Actress Brittany Murphy dead at 32

[classichummus]

Actress Brittany Murphy dead at 32
Newspaper: Cardiac arrest claimed life of ‘8 Mile’ star
BREAKING NEWS
msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 1:44 p.m. PT, Sun., Dec . 20, 2009

Brittany Murphy, the actress who got her start in the sleeper hit "Clueless" and rose to stardom in "8 Mile," has died in Los Angeles. She was 32.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Spokeswoman Sally Stewart said Murphy died at 10:04 a.m. Sunday. She would not provide a cause of death, or any other information. The L.A. Times is reporting that cardiac arrest was the cause of death.

The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call at 8 a.m. Sunday from a home that is listed as belonging to British screenwriter Simon Monjack, who is married to Murphy, spokesman Devon Gale said. Gale said one person was transported to a hospital.

Messages left for Murphy's manager, agent and publicist by The Associated Press weren't immediately returned.

Born Nov. 10, 1977 in Atlanta, Murphy grew up in New Jersey and later moved with her mother to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

Did voice work in addition to acting
Her career started in the early 1990s with small roles in television series, commercials and movies. She is best known for parts in "Girl, Interrupted," "Clueless" and "8 Mile."

Her on-screen roles declined in recent years, but Murphy's voice gave life to numerous animated characters, including Luanne Platter on more than 200 episodes of Fox's "King of the Hill" and Gloria the penguin in "Happy Feet."

She is due to appear in Sylvester Stallone's upcoming film, "The Expendables," set for release next year.

Her role in "8 Mile" led to more recognition, Murphy told The Associated Press in 2003. "That changed a lot," she said. "That was the difference between people knowing my first and last name as opposed to not."

Murphy credited her mother, Sharon, with being a key to her success.

"When I asked my mom to move to California, she sold everything and moved out here for me," Murphy told the AP in 2003. "I was really grateful to have grown up in an environment that was conducive to creating and didn't stifle any of that. She always believed in me."

She dated Ashton Kutcher, who costarred with Murphy in 2003's romantic comedy "Just Married."

Kutcher tweeted Sunday morning about Murphy's death: "2day the world lost a little piece of sunshine," Kutcher wrote. "My deepest condolences go out 2 Brittany's family, her husband, & her amazing mother Sharon."
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Pretty sad, she was kinda hot.

 

[classichummus]

There is also this from the LA Times:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...eath-of-actress-brittany-murphy----polic.html

L.A. police investigate death of Brittany Murphy
December 20, 2009 | 12:51 pm

Los Angeles police have opened an investigation into circumstances surrounding the death of actress Brittany Murphy.

Police have been dispatched to Cedars-Sinai and to the Los Angeles home where Murphy, 32, went into cardiac arrest earlier today. Police sources emphasized that their inquiry was preliminary, adding they could not say whether it would point to any criminal conduct. [Note: An earlier version of this post incorrectly said the house was located in West Hollywood.]

L.A. city firefighters responded to a call from the home in the 1800 block of Rising Glen Road. Murphy was transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.

Born in Atlanta, Murphy moved to Burbank with her mother at age 13. Her film break came in the movie "Clueless" (1995), in which she starred opposite Alicia Silverstone.

Murphy has made dozens of other film appearances, including in "Girl Interrupted" (1999), "8 Mile" (2002), "The Dead Girl" (2006), and "Across the Hall" (2009). She also was featured as the voice of Luanne in the animated TV series "King of the Hill."

Murphy specialized in playing characters who were troubled teenagers or mentally disturbed, according to a biography on industry website Internet Movie Data Base.

Murphy was married in 2007 to British screenwriter Simon Monjack, the website said.

-- Andrew Blankstein and Ching-Ching Ni

Photo: Brittany Murphy at New York Fashion Week in February 2008. Credit: Peter Kramer / Associated Press

 

[SuN]

She was so cute

 

[SuN]

 

[Fuddlemiff]

I liked her in 8 Mile. According to people on IMDb (who cannot be relied upon as a source, LA Times) she had a meth addiction, so chalk another one up on the list of celebs who died from drugs.

 

[CaptainWacky]

The trolls are really out on force on IMDB. It's kind of sad that the first thing some people think about when a celebrity dies is "okay, I need to get online and joke about this!"

And most of the jokes are unfunny too.

She was good as Luanna in King of the Hill. With the Manger Babies.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Yeah, though I must admit I smirked at this guy's sense of compassion.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005261/board/nest/153807552

 

[CaptainWacky]

I find it a bit creepy that guys on the female celebrity board I visit (yes, I'm a bit creepy too) are posting hot pics of her. Are they going to have a memorial wank or something?

 

[Donovan]

The trolls are really out on force on IMDB. It's kind of sad that the first thing some people think about when a celebrity dies is "okay, I need to get online and joke about this!"

And most of the jokes are unfunny too.

She was good as Luanna in King of the Hill. With the Manger Babies.

I think it's more a kneejerk reaction for some people. When the Challenger blew up I heard jokes that same night from people where I worked, and that was far more tragic than this. People tend to get jaded when they are subjected to endless reports of some celebrity death. Personally, I think it's sad when somebody dies young but no sadder than thousands of nameless people who die every single day.

We should care more about this one because she made a lot of money in movies before she died? I'll pass, thanks. It's called the finish line; every single one of us is headed there, and some of us are lucky enough to have a good time on the way. Brittany Murphy was blessed enough to have a pretty good run, even as short as it was...

I don't mourn Brittany Murphy because I didn't know her; I'd truthfully feel worse if it were somebody from this message board who I'd interacted with than some movie star whose path never once crossed mine.

(For the record, my posts today were making fun of the number of times this news was posted on this board, not the death itself. But still, let's not go crazy weeping for strangers, okay?)

End rant: just trying to play devil's advocate and add a little counter perspective.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

I find it a bit creepy that guys on the female celebrity board I visit (yes, I'm a bit creepy too) are posting hot pics of her. Are they going to have a memorial wank or something?

The entertainment sites are doing pictorials too, and many of them are only including pix of thin, blonde, red-carpet-ready Brittney, and not normal, stocky, Clueless-era Britney, as if that part of her life isn't worthy to look at.

I never thought she looked healthy as a blonde twig. She always looked sickly to me; maybe it was those huge swollen eyes. She always seemed to look either drugged, bulimic, or both. Such a shame...

 

[Mentalist]

I'd truthfully feel worse if it were somebody from this message board who I'd interacted with than some movie star whose path never once crossed mine.

I agree to an extent. I knew her from 8 Mile as well and thought she was pretty good in it. I saw the news earlier about her passing and felt bad for her and her family in the sense that it's tragic when somebody dies that young regardless and I had spent a very tiny portion of my life seeing her work in a movie (8 Mile) so for totally illogical and irrational reasons it becomes slightly more relevant than the thousands that die every day even though it's really an illusion.

When Michael Jackson died it fucked me up because I was a huge fan of his and he influenced my life in a major way. I didn't know him and never met him but it is what it is and I couldn't give a flying fuck what other people think. I mourned for Deforest Kelly and James Doohan as well for similar reasons. Because even though I never met them they meant something to me.

As human beings we can't have an emotional response to every single death that occurs. Because unless you're a totally cold and heartless bastard without any empathy it would destroy all of us. We all read about the latest 100+ civilians blown up by a car bomb in Iraq and then get on with our day because we simply don't have the energy to mourn and feel the loss of people involved in every tragedy that happens. (we can be sad that it's happened but we can't mourn). Basically we have to apply loss to ourselves and whether it impacts us. It's how all people work.

Anyway...


R.I.P Brittany Murphy.

 

[Gagh]

If it was drugs, I still can't understand that somebody so talented and so young would want to fritter their life away. She clearly didn't look well when somebody posted a pic in The Minefield a while back, so looked utterly smashed in. I guess seeing as I've never been addicted to anything (maybe with the exception of Monster Munch & Fallout 3), I find it all the harder to decide what to make of it.

Oh, and she could hold a decent tune, too.

 

[Donovan]

I agree to an extent. I knew her from 8 Mile as well and thought she was pretty good in it. I saw the news earlier about her passing and felt bad for her and her family in the sense that it's tragic when somebody dies that young regardless and I had spent a very tiny portion of my life seeing her work in a movie (8 Mile) so for totally illogical and irrational reasons it becomes slightly more relevant than the thousands that die every day even though it's really an illusion.

When Michael Jackson died it fucked me up because I was a huge fan of his and he influenced my life in a major way. I didn't know him and never met him but it is what it is and I couldn't give a flying fuck what other people think. I mourned for Deforest Kelly and James Doohan as well for similar reasons. Because even though I never met them they meant something to me.

As human beings we can't have an emotional response to every single death that occurs. Because unless you're a totally cold and heartless bastard without any empathy it would destroy all of us. We all read about the latest 100+ civilians blown up by a car bomb in Iraq and then get on with our day because we simply don't have the energy to mourn and feel the loss of people involved in every tragedy that happens. (we can be sad that it's happened but we can't mourn). Basically we have to apply loss to ourselves and whether it impacts us. It's how all people work.

Anyway...


R.I.P Brittany Murphy.

Agreed, but I think that's also why you see tasteless jokes when stuff like this happens; it's a way people use to separate themselves from something painful or uncomfortable.

Michael Jackson's death was sad in that everyone saw it coming over the last few years and no one could stop it. The guy's life had train wrecked. That in itself is a tragedy. I personally apply the same process to events like mass murder caused by military struggle, because I see it played out on the news and I am helpless to stop it. We all find different reasons to mourn, and different things to attach our emotions too. But that also leads to hurt feelings and misunderstandings when people interact who have different emotions about something you personally feel strongly about...