Everything about Donna Murphy totally explained
Donna Murphy (born
March 7,
1958) is a two-time
Tony Award-winning
American stage, film, and television
actress.
Biography
Murphy was born in Corona,
New York, the daughter of Jean (
née Fink) and Robert Murphy (an aerospace engineer). 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 (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.
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