Donna Murphy

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Donna Murphy

Born March 7, 1958 (1958-03-07) (age 50)
Corona, New York, United States
Spouse(s) Shawn Murphy
(1990–present)

Donna Murphy (born March 7, 1958) is a two-time Tony Award-winning American stage, film, and television actress.

[edit] Biography

Murphy was born in Corona, New York, the daughter of Jean (née Fink) and Robert Murphy (an aerospace engineer).[1] She moved to Hauppauge, LI, New York and then to Topsfield, Massachusetts and graduated from Masconomet Regional High School in 1977. After high school, Murphy went on to study at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, majoring in Drama.

Murphy is perhaps best known to film viewers for her role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard's love interest "Anij" in Star Trek: Insurrection (1998).

In 1994, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Fosca in Stephen Sondheim's and James Lapine's Passion. In 1996, she appeared as Anna Leonowens in the Broadway revival of The King and I alongside Lou Diamond Philips. The role earned her another Tony for Best Actress in a Musical.

She also appeared in a revival of Wonderful Town (from 2003 to 2005) and in Lovemusik (2007) as Lotte Lenya, opposite fellow Tony Winner Michael Cerveris as Kurt Weill.

Murphy's recent film roles include The Nanny Diaries as Scarlett Johansson's mother and Spider-Man 2 as Rosalie Octavius, wife of Dr. Otto Octavius, the movie's villain.

She has been married to actor and singer Shawn Elliott since 1990.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Donna Murphy Biography (1958-)

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Preceded by
Chita Rivera
for Kiss of the Spider Woman--The Musical		 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical
1994
for Passion		 Succeeded by
Glenn Close
for Sunset Boulevard
Preceded by
Glenn Close
for Sunset Boulevard		 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical
1996
for The King and I		 Succeeded by
Bebe Neuwirth
for Chicago
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