voice lessons at age three and performed in Hauppauge as a child. She later moved to Topsfield, Massachusetts, and graduated from Masconomet Regional High School in 1977.
Personal life
Murphy worked with actor and singer Shawn Elliott from 1990 to his death in March 2016. Elliott's two daughters' stepmother is her. They adopted a Guatemalan baby in 2005.
Career
Murphy dropped out of the New York University drama program in her sophomore year, when she was introduced to understudy the three backup singers in the 1979 Broadway musical They're Playing Our Song. "I took a leave of absence at the end of my sophomore year," Murphy said in a 2007 interview. "I wanted to audition without reducing classes." She has also studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
She has appeared in several off-Broadway productions, including the musical Francis at the Metropolitan Theater in 1981, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Birds of Paradise (Roundabout Theatre), Privates on Parade in 1989, the Michael John LaChiusa's musical Themyrondra, a 1995 performance at the Lincoln Center Mitzi Newhouse Theater in San Francisco, and Helen at the 2002 Sydney Theatre. She appeared in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods at The Public Theater in Los Angeles as the Witch in 2012.
She appeared on Broadway in 1981-1980 as an understudy in The Human Comedy (1984), and she appeared in various roles in The Mysterious of Edwin Drood (1985 to 1989). In Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's Little Shop of Horrors, she also appeared as Audrey. She appeared in Stephen Sondheim's and James Lapine's Passion in 1994, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role. Twelve Dreams, Lapine's revival, appeared a year later. She appeared Anna Leonowens in The King and I revival in 1996, as well as recording a cast album. The role earned her her second Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Ruth Sherwood appeared in a revival of Wonderful Town from 2003 to 2005 (having previously appeared in the New York City Center Encores). The 2000 staged concert of the musical, Tony Award-winning Actress in a Musical, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical. Lotte Lenya, opposite Michael Cerveris as Kurt Weill, received Tony and Drama Desk Awards in 2007. She appeared in the 2007 New York City Center Encores! Follies' concert as Phyllis was staged in Follies. She appeared in The People in the Picture, a new musical, which opened on April 28, 2011, and ended on June 19, 2011. For her part in the production, she was nominated for a 2011 Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Musical.
She appeared in Hello, Dolly, a Broadway revival. On Tuesday evenings and other rare performances, Dolly Levi, the alternate to Bette Midler, appeared. On January 7, 2018, she appeared at her last appearance.Murphy returned to Hello, Dolly!
When Midler revived the musical before it closed on August 25, 2018, it was for six performances (July 22, 29, August 5, 19, and 20).In Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), Murphy's film Star Trek: Insurrection (1999), as Betty, a surgical research assistant in Darren Aronofsky's film The Fountain (2006), and Scarlett Johansson's mother in The Nanny Diaries (2007), three of Murphy's roles included Anij, Captain Jean-Luc Picard's love interest. "Mother Knows Best" was the song she performed in the animated film Tangled (2010) as Mother Gothel. In Higher Ground (2011) and Marie in Dark Horse (2011), Kathleen, Vera Farmiga's mother, appeared. Dita Mandy, the British government secretary, appeared in The Bourne Legacy in 2012.
Murphy appeared in NBC soap opera Another World from 1989 to 1991 as District Attorney Morgan Graves. She received an Emmy award in 1997 for her role as Armando Agrelo in "Someone Had to be Benny" (1996), an episode of HBO's Family in Crisis. Abigail Adams in Liberty, a recurring role in a television series, is included in a new one. The American Revolution (1997–1996), Murder One (1995–1996), Law & Order as Carla Tyrell in a recurring role (2000), Hack (2002–2003), Trust Me (2009), and Quantico (2017). Le Vian chocolate diamonds series for Jared Jewelry is one of her voice-overs in television commercials. Caroline Schermerhorn Astor appeared on HBO's The Gilded Age in 2022.