Donna Murphy

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Actress • Singer

Birth Date: March 7, 1959

Age: 65 years old

Birth Place: Corona, New York

The petite, brunette Murphy garnered critical kudos and a handful of awards, including a 1994 Best Actress Tony, for her intense, dramatic portrayal of Fosca in the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine stage musical "Passion." Portraying an ugly woman wracked by an unnamed illness who falls in love with a handsome soldier, she mesmerized audiences with the raw power of her performance. Murphy had honed her craft in the Broadway and off-Broadway arena moving from the chorus ("They're Playing Our Song") to playing leading roles ("Drood," "Song of Singapore").

She made her feature debut as a tough cop investigating a murder in William Friedkin's "Jade" (1995). That same year, she brilliantly delineated an unhappily married woman whose ex-husband becomes embroiled in a murder investigation in the ABC series "Murder One." In 1996, she returned to the stage co-starring opposite Lou Diamond Phillips in a revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King & I" for which she earned a second Tony Award as Lead Actress in a Musical.

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Series
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88%

Brilliant Minds: Extras

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2024

The Gilded AgeStream

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Caroline Schermerhorn Astor
Series
2022
86%

Donna Murphy: Mother Knows Best (From Tangled/Sing-Along)

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Show
2020

The Bravest KnightStream

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Trulla
Series
2019

Der schöne Schein

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Maria
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2019

Anastasia: Once Upon a Time

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Yara the Enchantress
Movie
2019

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Series
2017
55%

Mercy StreetStream

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Jane Green
Series
2016
73%

No Pay, Nudity

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Pearl
Movie
2016

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Rebecca Sherman
Series
2015
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Series
2014
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The BlacklistStream

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Sophia Quayle
Series
2013
91%

House of Versace

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Maria
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2013

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Darlene Garetti
Series
2012
33%

Made in JerseyStream

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Series
2012
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Dita Mandy
Movie
2012
56%

Someone Had to Be Benny

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2011

Higher Ground

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Kathleen
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2011

Dark Horse

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Marie
Movie
2011

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Mother Gothel
Movie
2010
89%

The Good WifeStream

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Judge Alice Adelson
Series
2009
93%

Royal PainsStream

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Berta
Series
2009

Trust Me

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Series
2009
52%

The MentalistStream

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2008

Sherman's Way

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Evelyn Black
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2008

The Nanny Diaries

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Judy
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2007

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Eve
Series
2006
97%

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Blair
Series
2006
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Betty
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2006
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Judy Jonas
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2006
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2006

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Rosie Octavius
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2004
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2002

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Maureen Pagolis
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2001

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2001

What About Joan

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Dr. Ruby Stern
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2001

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2000

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Juliette Simone
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2000
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2000

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Dr. Raye Massey
Series
1999
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1999

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1998

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1998
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1998

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1997
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Michael Hayes

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1997

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1997
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Passion

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Fosca
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1996

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1995
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JadeStream

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Karen Heller
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1995
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1990

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Franchise
1972

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