Brittany Murphy Overview

This Atlanta-born actress' parents split up when she was three and she then relocated with her mother to Edison, New Jersey. Murphy began putting on shows when she was a toddler and was acting in regional theater productions by the age of nine. As a preteen, Murphy hired a manager and began making Pizza Hut and Skittles candy commercials before heading to Hollywood with her mother in 1991. Murphy landed a role in her first series, the short-lived sitcom Drexell's Class that year. The... See All